Joshua Bell

Yesterday, Tuesday, May 19th, I had the wonderful opportunity of listening to Joshua Bell with the Oregon Symphony in the Smith auditorium (at Willamette). He was playing the Mendelssohn violin concerto in E minor (the concerto I played a couple of weeks ago...obviously not the same though, haha). I was amazed at how seamless and easy he made it seem. Obviously, the concerto is not a walk in the park, but I think that his innate ability to make beautiful music come out of his instrument (18th century strad) is what truly draws so many people to him and his music (he sold out the house in Salem. in SALEM! nothing ever gets sold out in salem, OR!). The concerto seemed perfect and I am so happy that I was able to witness his work of art that night. The picture below (compliments to Evan) is of Joshua playing his encore variation of a children's tune, which was truly mind-blowing.