Adam György

aku jatuh cinta...
[taken from DEWA: Bintang Lima Album]

unforgettable...that's what you are..
unforgettable..though near or far...
["Unforgettable" by Nat King Cole & Natalie Cole]

Ahahaha...when can I meet you again Mr. Adam György?
*drifting off in a dreamland* Oh mee oh my... I said once
that I would "fall in love" with a guy that could either play
classic piano or classic guitar very well... Especially if the
song on the guitar is "Romance D'Amour", I can play only
the first half of it >_< And any beautiful classical song to
my ear on the piano...

Last night I went to a classical music concert which had a
performance from Nusantara Symphony Orchestra and
also a Hungarian World-Known Pianist
named Adam György. It was a tribute concert to Franz Liszt
one of the greatest composers of all time! The songs that Liszt
composed were all beautiful, and some parts a bit slow, but
I don't mind cuz I like classical music :)

The concert was in Balai Sarbini Concert Hall, started at
8 PM on Thursday, October 7th, 2004. I got 2 tickets free
from Dad, who got it from his office free. Both tickets were
VIP II tickets at Rp.500.000,- each. So it's a mill for both.
My dad couldn't go with me cuz he had a business trip to
Aceh! (Daerah conflict >,<) Then my mom didn't feel like it
cuz she didn't wanna go through the traffic, even though we
use a chauffeur. So I asked Dhita to accompany me, and she
was more than happy to come with me (",)

After class at 3PM I went home, sent the Interview Essay
homework to the lecturer, then took a bath. At about 6PM
I ate dinner by myself, cuz my mom had to pick my li'l bro
up at school (SMP Al-Izhar Pondok Labu). My li'l bro's
gonna have a "Kompetisi Elektro" against other middle
schools, so he's been focusing on that in the past weeks.
Then I went to pick Dhita up at her house, I arrived there
at about 6:40PM. When she got on the car, she suddenly
said, "Mut, I'm so excited, cuz it's been a long time I haven't
seen this kind of concert before!"

Then we got to Balai Sarbini, and I met Miranda Gultom who
was, not surprisingly, the Chairwoman of the event. She told us
to go straight to our seats, when actually we just arrived
there and wanted to have a coffee and snack first...huh udah
diusir ajah..salah sendiri sih nyampe jam 8 kurang^_^hehe
So we went to our seats, and we saw a cute usher too on the
way*wink wink*hehehe.. We saw a lot of "bule" watching, I
dunno if they were Americans or Europeans. And we also saw
lotsa other famous people like: Irma Hutabarat (who was the
MC of the nite, but actually I was thinkin' that it'd be better
if I had substituted her..my English is better..hehe), Siswono
Y.H. (one of the people who ran for Vice Prez in the 1st round
of the Presidential election) and Pia Alisyahbana (from the
Femina Magazine group).

At about 8:15PM the concert started with an opening by the
MC. Then Mr. Adam György started his solo act on the piano
by playing 4 songs:
1. "Rigoletto Paraphrase" - Franz Liszt
2. "Hungarian Rhapsody #6" - Franz Liszt
3. "La Campanella" - Franz Liszt
4. "Hungarian Rhapsody #2" - Franz Liszt

There was an intermission after that, a break for the audience
and also performer. After the ending of each song I clapped
with all my heart and I was just amazed by Adam György's
piano playing! As he played through out the song I just stared
in awe at his hands which were flowing up and down the piano
keys so elegantly. He did cross-overs elegantly, and between
phrases did elegant lifts... Oh my, I wish I had those delicate
hands so I can play like him, or maybe I can just have the
pianist to myself? Hahaha...

After the intermission, the Nusantara Symphony Orchestra
played a song from Bela Bartok "Roumanian Dances". Then
performed "Totentanz" by Franz Liszt with Adam György
on the piano. After that was all done, they received a standing
ovation from the audience, and it went on for long.. sooo
long that they came back to the stage and Adam sat again
on the piano bench. Then he played..."Indonesia Pusaka" so
soft and delicately...on the first 5 notes of the song, the whole
audience clapped for him cuz he played an Indonesian song!
I was touched cuz he played an Indonesian national song and
played it very very soft and delicately... After that he went off
stage and the orchestra played 1 song. When the orchestra
was playing, I was also touched cuz it made some pieces of my
past memories fly by me. The time when I was still playing
the violin in the Cranbrook Elementary School Orchestra; the
Columbus Elementary Schools' Orchestra at St. John's Arena,
Ohio State University, Columbus. Ohio, uSA (this event
included about 4 representatives from each Elementary school
in Columbus, Ohio and I was one of 'em from my school); and
the Ridgeview Middle School Orchestra. In the concert at
St. John's Arena, the conductor was Mrs. Lundeen who became
my teacher when I entered Ridgeview Middle School.

Ohmigod... when the concert was over, there was a giving
of some bouquet of flowers to Adam, the conductor
(Edward C. Van Ness), and the Ambassador of Hungary for
Indonesia (Dr. GyorgyBusztin). There was also a little interview
by the MC with Adam, and Mrs. Irma Hutabarat asked how
old he was; and he answered...twenty-two... I looked at Dhita,
and I was like, "Dhita! He's only 22! We have a chance!" and
Dhita was like, "Ohmigod Mut, he's only 22!" Well the point of
that conversation was.. Dhita and I "wanted" Adam...!
hahahahaha... :D It's true..at least for me it is... Terpesona gw
ama yang namanya Adam György! huahahaha
And he's a World-Known Pianist too...!

Well enough of Adam..I wanna do some nostagila eits salah
nostalgia I mean...

I remembered when I was in Ridgeview, since I was a junior
I started at the 2nd Violin part for the 1st year (6th grade),
then advanced to the 1st Violin part in 7th grade and 8th grade.
But then in the position of the orchestra, as a 2nd Violinist we
aren't on the most outer part of the half-circle orchestra layout.
It was 1st Violin then 2nd Violin. When I became one of the 1st
Violinists in 7th grade, I still had my senior, Rebecca, who was
on the right side of me. So when my dad brought the video
camera, he said that he wasn't able to see me clearly because
from the audience point of view, they'd see Becca first then me.
At last in my last year in Ridgeview, I was placed in the outer-
most part of the 1st Violin section... hehehe... bangga lagi
*hits myself* I'm tellin' this story not because I'm so proud of
myself and try to boast it around, but I'm just re-living my
memories...haaah...