Here are this week's Tonight Show Headlines.
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Here are this week's Tonight Show Headlines.
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These are just really funny.
This evening I went to my friend Ron's house for dinner. He cook some salmon which was really good and also had some green beans, salad and champagne. We then spend the evening playing though music on his pipe organ. He played some organ music and I had some fun sight reading some music on the organ. My organ playing has improved, I even played the pedals. I showed him some fugues I had composed a few years ago which he sight read through. I like how they sound on the organ. It was fun playing music and hanging out with a very good musician.
Here are this week's Tonight Show Headlines.
Headlines
These are just really funny.
Today I co-conducted the Galveston Island Childrens' Choir at a final concert for the semester. They did a good job. I even got a complement on how I was able to get the kids to sing some of the complicated rhythms in one of the pieces I conducted. My friend Ron came to the concert and we went to Mod after the concert. He got a tea and I got an Italian soda and we talked and relaxed downtown.
Yesterday I went with my friend Beth to see a wacked and twisted band called the Brave Combo in Houston at the Continental Club. She has been going to see this band play for over 10 years and really thought I would get a kick out of them. They would take the tune Caravan and turn it into a polka, take Stairway to Heaven into a swing tune, and play the chicken dance in a minor key. It was so much fun. I danced some swing, cha cha and even polka with a few girls. One of them was the prettiest girl in the place. I saw her when I first got there. I finally got up the courage to ask her to dance and got to swing dance with her a few times. Not only is she pretty, but she was also intelligent, articulate, sweet and fun to dance with. Now this was a great evening. Really fun music played by a great band, hanging out with a really cool and fun friend and getting the phone number of the prettiest girl in the place. A successful evening.
Here are this week's Tonight Show Headlines.
Headlines
These are just really funny.
My day began with conducting the Galveston Island Childrens' Chorus in the Grand Opera House here in Galveston.
I co-conducted the choir during the Grand Kids festival.
It was the 1st time I conducted a group on the stage of the Opera House. That part was cool.
This evening George and I went to the symphony. We headed up to Houston and had dinner at Hooters (Ya I know. The food was good also). We then went to hear the Houston Symphony conducted by guest conductor Carlos Kalmar. On the concert was:
Janacek - The Cunning Little Vixen Suite
Grieg - Piano Concerto
Haydn - Symphony No. 47
R. Strauss - Der Rosenkavalier Suite
The Janacek was good. I am not big on suites since there is no transition between sections, it is just this, that and the other kind of piece. The sections in the beginning was the best part of it.
The Grieg was played by pianist Adam Neiman. Everyone knows that I am not big on concertos but this performance of it surprised me. It is not a very difficult concerto so notewise he played it well. He also had a real feel for the piece which was subtle, not too emotional. During the cadenza during the 1st movement I was fixated on his sound and did not realize that he grabbed me until the orchestra came back in. George also really enjoyed the concerto.
The Haydn after intermission was good but it was overshadowed by the Grieg.
The Strauss was big and large sounding. It still is a suite but is had some great moments.
I really like going to the symphony and hearing music played really well by great musicans. It was also nice having someone else with me that also enjoys good music.
Here are some pictures of the theater in Houston.
Here is an article about him:
Pope John Paul II
Here is info about the papal succession:
The Papal Succession
