Last night Erci and I went to see Noche Flamenca at Wolf Trap after a quiet sushi dinner at Hama Sushi (which has become our favorite regular sushi restaurant). The saki and sushi were terrific, and helped Erci calm down from a particularly harrowing day at work (her team is immersed in a sense of impending doom lately).
| Soledad Barrio, Alejandro Granados, and Juan Ogalla were each stunning as dancers, both together and as soloists. It was a sticky, humid night, but the dancers did not hesitate to give stunning performances even though they were obviously quite hot. Juan was visibly soaked by the middle of his solo dance routine, and he kept turning up the intensity anyway. |
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Wolf Trap’s Filene Center has interesting acoustics, and sometimes I have not been fond of them, but for classical guitar that is lightly amplified the stadium really shines. The guitar players played fantastic and rich music and the sound came through to us in the seats perfectly. It was like being right next to the guitar while these amazing players made their instruments sing.
Interesting anecdote: it was vastly easier getting out of the parking lot after this show than it was getting out after Gypsy Kings and Chicago recently; the crowd was far more polite and turn taking was reasonable and pleasant.
Tonight I look forward to the Ian Anderson concert, also at Wolf Trap. What a season!
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