The best Concert I’ve ever Been to

For today’s post, I’d like to write about the best concert I’ve been to. I will start by making it clear that I haven’t been to many concerts in my life besides classical music ones, so that’s what I’ll be focusing on in this particular case.

I think the best concert of this kind I’ve ever been to, has to be the eleventh piano concert organized by the Teatro Municipal de Santiago in the year 2013. It consisted of three pieces, each one from a different Russian romantic composer, Tchaikovsky, Rimsky-Korsakov y Khachaturian respectively.

Of the first 2 pieces I don’t remember much, other than it was a lovely played symphony (I think it was the fifth) in the first case, and an overture in the second. The highlight of the night was the third piece, the concert for piano by Aram Khachaturian, played by the Chinese violinist Ray Chen. I don’t think I was ever before moved by a piece in the way I was at that moment, and it served to reinforce and strengthen my love for this type of music.

After writing this post I now look back at that moment and realize it was the last classical concert I’ve been to. Sadly, the chronogram for such concerts is very strict and well defined, with only 12 such events taking place in one year. If the academic pressure lessens, and I find the time, I’d love to repeate the experience.