140 thru 190
Thank you for your services to the Court this week. You are excused and will receive a one year exemption.
I was in group 171. Whew. So while the workers destroy our shed (!) and AT&T comes out to hook up our new service, I don’t have to worry about driving to the courthouse.
Does this mean I should start working on reeds?
Naw. :-)
How did a long-lost 200-year-old Beethoven concerto end up with the Washington Metropolitan Philharmonic? The Oboe Concert in F, written when Ludwig was 22 and a student of Haydn, had never been seen before it was discovered in the ’60s. Musicologists have slowly pieced it together from the composer’s notes found in the London and Bonn libraries. Oboist (and self-proclaimed inventor of the debit card) H. David Meyers first performed its adagio movement in Russia with the St. Petersburg Philharmonic. But it has never been heard live in the United States, which makes the Mount Vernon–based semi-professional orchestra a somewhat surprising choice for its national debut. In fact, Meyers has long co-hosted this annual concert fundraiser for Children’s Hospital with WMP conductor Ulysses James. Meyers “has some interesting plans in mind,” says James, and hopes to “see the reaction with the general public” to what he promises will be an unorthodox interpretation before taking it on the road for a full tour.
THE PERFORMANCE BEGINS AT 8 P.M. AT THE STRATHMORE MUSIC CENTER, 5301 TUCKERMAN LANE, NORTH BETHESDA. $45–$75. (301) 581-5100.
I knew about the Beethoven Oboe Concerto. But who knew about the “self-proclaimed inventor of the debit card”? ;-)
I finally found an oboe for sale! … Its only $85 and it comes with a case and is in good condition (supposedly ) Also, its at the flea market because they’re both have booths at the flea market
I’m so very sorry to read this … I just can’t believe an $85 oboe can be worth anything. Unless it’s used as a lamp stand.
I have to check my jury duty status again tomorrow morning at 10:00. Okay then … I won’t know until I know so I just am not going to worry about it! But since there’s still a possibility I’ll have to go in tomorrow, I guess I’ll have to make my red cabbage slaw for Thanksgiving early tomorrow morning.
Fortunately I cleaned the house today. When our yard work guys showed up this morning I was too embarrassed to just sit around. I figure they must think I am a total lazy person, considering how the yard looked. I had to prove that wrong. So I got down on my knees (where I knew they could see me; yeah, I’m silly that way) and washed the dining/living room floor. Then, knowing that simply wasn’t enough, I did laundry. Dusted. Vacuumed. Cleaned the bathrooms. Washed the kitchen floor.
Yeah, I’m incredibly silly that way.
As I wrote on my facebook page:
Patty just lied to the yard workers without saying a word.
Really. Trying to show how I’m a hard worker to these hard workers out in the yard … what a lie that is!
I’m truly a very lazy person. And I don’t want to go to jury duty.
Because I’m just that lazy.
Barry Manilow instead of the typical classical music punishment. Hmmm. It’s a change, in any case.
Yesterday I checked in at noon to see what my status was. I read that I should check back at 5:00. I checked at 5:00 PM. It said to check at noon again today. Being the impatient person that I am, I checked earlier than that. By a little after 11:00 I already saw they had updated my group number’s status and I am now supposed to check in again today at 5:00.
In other words, I don’t have to go in today, nor did I have to go in yesterday. I’m going to guess I won’t go in at all, since they are closed on Thursday and Friday. (And yes, I knew that when I said I wanted to move my jury duty to this week.) In any case, I didn’t have to cancel a single student. So that’s good news. For me at least.
I’m not sure what my students think! :-)
Now I just have to deal with the very noisy guys who are working on my yard. For a while it got extremely quiet and I wondered if they had already finished, but then I realized they were on lunch break. Now I’m hearing a lot of machines. My oboe students may be competing with the lovely sound of chain saws and leaf blowers, along with that munching machine that chomps up all the stuff they’ve been hauling out.
There is light in our living room! I can see the backyard through a window that was completely covered by a plant. It’s quite nice, even while it’s noisy.
Poulenc described his work as a “contemporary drawing room party suffused with an atmosphere of wantonness, which you sense if you are corrupted, but of which an innocent-minded girl would not be conscious.”
