Busy, Busy Weekend

I had a very busy weekend last weekend that started with jazz, moved to classical and then on to Broadway musical with lots of activities in between.

It all started Friday night when I went to The Nash to see and hear the New Guard Big Band featuring the great vocalist Dennis Rowland.  The Nash is not a very big place so that band was all squeezed together on a tiny stage and Rowlands sang from off to one side behind the musicians.  What a voice he has.  It was an outstanding performance by one and all.

Saturday night it was downtown to Symphony Hall for the Phoenix Symphony performing Verdi's Requiem, a masterful piece that required a full chorus and four soloists.  That was another knock-out performance with the all the drama of an opera and the genius of Verdi's symphonic writing.

Sunday night it was out to Tempe to Grady Gammage Auditorium for a performance of "Fiddler on the Roof" which you probably guessed from the names given to these three drinks.  As always, the bar serves up three drinks themed to the performance.  I had the one called tradition.  The drink was great and so was the outstanding performance by a stellar cast.  I was singing "If I Were a Rich Man" all the way home.

It was quite the cultural weekend, just the kind of busy-busy I love.