Brad and Carl Attend Boston Symphony All Wagner Concert

On March 22^nd Brad and Carl attended a Boston Symphony all Wagner concert.  Great seats had been arranged by Peter Ayer, a Transparent cable fan, and his cousin Neil Ayer.  The first half of the concert consisted entirely of Dawn and Siegfried’s Rhine Journey and Siegfried’s Death and Funeral March from Gotterdammerung played without any break. 

View from the stage after the concert

 The stage had been extended about eight feet out into the hall to accommodate the huge Wagnerian orchestra.  Daniele Gatti, who is one of the leading candidates to be the new Music Director of the Boston Symphony, brought out the great power of the orchestral climaxes.  It was thrilling to experience peaks close to 100 db without a trace of distortion or sense of strain.  In one passage these very loud climaxes alternated with moments of complete silence to very dramatic effect. 

Neil Ayer (left), Michelle DeYoung (center)

In the second half of the program we heard the Overture to Tannhauser, the Prelude to Lohengrin, and vocal selections from Parsifal and Tristan and Isolde sung by mezzo-soprano Michelle DeYoung.  The performance was supported by the Ethan Ayer Vocal Soloist Fund and Ethan Ayer’s nephew Neil had arranged for us to meet the soloist and the conductor in the artists’ room backstage at the end of the concert.

We had excellent visits with both Ms. DeYoung and Maestro Gatti, who uses Transparent cable in his personal sound system in Italy and was very enthusiastic in his praise for Transparent products.  Both the concert and the visits backstage afterward were experiences to be treasured.