Friday night we drove across the river to the south side of the city (merrily paying tolls) to see the Richmond Symphony perform at a church. Since the city decided to rip up nearly every building in the downtown area to build new buildings and parking lots (which begs the question if no one was interested in downtown with the old, crumbling buildings will they be all “ooooh shiny new buildings, let’s have dinner downtown), the Symphony has been itinerant.
Friday’s show was part of the Bach Festival with music from J.S. Bach, a segment by Schoenberg and Villa-Lobos, and then ending with more Bach. The final segment was the double violin concerto and one of the violinists was a thirteen year old who played beautifully. As we all stood and clapped, the violinists came back to the front of the stage to take another bow. I sort of wanted them to break into Devil Went Down To Georgia for an encore. Yeah, you can’t take me anywhere.