SUCH a beautiful day
brigitta and i played through gourzi and made a first tentative "recording" (so we could hear it and decide interpretation questions) in the morning
lots of monday stuff, including all the choirs, we all biked together and enjoyed the sun.
in the evening i took theodore and henry to a concert at the opera to hear somebody play the clarke sonata. the pianist was terrible, but there was a great general description of modern music (not for the clarke, for a truly modern piece) and the two kids were so good at listening to concert!
the description went as follows. first everyone in the audience was given a piece of paper. we got to experiment to see what noises we could make with the paper without actually destroying it (as in not folding, tearing, crumpling, etc) ... then we tried to see how silently we could exchange papers with our neighbor. then one of the performers (actually charley, who happens to be the conductor of henry's orchestra) walked from one end of the hall to the other telling us to first exchange the paper silently, then make the noise, then exchange our paper again in the time it took to walk. And the main instruction was to listen!
It was pretty brilliant!
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