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Alban Gerhardt gets lost in the Lalo Concerto

On Aug 6 I started a tour with the Asian Youth Orchestra and Joseph Bastian with concerts in Shenzhen and Shanghai (followed by concerts in Singapore, Taipei, Yokohama and Tokyo) playing the Lalo concerto. Here an excerpt from the first concert which we did on 90 minutes of rehearsal. The young people played wonderfully, Joseph collaborated perfectly until a little cough by what I thought might have been my 11-year-old son (wasn’t him after all) plus my attempt to change details versus the rehearsal completely threw me out of my train of thoughts and straight into a lovely black-out. For seemingly eternal 10 seconds I had no idea which notes to play, incredibly silly feeling I must admit. But hey, this is what live music is (sometimes) about - taking risks, trying new things, and when you make mistakes, you own them, try to forget them and move on as there are 20 more minutes to be performed, and people in general don’t really mind if you fail for 10 seconds if otherwise (in the words of the US president) „I gave it my bestest“ 😂 And yes, the second theme before I was falling apart is supposed to be played „a tempo“ - never have I done it that fluid though, taking more time in the recapulation (in order to avoid saying the same thing twice the exact same way…). Today in Shanghai I got that place right, therefore forgot some other notes in the last movement...