May 2012
16 posts
Grange Hall Show
At one time, the Grange Hall was the social and cultural center of our small town. That was back before electricity arrived in the ‘20’s and good roads, radio and television broadened recreational opportunities.
When the Grange disbanded a few years ago, the town renovated the old building and it now hosts regular musical events and meetings. Art work remained difficult to display -...
Conservation of bad behavior
Just by chance the other day, I happened to read Arthur Conan Doyle’s Scandal in Bohemia right after seeing the PBS show, Sherlock’s version of the same story.
The modern Sherlock is handsome and plausible, if rather too fast talking when explicating clues, but the woman, Irene Adler, is another matter.
In the original, she is an opera singer of talent on the verge of marriage. She...
Videos
I’ve been neglecting tumblr lately, but our son has been hard at work getting ready for the Champions League Final in Munich.
Check out one of his videos- and his sports coverage of the event.
http://msn.foxsports.com/topics/m/video/56721413/munich-is-the-place-to-be.htm#q=trecker+video
Giro d'Italia
The Giro is well underway, with stage 10 today ( Wednesday). The stages seem to have been modified since last year’s over- the- top in difficulty circuit, perhaps in response to the death of Wouter Weylandt on stage 3 last season.
However, the race has still be marred by crashes and a number of fine riders have either left the Giro or seen their prospects for the GC radically diminished....
Beaver Lodge
I’ve been lax with tumblr recently, as I have been working on a novella, but I haven’t been neglecting birding. In the last two days, I’ve seen hooded warblers, tanagers, redstarts and orioles, with probable red eyed vireos. Today it was the great crested flycatcher and the wood peewee, plus yellow warblers.
But the most interesting creature today was the beaver, just a brown...
Migration
Towhees are back, rose breasted grosbeaks are back, and the first wood thrush of the spring was singing in the mist yesterday.
Handel & Haydn
We went Sunday to hear a performance by our oldest American musical ensemble, the Handel & Haydn Society. This time they added Mozart to the mix and featured one of their own products, the rising soprano Teresa Wakim, who gave a lovely account of the aria Exsultate Jubilate and the soprano part of the Coronation Mass.
Although all the other pieces on the program had, or have, been used at...
