Other than a little cough, I'm finally well again. Wrist/hand also back to normal. Today I actually got to practice the cello. To celebrate I went to Amazon and bought stuff.
Tonight was the last night of a Charles Ives Festival by New World Symphony here in Miami.
Hubby was so excited when we went Friday night. There was a lecture before the concert which featured Ives' various experimental works - The Unanswered Question, Central Park in the Dark, Trio for Violin, Cello and Piano, From the Steeples and Mountains, Scherzo: Over the Pavements, and the famous "Three Places in New England" set. Hubby hasn't been this enthused over a concert for a long time.
Saturday featured Ives' Holidays Symphony. The first half of the concert had the choir sing the hymns, popular, war, and college songs that Ives quoted in his Holidays Symphony. Intermission seemed to take forever and then the Holiday Symphony which started interesting enough just seemed to drag. It became a long evening.
Tonight was Ives' Sonata #2 for Piano "Concord, MA" followed by another long intermission and then an orchestration version of the sonata. By the end of the evening, we were Ives' out and I had a headache. There's not a whole lot of form to the pieces and as far as I was concerned the Emerson and Thoreau sections could have been struck from the program (or at least shortened in half). At least Hawthorne had some musical humor and there were some lyrical sections to Alcott. All in all we were glad that the festival was over. I don't think we could have stood another evening of Ives.
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