Favorite concert/concert memory

[cemaphonic]

18. I went to see the Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields play Mozart at the Kennedy Center

I was in highschool at the time, and I went with one of my best friends. She was a theater geek, and very bold, and had no use for the classical concert etiquette that says you can't just climb up on the stage and wander around backstage after the show. So I followed her, mortified, sure we would (at best) be ejected from the hall. After a few minutes, we found the conductor, Neville Marriner, in a small receiving room, talking to a few obviously well-heeled patron. Amazingly he seemd delighted and amused to have a couple of starstruck teenagers skulking around backstage looking for him, and spent a few minutes talking to us, and signing our programs (Which is to this day my only celebrity autograph).

And the concert was great too - a couple of Mozarts's later symphonies