"Hopelandic" or How I Spent More Money on Music than Groceries in 2017

The 2016-17 season has been a great year for music for me personally, so I thought I should recap some of the highlights and finds. Incidentally, I calculated that I've spent more money on concert and music since I graduated Fletcher last year than on groceries.

Rachmaninoff's 2nd Piano Concerto
St. Petersburg Philharmonic
Yuri Temirkanov, and accompanied by an impressive soloist pianist, Nikolai Lugansky.

Chopin 1st Piano Concerto
Philadelphia Orchestra
Dynamic music director Yannick Nézet-Séguin returns with the orchestra and celebrated pianist Louis Lortie

Tchaikovsky's 1st Piano Concerto
Alice Sara Ott with the NSO

Beethoven's 9th Symphony
NSO

Mahler's 5th Symphony
Royal Dutch Orchestra

Quilt
Sinclair, Boston

Dvorak
Hillary Hahn with the NSO

Zakir Hussain and Rahul Sharma
with the NSO
Kennedy Center, DC

Stonefield
9.30 Club, DC

Sigur Ros
Boston Calling and NYC

Tool
Boston Calling

Mitski
Boston Calling

Kevin Morby
Boston Calling

Cage the Elephant
Boston Calling

Run the Jewels
Boston Calling

The XX
Boston Calling

Wolf Parade
Boston Calling

My Boston Calling public playlist on Spotify also includes Weezer, Frightened Rabit, Mondo Cozmo, Tegan and Sara, Moses Sumney, mac DeMarco, Xylouris White, and Car Seat Headrest.

King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard
9.30 Club, DC

Slowdive
9.30 Club, DC

Japanese Breakfast
9.30 Club, DC

Rodrigo y Gabriela
9.30 Club, DC

Blondie + Garbage
The Wolftrap, Virginia

Depeche Mode
Verizon Center, DC

Giorgio Moroder

9.30 Club, DC