While listening to tonight's San Francisco Symphony broadcast on K297BI, I was pleased to hear three works that I'd performed in high school and college--Beethoven's sixth symphony, Mendelssohn's third symphony, and Schubert's eighth symphony.
As I heard the opening notes of Beethoven's Pastoral symphony, I mused in jest, "I wonder if this rendition is as good as my college orchestra's take on it."
It's a safe bet that the professional orchestra's version was more polished than ours. That was the case, I'm sure, with all three pieces...
...but just to be sure, I'd have to review our concert tapes. (I'm resisting the urge to insert a smile emoticon here.)
