This evening was the only non-operatic evening I attended during the Edinburgh International Festival, and yet the program was composed so sensitively by conductor Jonathan Nott, and performed so well by the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra, that I felt at the end as if I had witnessed a dramatic production of the first class. Before the concert, the logic of the programming wasn't obvious to me, but as the evening progressed the idea became clear -we were being taken on a journey from death to life, from nothingness to creation.
As the audience entered the hall, we were confronted by signs reading "The audience is kindly request not to applaud between the works performed in the first half of tonight's concert." I was very worried -in the past when I had been present at concerts were such an announcement was made (not to mention at every…
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