One of my favorite performers of all time is Trey Anastasio. I’ve seen him play dozens of times before, mostly with Phish, sometimes with other jam bands he’s led as a soloist.<\/p>\n
I’ve seen various symphony orchestras through the years as well, from high school groups up to philharmonics from major cities.<\/p>\n
I have a split personality when it comes to music.<\/p>\n
(Actually it’s more like 17 different personalities, but two big ones.)<\/p>\n
Both sides of said personality were able to hang out at Wolf Trap last night and be entertained by Trey Anastasio and the National Symphony Orchestra.<\/p>\n
Thanks for playing a gig a few miles up the road from my house, guys.<\/p>\n
It was either the most staid Trey show I’d ever seen, or the most raucous orchestral performance I’d ever seen, or perhaps some happy Goldilocks medium that brought a few worlds together. Yeah, there were some drunken (among other things) hippies there and some very confused opera-goer types, but for the most part everyone was embracing the alliance. Tuxedo t-shirt was sort of the standard uniform.<\/p>\n
Trey doesn’t sit in with the symphony too often (and vice versa), so this really was the first time I was hearing most if not all of these arrangements. Yeah, I’ve heard the tunes before but not like this. I liked being surprised and I liked seeing something different.<\/p>\n
Both of me did.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
One of my favorite performers of all time is Trey Anastasio. I’ve seen him play dozens of times before, mostly with Phish, sometimes with other jam bands he’s led as a soloist. I’ve seen various symphony orchestras through the years … Continue reading