Fantastic Symphony

In the afternoon Mary Beth and I went to the symphony. They did two pieces. First was a recent one called Philharmonia Fantastique by Mason Bates. It's synced with video and has kind of a Fantasia sort of thing going on. It's sort of for kids as an education thing about explaining the parts of the orchestra (though not explicitly, just through the sounds going on and the imagery in the video). There were also apparently some electroacoustic pre-recorded sounds, but I think they may have just been a few sound effects in the video, I didn't really notice anything particular along that line. The video kind of had a mid-century art but with modern updates feel. The music was good. Then the last part was Symphony Fantastique by Hector Berlioz. That was really good and pretty nuts to watch the orchestra play. There was a guest conductor and he seemed good. Anyway, it was a good time. Not a whole lot else. Though I realize I forgot to mention in my last post that I got a couple of cds in the mail on Saturday: The Corrupting Sea: Symphony of a Radical II and Transverse: It's Broken.