Philadelphia

Sorry I've been gone. This semester is busy.

A while back, Francisco and I got community rush tickets to the symphony. In between standing in line to get the tickets and the actual concert, we had some time to wander around. We stumbled on this Cold War airplane-turned-greenhouse.

The concert was great, plus there were local Philadelphia connections to the music:

Richard Strauss’s Oboe Concerto had its genesis during a lengthy meeting between former Philadelphia Orchestra Principal Oboe John de Lancie and the composer. De Lancie, who was stationed in Germany at the end of World War II, suggested that Strauss compose a concerto for oboe and orchestra. While de Lancie did not give the work’s premiere, he did perform the Concerto in The Philadelphia Orchestra’s first performance, in 1964. Principal Oboe Richard Woodhams, a student of de Lancie’s, now carries this connection forward.