Alrighty, then. I read this here. (Closest translation, according to those notes, for “biches” is female deer. Just so you know.)
Update to post below
I read another article that included this:
Mrs. Sasse said the announced 2008-2009 schedule, including a fully staged production of “La Boheme” in February, will be presented as planned.
And now I’ve received a message from Ms. Sasse saying what the other article implied (or at least what it implied to me … I’m good at misreading! Did they change the article I linked to below, or did it always say 2009-2010? Hmmm. Probably my fault. Sigh.) isn’t true.
Good news, to be sure.
Everyone who reads this blog knows I suffered through the death of San Jose Symphony, and I really hurt for other companies that are struggling. It’s not easy for anyone. (One of the things that really put the San Jose Symphony in debt were the added operas they decided to put on for a while.)
Chattanooga Symphony & Opera have canceled the remainder of their season.
Sigh.
At Carmina Burana on Saturday our conductor, Nicole Paiement, encouraged people to donate to the school. She explained that with all the budget cuts some students may lose the opportunity for private lessons. That is, of course, my job there. I do wonder how many I’ll be allowed to teach this coming quarter; I’ve not been told if I’ll get to continue with my oboe students and the woodwind quintet yet. I know I’ll have my three hours per week, but anything over that is uncertain.
Everyone is hurting, that’s certain.
Tomorrow Night: 7:00 PM @ the UCSC Recital Hall you can hear UCSC chamber ensembles in an “open rehearsal”, playing snippets of what they’ve been working on this quarter.
Nielsen’s Wind Quintet, movements 1 and 2, will be included in the performance
Come hear the UCSC Woodwind Quintet!
I just read that the conductor Richard Hickox died yesterday. He was only 60. You can read about it here. Jessica Duchen blogged about him, as did Tom Service.
(I wouldn’t mind at all if my thighs were miniaturized.)
Domingo has an iPod, too, but says he’s scared of it.
“The ears are precious for musicians,” he says. Domingo doesn’t like sticking little loudspeakers so close to his eardrums. He says he’s flummoxed by the concept of being miniaturized.
“I’m very happy that people can put so much music in such a little thing, but it scares me so much,” Domingo says. “I’ve been recording for 40 years now; how is it possible that my whole career can be in a little thing like this?”
I read it here.
She paused briefly to ask the photographers to take her picture full face – “no profiles, please.” Callas and her 17 pieces of luggage are staying at the Fairmont.
I read it here.
… I’m on jury duty this week.
Fortunately I now have the Superior Court link up. When I open the computer I’ll see that and remember to check my status. I hope. I’m supposed to check again tomorrow morning. I have three students tomorrow, and three students on Tuesday. If I have to cancel them, it’s quite a loss of income. Wednesday I have an opera to attend, and I really don’t want to have to leave for that too late in the day. So I’m just hoping I won’t get called. I know it’s selfish, but there you go.
The two times I’ve made it into a jury box I was rejected anyway. They don’t seem to want me. Wouldn’t ya know? So what if I could just call and say, “You don’t want me so why bother calling me? You don’t like oboe playing music teachers!”
If I were called in the summer I really wouldn’t mind serving. So many students take off in the summer that I probably wouldn’t lose too much income. But now? It’s just not a good time for this.
So I’m done with Elixir. It really was great fun. Today went well, and I didn’t even hit the wall, as I sometimes do on Sunday afternoons. I will miss my opera pals. Ah, the opera pit! It’s one of my favorite places to be.
After the performance some family members met me at Il Fornaio, which is a very short walk from the hall. We enjoyed a lovely dinner … or at least I did! I hope everyone else did as well. The dinner was to celebrate my 52nd birthday, but really I just love enjoying my fabulous family and eating great food. Because I’m extremely self-centered I had them sing me Happy Birthday. Yeah, I really am THAT bad. Wouldn’t ya know? ;-)
They sang well. With harmony. 8-)
Barry Bonds and guns? Sad, if you ask me.
You’d think he’d have gone in for selling something like … I dunno … oboe reeds?
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