National Symphony Orchestra - Millennium Stage (February 10, 2023)

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Live Tonight on Millennium Stage: Members of the National Symphony Orchestra play an assortment of chamber music.
Franz Schubert: Octet in F major D 803
FEATURING:
Peter Cain, clarinet
Sue Heineman, bassoon
James Nickel, horn
Jennifer Kim, violin
Sara Matayoshi, violin
Andrew Eng, viola
Eugena Chang, cello
Charles Nilles, bass

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Beyond my understanding. I am naive to such music . So I can't enjoy that. It didn't caught up with me at all. Sorry.

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For a Saturday morning, it's good background while setting up laundry or picking up after breakfast. To me octets are mini orchestra works that give you added textures vs trios or quartets.
It's your ear and you know what you like and don't, so you needn't apologize for not getting caught up with this performance. That said, don't forego chamber music altogether because of it. There's more to hear. You might look for local or regional performances that often have a short didactic intro to the composition that lends insight to the work and adds to your experience with the music.
One of the first chamber works my mom heard in person was at a local chamber festival when she was in her sixties. It was Brahms' string quintet opus 111. At the playing of the first notes she let out an audible gasp and then had the widest grin i had ever seen on her face other than time she spent with her grandchildren. She was hooked, and for that memory of decades ago I remain grateful to Stephanie and her cactus pear.