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[lizziec]

I'm currently watching the musical version of The War of the Worlds in concert, conducted by Jeff Wayne himself (available here on DVD) and it's brilliant to watch (with the possible exception of the freaky head of Richard Burton). The martian's machines are just right, exactly how I imagined them :D Not all silly like the Tom Cruise stupidness.

The bit that is actually making my heart swell with pride and excitement (probably as a violin player myself with several years of orchestra playing behind me) is seeing the strings sections playing with their bows perfectly in synch - using the same amounts of the bow, going in the same direction as each other as exactly the same time. It's just an awesome sight (and as a strings player I appreciate how difficult it is ;))

I'm also rather impressed with their magical digital music/electronic music stands. So much easier and neater than the (necessarily) dog eared copies and crappy fally down music stands I had to deal with.

Comments

[red-pill.livejournal.com]

my fave is the girl who knows 12 realy strange istraiments. and the isntraments themselfs. its like, a xilophone, and then realy wired stuff.

[pornqueenie.livejournal.com]

I totally agree! I went to see it at the 02 before Xmas it was awesome
The machines were so fantastic! And all the orchestra got A HUGEEEEE applause

Jeff Wayne was soooo flamboyant and the holographic Richard Burton was soo cool!

The girl, pill talks about was awesome, she just jumps around for instrument to instrument!

But everyone there looked so happy, playing that is!

xx