Apparently, my religion prof. is a big wig in Salamanca, and he got invitation only tickets to the Castilla y León orchestra concert celebrating Salamanca's 20th anniversary as a patron city of humanity. Any way he gave us tickets to the concert, which was incredible. The theme was the extremes of Europe, and the concert was songs by Spanish and Russian composers.
The concert was:
Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov's orchestration of Modest Mussorgsky's "Night on Bald Mountain"
which was connected to Spain because of the witchcraft traditions in Spain that inspired the piece
Pablo Sarasate's (a Spanish composer for the violin) "Nouvelle fantasie sur Faust de Gound" and "Russian Songs"
which was played by an amazing young violinist
and, finally Tchaikovsky's 6th Symphony, which is not at all related to Spain.
Anyway the concert was amazing, especially the Sarasate. The soloist even played an encore. It was definitely a great way to end the semester.
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that sounds really cool
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