What is the most memorable concert that you had attended so far?


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I do not go to concert very often, maybe once or twice a year.

I listen to music mostly through my audio system as much as 4 hours a day.

The most memorable concert that I had attended is the solo recital by Nathan Milstein held at Auditorium of UC Berkely on 1983.

He is one of the virtuoso violinist of the 20th century.

But he was 79 when he played at the recital on 1983.


When he played Partita by Bach, it was not his best.

Although he showed some of his skills, he could not keep up with the fast tempo as much as I wanted.

But as soon as he started playing "
César Franck, Violin Sonata in A Major.
".

I just marveled at the sweet sound of violin.

I could realize why he is one of the virtuoso violinist of the 20th century.

He died on 1992 so it is now impossible to attend his live recital again.


How about you ladies and gentlemen?

What is the most memorable concert that you had attended?
128x128shkong78
@armstrod

It must have been very nice to listen to big band in intimate setting with 400 people.

I am listening to Autumn Leaves by Eva Cassidy now.

Her  beautiful  voice makes me cry.

How come she goes to heaven that early.

It would have been wonderful I had gone to her live concert.
shkong78 & glupson,
Thank you so much for your kind words. She earned her doctorate from Georgia Tech in Psychology. Very proud of her, she is the first Phd in our family. 

kacomess, I would have absolutely loved to see Captain Beefheart in concert. What a musician Don was. It took a while for his music to grow on me, but when it did, it went deep. 

shkong78,
Autumn leaves is one of those songs that will live on forever. FWIW Bob Dylan has it on was of his albums as does Mark Lanegan. If you're interested I suspect you can find them both somewhere online.  
I was just reading unreceivedogmaspost about going to free concerts in Central Park. I remembered seeing Country Joe and The Fish playing there in the late 60’s . When I looked this concert up, I discovered I was part of history being made that night.

Country Joe sang their classic anti-VietNam war protest song, "Fixin’ to Die Rag" (You know the refrain "One, two, three, four, what are we fighting for? Don’t ask me I don’t give a d___, next stop is Viet Nam").

Unbeknownst to me, I just read that was the first time Country Joe ever had the crowd chant a different four letters than F-I-S-H for the FISH cheer. After he called out "Gimme an ’F’ ". I remember being surprised at the audience participation chant turning into "F____ the war" and assumed that’s how they always did it live. Perhaps it wasn’t the greatest moment in history, but I was certainly into it at the time. No match for the Dylan concert I mentioned above, but cool none the less now knowing I was there when that passionately obscene anti-Viet Nam war rallying cry was born.

Mike
@boxer12



I had listened to several version of "Autumn Leaves".

But Eva Cassidy's version is way best.

Her somewhat sibilant voice make feel sad.

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I bought used one from Amazon.