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ramtopslast night, (along with most of Bristol's chattering classes, it seems) we went to see the Kronos Quartet in the Colston Hall. I wasn't at all sure that they would be my kind of thing, but by and large, I thought they were fab.
one or two pieces were a tad too clever for me, but there were some that I really loved.
they did two encores, the second of which was prefaced with the remark that "it's a sad day when the only way an American musician can register his dissent is by playing a song from Woodstock", and then they launched into their version of Jimi Hendrix' version of The Star Spangled Banner" - as![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
perlmonger said, probably the most angry rendition of that particular piece that we've ever heard.
a fine night.
in other news, we went to a wedding on Friday - more on that story later.
one or two pieces were a tad too clever for me, but there were some that I really loved.
they did two encores, the second of which was prefaced with the remark that "it's a sad day when the only way an American musician can register his dissent is by playing a song from Woodstock", and then they launched into their version of Jimi Hendrix' version of The Star Spangled Banner" - as
perlmonger said, probably the most angry rendition of that particular piece that we've ever heard.a fine night.
in other news, we went to a wedding on Friday - more on that story later.