Sunday, December 05, 2021
Surround sound
Even with a good portable speaker, watching the live recording of this year's St. Olaf Christmas Festival on a laptop didn't quite give the sense of being surrounded by nearly five hundred student musicians (one the daughter of a friend) - but it came close enough! Or maybe it's that they began, as they apparently always do, with Nimrod from Elgar's "Enigma Variations."