FIRST HALF ONLY Concert Review: F riday, 21 September 2018 in Tucson, was a night for the violinistas ! Consummate concert violinist Anne Akiko Meyers gave a deeply musical, masterly Beethoven performance to kick off the Tucson Symphony Orchestra's 90th Season. Then, celebrating the semicentennial of Stanley Kubrick's '2001: A Space Odyssey', the TSO delivered an exciting, dramatic, and colorful performance of Richard Strauss's penetrating and profound tone poem 'Also Sprach Zarathustra', featuring talented Concertmaster Loren Roth and Associate Concertmaster Michelle Abraham . Finally, pressed hard by the audience for an encore, Maestro Jose Luis Gomez and orchestra waltzed us into a gloriously uplifting azure bliss to conclude this spellbinding odyssey. A nne Akiko Meyers' stage presence is striking , spirited, sensuous, and engaging. On this night, it was as if a beautiful, over-sized, super-musically-talented red flower blossom just happen
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