Bronze (66/365g)

Brian spent his day at a dance workshop just outside of Graz, which he ran/bussed to from his Park Run this morning.

Theodore had his Prima la Musica organ competition. I went to pick up flowers for his teacher Maria from the florist, and also flowers for Eva B for tonight's concert. Theodore played really well, but the jury was not so impressed. They were bugged by the fact that the pieces were "difficult" and that he wasn't wearing shoes. He got a Bronze prize, the rough equivalent of a "C" grade, but I was proud of him regardless! I went right on from there to rush to get the painting hung on the wall in the gemahltes house. Nadja was just back from Vienna after doing her final recital for her university studies last night. Today was the first time seeing the music, but she played great. We had told her we would rather she sightread with us than send a replacement. Our Frauen Konzert was a great success, Theodore took photos and did the recordings, but I couldn't get the other kids to come.  

300 days to go till the end of the year! (65/365g)

What a crazy day! I had the final dress rehearsal for the women's concert that's tomorrow night and eva was crying on the floor when i got there having a nervous breakdown. it somehow only took me 12 minutes from finishing playing to the apotheke to get my iron injection. After the injection I watched Lydia's funeral over Zoom, which was an experience I did not love very much. It made me sad, but also felt very distant and bizarre.

While I was participating in the funeral, Brian was loading up the lastenrad for our evening Contra Dance, which went great. Eva J even played bandoneon for the piece she wrote. we presented 26 different women tunes and 12 women choreographers. Was really fun.

fiddle tunes by ladies (64/365g)

I cancelled my Baroque lesson and chamber music practice today because everything is just too much after work. "Instead," I had a rehearsal with Eva B and then a contra dance rehearsal. We are playing all fiddle tunes by women, some are definitely better than others - i guess that's true for the tunes by dudes too... 

taking time off school to do other school but not the right school (63/365g)

Theodore took day off of school to practice organ, but instead he just did math problems for fun. Hard to get angry at him for doing math... but it was very annoying. 

busy day with a full to do list, full day of work at the computer, and then a busy evening, went to see Eva play tango music at Pierre's and went for a long walk with Sina and took a photo of Theodore at the organ. 

Fancy stage (62/365g)

 Con Fuoco concert. Easy peasy, and fun. Always feels so nice to be playing on the big stage even if it's just a little 40 minute concert in honor of 90 and 100 year old birthdays. In the break I sat alone at Cafe Erde, which I just really enjoyed. 

there's good news and bad news (61/365g)

Woke up to the news that Iran's Ayatolla had been killed. Spent way too much time worrying about world events.

Contra dance rehearsal with Phil, all new pieces to learn for Friday, got through about 70% of them. House is a mess, chaotic, now music is all over the floor too. 

We're playing all tunes written by women, which is a gigantic amount of research, and then we still have to try things out. 

Brian and Felix got back at midnight where I was already long asleep. At least I saw a good news report of them finding the 19th century film that captured a robot. "A newly rediscovered 1897 short by famed French filmmaker Georges Méliès is being hailed as the first-ever depiction of a robot in cinema." 

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