A couple shitty blackberry pics of the concert hall. Its in one of the Petronas twin towers. The concert was really amazing. Particularly the second part of the program. It was Eduard Lalo's Symphonie espagnole. The violin soloist was this chinese dude Chuanyun Li. He's "famous" for the symphonie espanole because shortly after his graduation from Julliard he stepped in with 5 days notice and played the piece with some big orchestra. He's one of the greatest classical musicians I've ever gotten to see. He's kind of a fat dude, and stands there and belts out the piece, sweating and walking around while playing. At the completion of the piece, the audience (who were a really great philharmonic audience, knew when to clap and when not, were very quiet, everyone dressed to the nines) went fucking crazy. He did the obligatory walk off the stage and back on, got presented the bouquet, walked back off, back on, and the audience wouldn't stop. They cheered and clapped for about 20 minutes, and after a while the Malaysian symphony orchestra that accompanied his solo stopped with their polite tapping of bowstrings on instruments and joined in the riotous applause. Li finally came back on stage and in broken english said he would like to play a piece from some movie score he's working on. He proceeded to play unaccompanied the craziest violin piece I've ever heard, the violin section was going crazy. After about 5 minutes his bow literally broke over the violin, not the horsehair but the bow itself. Everyone gasped and then erupted into applause. It was crazy. People were crying. Not me though, I don't cry.
Apparently this dude has a bunch of cds. If you've any interest in classic music, I highly recommend you check him out.
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