Movies, Bikes, Sherman

Last night we checked out Sherman Alexie's "The Business of Fancydancing" from the library partially because I wanted to see if I was in it.
I made it to screen for a second more or lass. Mentioned in the credits, too.
It was a crowd scene shot at Hugo House that a friend of mine (part of the book group) got me involved in.

Loads of fun.

Then, today I actually took on two tasks involving physical labor.
Mowed the lawn and rode the bike.

In one day!!!

14.1 miles in 1:15:44 hours at an 11.1 average with a 42.5 mph top speed for an accumulated total of 841 miles with temperatures in the 70 - 80 degree range

If I'm not careful, I'll be putting in 8-hour days again.
Like those poor Seattle Symphony workers.
Difference being, I don't have to, Gerry.
Plus I can actually enjoy myself.

As I'm doing right this very moment

I even managed to climb the hill on the freeway overpass.
Whew!
And Plus Also the Dead Horse Canyon Holyoke street hill that used to be a walker.

I tell ya, this "old age thing" is nowhere as awful as it was made out to be.

Why, I never felt better in my li...ack!.....

We've just hired a girl named Maria

I've just swiped this from a link to NYC posted by Zach Carstensen on Gathering Note

Gathering Note

But it’s the New York Times that comes closest to what appears to have happened:

Last summer the orchestra’s music director, Gerard Schwarz, named a quartet of violinists, including Ms. Larionoff, to share the post, saying “it doesn’t make sense” to have one person, given the length of the season. On Friday Mr. Schwarz called the arrangement a “tremendous artistic success” but said Ms. Larionoff, the associate concertmaster since 1997, would take over. “The way she has embraced this new position speaks volumes about her remarkable talent and ability to lead the orchestra,” he said. Tom Philion, the executive director, said the other three players — Ani Kavafian, Emmanuelle Boisvert and Frank Almond — would continue to appear with the orchestra.

What’s not answered is the question of where Ms. Larionoff sits when one of the other three is present. If she moves to second chair (or even sits home on paid leave), then what really has changed?

And what about tenure? She was tenured as a member of the orchestra. But concertmasters in Seattle don’t have tenure; they are concertmaster so long as the music director wants them to be, and no longer. Did she give up job security in exchange for a title that doesn’t really change how things work?

There’s clearly more here than meets the eye, or at least the eye of the press. What is clear is that this doesn’t resolve the Seattle concertmaster situation. Instead, it looks more like a face-saving way to continue along the same screwy path that the SSO has embarked upon. Which, given the balance of power within the SSO, is not really a surprise.

I added the italics
Screwy is the word all right.
I would have used "un"-balance of power.
Not a lot of mentis composition there.

As Gerry himself says "it doesn't make sense"

Who's to argue with him?


Anyway I've been told that my letter to the editor of the Seattle times will be printed tomorrow.
It's not about the SSO

It's about the New Yorker