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Sarah Chang Plays Bruch with WASO

3/16/2015

 
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WASO's first concert in 2015 was at 7.30 pm on 13 & 14 March at Perth Concert Hall. I bought tickets for the Saturday concert and attended with my husband. The venue for the pre-concert talk was changed to inside the Wardle room which provided with a greater seating capacity. The pre-concert talk given by Marilyn Phillips was quite interesting and helpful but it was occasionally disturbed by noise coming from the bar right next to where we were sitting.
The concert was amazing as I expected- Sarah Chang played Bruch's violin concerto no.1 in G minor ever so passionately and impeccably. It was a good experience for me as I'm more into piano concertos than violin concertos (well, piano is my instrument so I guess it is quite natural :D). I followed every movement Sarah made. I almost could believe that I was just a short distance away from this world famous violinist.
In the post-concert talk, Alan Tyrell had an interview with Sarah Chang and Maestro Asher Fisch. Listening to how Sarah began to play the violin, people were in astonishment- she was given her first ever violin, 1/16 small like the one we put on a Christmas tree, at the age of 4 and when she was 5 and a half, she played Bruch's first violin concerto in an audition for the Juilliard, the same concerto she played that night! No doubt that she was a child music prodigy.
Something that I wouldn't forget happened after the post-concert talk. A fan wanted to take a picture with her, then Sarah said 'yes'. I don't think she knew what that 'yes' could bring about-  many of her fans queued for photos and autographs and I couldn't exactly see the end of it. Well, I was one of them, too, and she was very kind and treated every single fan of hers with respect and a smile.
It was a happy night for me and I'm sure it was for all her fans who came that night, too.

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