This was quite a lovely weekend. On Friday night, we went out on a date. We ate dinner outside in the cool air at a nice restaurant and wandered around a bookstore. Then we went to a concert of spooky music at the university. The acoustics at Gammage Auditorium are really good, and I very much enjoyed the selections from John Williams' Harry Potter soundtrack. "Hedwig's Theme" is just a perfect bit of music - magical and melancholy, just like Harry. I hadn't been to a concert of symphonic music in a long time. Brought me to tears... I used to play flute and oboe and, as a teenager, my goals were torn - pursue music or astronomy? I chose astronomy, arguing to myself that I could continue to play music on my own. There are an oboe and a flute, long untouched, sitting in my closet. I really should drag them out. Warn the neighbors!
The rest of the weekend has involved yummy food, some work, and cozy naps. I also finished The Pox Party - The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing: Traitor to the Nation, vol. 1 by M.T. Anderson. The book is amazing. It's marketed as YA, which is appropriate if you go by age of the protagonist, but this book is rich on so many levels. I hope that it receives wide readership. If you haven't read it, do so. I give it my highest recommendation.
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You failed to mention me as guest conductor. Do not fail me again.
My favorite costuming was the two bass players who dressed up as Mormon missionaries.
Sounds like a great weekend!
Also, I've been hearing others talk about how great that MT Anderson book is. I'll get myself a copy from the library this weekend. I can't believe he also wrote Whales on Stilts!
Whales on Stilts is a fun book. The followup The Clue of the Linoleum Lederhosen is also fun, but has lines of breathtaking beauty as well. Anderson is always worth a read, and he just seems to be getting better.
I don't know if I ever formally apologized for dissing the oboe (I believe I said something like "dyspeptic duck'), but I absolutely love the theme to the "Poirot" series and am now acknowledging the error of my ways.
Apology accepted. :)
The oboe is a difficult instrument to control. It sounds dreadful in the wrong hands, even I'll admit that.
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