![]() ![]() The weather calmed down appropriately for the beautiful calm and serenity of Debussy’s Clair de Lune as orchestrated by André Caplet. NSO Wolf Trap Festival conductor Emil de Cou meanwhile used the forced intermission to hone his already considerable comedic stand-up skills – much to the amusement of the crowd.Ĭ. At least on the inside, the audience’s mood was not the least (forgive me) dampened… despite the spray being felt by even those sitting in the very center of the orchestra seating. Amidst more thunder and lightning, the music started to be the soundtrack to the excitement outside and accompanied by thuds from the speaker systems and flickering lamps, the work finished only seconds before a total power outage left the stage and audience in the dark, causing the audience only to redouble its cheers. But it couldn’t have been a more appropriate scene to think of as the sluices of heaven opened wide. ![]() Paul Dukas’s claim to fame, The Sorcerer’s Apprentice, is more likely to evoke memories of Mickey Mouse frantically trying to control the flood his controlled-uncontrollable broom-servants create, rather than Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s poem upon which it is all based, Der Zauberlehrling. The performance of the Summer-NSO led by Emil de Cou was beautifully and dramatically accentuated by lightning – although the enjoyment of that show was probably predicated on having a claim to seats under the Filene Center’s roof. ![]() The threat of thunderstorms may not have helped either – and as if to reinforce that there is a certain inherent risk in opting for outside seating, a thunder slowly shuddered into Paul Dukas’s Sorcerer’s Apprentice. ![]() area was probably to blame for Wolf Trap not being sold out – despite everyone's favorite, Renée Fleming, performing on Thursday night. ![]()
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