Becca and I were given the opportunity to go to the Angus Blackheart concert last night at Usana. Well, actually it was Andre Rieu however frankely I had forgotten his name and had to go to the Usana web page to find it.
Anyway, we went with Doug and Anna who were gracious enough to invite us. Our outing included a meal as well as box seats. Box seats are a loose term, not quite like the Jazz games, but we did have our own little area with PADDED seats.
The concert was a lot of fun, not quite like the symphonies Becca usually hauls me to. Andre was a bit goofy, and so was his orchestra. Becca and I noticed that it was about 93 7/13ths percent women..mostly blond and attractive. While we concede that since they are from Holland (or somewhere like that) it likely had an outcome as to why they were all blond, however....I had other theories.
What are they? Well, to put it bluntly I thought of this traveling symphony as his personal Harem. Weather true or not is not really the point of the blog, however it is kinda a fun side-note and really the only thing that makes this post read-worthy. A conductor and his personal harem traveling the world in one giant party.
Don't get me wrong, the show was a lot of fun, and they did quite well. There was lights, a movie projector, everything you'd expect to see in Vegas, or Branson Missouri. Andre for his part loved to be the star of the show. He was the lead violinist, and the conductor. The funny thing is, the camera was on him 94% of the evening...maybe even more. When someone in the orchestra had a solo, the camera (the large screen behind them would show the pictures) would give the soloist 2 seconds....seriously, TWO seconds of screen shot time, and the camera would go back to Andre. It really made me laugh. Any time the camera would move from our host, i would whisper to Becca "ME!!", and the camera would go back to our beloved conductor again. Yes, he loved being in the lime-light, but I guess most people in traveling show-buisness do, so there is nothing wrong there. It was mostly just funny. I laughed about it most of the night.
They had some tenors who were quite good. This symphony did many things so it was more interesting than many others where you get just one single type of music. They did a variety, and did some singing and dancing. Andre loved to dance and bob his head around with the music. It was entertaining to watch.
Enough with Andre...here is the only picture i got of the night, and it was with my cell phone. Speaking of which, Andre had someone take his picture last night with a poloroid camera. Andre would pull the photo out of the camera and fling it out into the audience. It was hilarious. He did this about 10 times (probably until the film ran out), striking various poses of elegance and magnificence. Ah, Andre....why didn't i get a picture?
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