Guitar in focus

We went to a concert on Thursday. Turku Philharmonic Orchestra was playing a concert named 'Guitar in focus'. I was expecting an interesting evening. Well.. I wouldn't call it that interesting but different for sure. The concerto was made by Risto T.T. Pulkkinen and in our local newspaper it got quite a good review afterwards. I (and my better[?] half) don't seem to understand that kind of artistic output. Such discords that even I who don't play guitar at all could make those. Not necessarily in the right order or rightly timed but anyway.. I was expecting to hear more of a classical guitar playing. This might have been a bit too modern concert to me..

I sort of felt myself stupid sitting there, listening to it and not getting it. Lucky for me, my guitar-playing-better-half said the same during the halftime. Not only was the concerto and guitar playing a disappointment but the time that world famous (From doing what?) guitarist Timo Korhonen spent on stage.. If the concerto is named 'Guitar in focus' I really expect to hear that guitar throughout the concert. But no. Not a chance. But since the dischords, I guess we we're just lucky not to hear it the whole time. The orchestra played actually really well before and after the guitar.

As I said already after the concert to my spouse I might feel a bit (understatement!!) screwed after that concert if I had paid for the ticket. Luckily we didn't pay anything, so it was just a sort of waste of time. And fortunately we've seen plenty of great concerts by the Philharmonic orchestra so this definitely won't be our last visit to the Turku Concert Hall.