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artsy weekend
Dec. 10th, 2017 10:17 pmJocelyn is in the school chorus this year. They performed Vivaldi's Gloria Friday. Not usually my cup of tea but my kid's in it so I went. There were also some other smaller pieces, both choral and instrumental. One I liked was a piano-violin piece that could well have been the soundtrack for an animated cat and mouse chase, lots of "run run run" "POUNCE"! action. "Subito" by Witold Lutoslawski, the program tells me.
Saturday afternoon we went to see a performance of the Nutcracker in which one of Jocelyn's classmates dances as Clara. I'd never seen the Nutcracker before. It was, um, slightly surreal, but the dancers all performed very well and I enjoyed it. I recognized a bunch of the music, I guess I've been exposed to it in malls at xmastime over the years.
This morning Valerie and I had arranged to join with another friend to go to the Harvard Museum of Natural History, also to which I'd never been. Mostly we spent our time in the geology exhibit with the lovely rocks. The glass flowers were astonishing. I really can't believe they're made of glass! A little time in the dead animals section; nice baleen in the whale skeletons. We didn't spend as much time in the anthropology area as I might have liked, as we were getting hungry by then. I might go back some time, since MA residents are free on Sunday mornings, and I'm often driving Jocelyn to her circus class then.
When I wasn't being cultured, we managed to take out the dock, and I got a short x-country ski in on the new snow. All in all, a good weekend!
Saturday afternoon we went to see a performance of the Nutcracker in which one of Jocelyn's classmates dances as Clara. I'd never seen the Nutcracker before. It was, um, slightly surreal, but the dancers all performed very well and I enjoyed it. I recognized a bunch of the music, I guess I've been exposed to it in malls at xmastime over the years.
This morning Valerie and I had arranged to join with another friend to go to the Harvard Museum of Natural History, also to which I'd never been. Mostly we spent our time in the geology exhibit with the lovely rocks. The glass flowers were astonishing. I really can't believe they're made of glass! A little time in the dead animals section; nice baleen in the whale skeletons. We didn't spend as much time in the anthropology area as I might have liked, as we were getting hungry by then. I might go back some time, since MA residents are free on Sunday mornings, and I'm often driving Jocelyn to her circus class then.
When I wasn't being cultured, we managed to take out the dock, and I got a short x-country ski in on the new snow. All in all, a good weekend!
