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Chuck Haga: I felt like life was starting up again
At a recent concert at the Masonic Center, the music was serenely beautiful. But it wasn t just about the music – it was seeing it played and actually feeling it.
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Chuck Haga is a columnist for the Grand Forks Herald. (Eric Hylden/Grand Forks Herald)
Two friends sat together last Sunday in the Grand Forks Masonic Center’s theater, masked but together, surrounded by other fans of classical music – couples, families, individuals – spaced but more part of a community than many have felt for a year.
Together, they savored Felix Mendelssohn’s “Fingal’s Cave” from his work, The Hebrides. They applauded Franz Schubert’s 8th Symphony, the “Unfinished.” And they rose, together, to give a spirited ovation to guest soloist Arsentiy Kharitonov for his energetic and emotional performance of Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 2, backed by the Greater Grand Forks Symphony Orc