The American Four Seasons

Last night we attended a concert at Harris Concert Hall (not the tent as I was expecting). Before intermission we were treated to a couple of duets each performed by Robert McDuffie and a student.  The second duet included Libby Fayette.  I may have mentioned her before as the winner of the Mozart Concerto competition a few weeks ago. She is excellent and I suspect we will be seeing more of her in the future (not just at AMFS).  After the break Mr. McDuffie and an ensemble of about 20 players (including digital piano/synthesizer) played the US premier of The American Four Season.  It was truly breathtaking.  Even Abe whispered to me that he wondered if we could get that on iTunes !  The audience went crazy with applause and the performers eventually readied their instruments for an encore then burst into a rendition of Vivaldi's Four Seasons, Summer.  It was fantastic.  Sorry, no photos.

This morning I walked down to the box office to get tickets for a couple of events we want to go to tonight.  One is a pre-concert recital by Sylvia Rosenberg and Anton Nel.  Mr. Nel is a friend of Nicolette Solomon, one of the kids' violin teachers.  We will try to go backstage and say hello.  We have already met Ms. Rosenberg a few times and will say hey to her too, if we can.  The main concert which will be in the tent is the Aspen Chamber Symphony with special guest Valeriy Sokolov.  He's the Justin Beiber of classical music.  If you don't know who Justin Beiber is, congratulations.

After I left the box office I found a trail that led down to the Roaring Fork River.  There is a foot bridge there that provided access to the Rio Grande Trail which I followed to the post office.  Along the walk I met a family from Denver and provided a creek-side consult about the woman's octogenarian father who was having some health problems and the man's nonagenarian mother who has macular degeneration.  They have a son who is in medical school but he wasn't with them.

Next I picked up copies of the two daily local newspapers then got a few items at Clark's Market.  Dropped a book off at the library on the way back to the condo.  While I was gone Jamuna was doing some journaling. Here is a shot of what she produced:

Made (burned) grilled cheese sandwiches for lunch.  Abe and Jem are/were practicing.





Right now Mrs. White and Maya are taking a break from some intensive practicing this morning and here I sit for a few minutes.  Next I will head over the the Grateful Deli to get some sandwiches which we will take for our evening meal between the pre-concert and the main concert.  We have not tried this picnic idea yet but I think it will be nice. The weather looks promising.

Here is a view from the kitchen toward the main entrance showing the super computer on which this blog is produced.