One way to be spellbound on your visit to Asheville, N.C., is to attend a concert by the Asheville Symphony Orchestra at the Thomas Wolfe Auditorium downtown. When you visit our Lovers’ Loop Retreat, an Asheville vacation rental, you’re just 10 minutes away from this treat.
We recently went to the first concert of the symphony’s 49th season, which featured “Don Quixote” and “Carmen” suites with a guest cellist and violist. The symphony presents an ocean of sound and a mountain of music, and we were caught up in the tidal wave of horns, reeds, strings and percussion. With all the instruments, there’s so much for the eyes as well as the ears, and it’s always interesting to watch the conductor’s movements, sometimes energetic, sometimes graceful. The musicians’ warming up their instruments before the concert starts is titillating, too.
The symphony’s season continues through May, 2010 with music by composers from around the world and includes guest musicians, a guest vocalist, the Asheville Symphony Chorus and Brevard College Chorus. The Holiday Pops concert Dec. 19 will feature the Asheville Symphony Chorus, Asheville Symphony Children’s Chorus and a soloist. The Asheville Symphony Chorus also will perform May 1, 2010.
There’s a link to the Asheville Symphony Orchestra’s Web site on the Lovers’ Loop Retreat home page. When you stay at Lovers’ Loop Retreat, an Asheville bed and breakfast alternative, you may have the opportunity to hear nature’s symphony — squirrels, birds, crickets, rain — a different kind of music.
