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Sun, Mar 23, 2008

White Easter

Posted at 11:35 am MDT to Weather

It started snowing about sunset yesterday. I think there was an inch or so on the ground early this morning, so everything was white and pretty in the sunshine.

Now it is melting off pretty quickly, which is what you want snow to do at this time of year. Places where the snow was on dirt or roadbase are already bare. There is just a little snow left on the grass.

I'm ready for green plants and flowers, but that is still a few weeks away here. I should visit Nanette's greenhouse in the meant time.

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Dance Concert

Posted at 11:24 am MDT to Media

Last night was another Philharmonic Concert. This one explored classical music inspired by dance (Rachmaninoff's Symphonic Dances) and dance inspired by classical music.

The dancing -- by a modern/ballet duo called LemonSponge Cake -- was very good. Especially considering that they were dancing to some very abstract late-20th century stuff by Arvo Pärt. That part of the music would have been too depressing without the dancers. I don't think my brain chemistry is in a state where I should be inflicting abstract music on it.

That goes double for the first piece of music that was played yesterday: "Company" by Philip Glass. Too much math, not enough chemistry. I won't quite go as far as talking about the emperor's clothes when it comes to Philip Glass, but I very much prefer my music to have some melodic or rhythmic complexity, preferably both. I have a suspicion that Glass's reputation comes more from musicians than from pure listeners. I can see where the pieces might be much more tricky and interesting to play than they are to listen to.

Note to self: the guy who gives the pre-concert lectures is a pompous bozo. Stop getting to the concerthall so early.

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