Dancing with my baby girl to the music of Ornette Coleman in Battery Park.
Nick Cave at Kings Theatre, Brooklyn, NY (2017)
Watching Nicholas Slonimsky roll an orange over the piano keyboard during a talk at Harvard
Richard Saffran
Hard to say, but one of the most memorable was the performance of Timber by Michael Gordon in Zagreb, Croatia played by Slagwerk Den Haag.
A dance group performing to Terry Riley’s In C. I do not remember the name of the dance group or orchestral group. There was an orchestra member in the pit who appeared to be either intoxicated or high because he kept doing weird things during the performance. But the most memorable part of the evening occurred as the auditorium was filling. In walked an attractive young woman followed by an entourage of males. She was wearing an elegant white evening gown with a transparent top. She sat a bit behind me and on the other side of the auditorium, so I could not continue to stare at her. But I was content watching the performance (dancers and musicians) and listening to the music (In C is one of my favorites). This was around 1970, in San Francisco.
Mel Schopper
San Francisco Symphony Mavericks Concert
Mark Miller
Sepultura in 1994, becoming intelligible to me after the shock of just how loud concerts actually were wore off.
Jim Kang
Music Circus, University of Illinois, about 1972?
James Hunsley
Hearing LCD Soundsystem play a cover of Throw by Paperclip People
seeing grizzly bear and beach house at the roundhouse, camden london