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Our old Zenith venue quite different for a change - including seats and a posh atmosphere and a sophisticated audiance dressed in dark colours. Sold out is the slogan, which means in this venues with chairs aprox. 2.300 visiters. It seems a bit odd and unusual, as we are rather used to a steamy battlefield in here, when various rockbands play, and their fans squash each other half to death. Not today though, and it almost seems pretty comfortable for a change. But who is David Garrett actually who currentyl gets so much hyped? Born as the son of a lawyer and an american ballerina, he lives in the states since he was 10 years old. He started to play the violine aged 4 And with 14 he got his first contract with the German Grammophon Ges. In 1999 he visited as one of the first students of the masterclass of Itzhak Perlman the juiliard School of Music. Nowadays he plays the violine of Antonio Stradivari from the year 1710. And he used to play the violine of Giovanni Battista Guadagnini from 1772 until he broke after an accident in London's Barbican on Dec. 27. last year. So probably it's only the Stradivari he plays tonight. Just before showtime, we
stand at the V.I.P. entrance because of our photocall, when an almost 6
feet tall blonde sunnyboy in jeans and jacket jumps out of a small van,
and would have run straight into the audiance,if nobody had hold him back
and directed him backstage. He takes this in a humourous way and laughs.
Yes, he seems very nice and is definately a blockbuster for girlies. - The
other thing is, that he is the chain between serious classical music, a
modern way to play and rockmusic. David has grown up with Mozart, Liszt,
Beethoven, but also luvs Metallica and Marilyn manson. And he is just
about to get himself a very big name....
He plays as well as what he
looks like, and that's definately no disadvantage, wo I've discovered
quite a few young girls in the audiance. Over all during the break the
screen in the back of the stage shows the message: 'David Garrett is
signing autographs aftershow'. Oh jes.... I fear, that's gonna be a long
evening for our sunnyboy, although the musical magic is done by 10 p.m. In
the end he receives a bunch of flowers, which he passes on to the audiance
immidiately and plays another encore. |