RE; Little Joe

Lotta Mozart yesterday.
Johannes Chrisostomus Wolfgangus Gottleib Mozart, that is, not Leo.

Octava Chamber Orchestra at The Chapel played Symphony No 25, Sinfonia Concertante KV 364, and "Andante on a Mozart fragment" by Hans Ueckert.
In precisely the opposite order.
I've always had problems with little Joe's music.Personally I'm more of a Tinaturner/Mahlerite.
That is to say every piece of music should contain a world and should never never be "nice and easy".
Mozart always seems nice and easy.
And a little empty.
Mozart always seems glib and facile to me, as if he learned that entertainment equals survival before he had to grow up. (A theory supported by history)
Maybe if he had survived his fatal illness...

Anyway it sounded very nice.

I went to this performance to meet with Matthew Weiss, who will be playing, along with Alan Sharp, my violin duet at the same venue on 25 Jan 2008, 8:00pm.
I have mentioned this before and I will undoubtedly mention it again.
If you can't make it, listen to it here click "violin duet mp3"

Remind me to call my sister (they don't believe in computers) and invite her and Mack to drive their horse and buggy to the show.

Afterward, I rushed to my book group meeting where Jon Krakauer's "Under Banner of Heaven" was discussed.
The book is about God's dependence on cold blooded murders his will to be done.

Not my God, by the way.

The discussion included the famous "Mountain Meadow Massacre" Americas premier terrorist attack before the Oklahoma bombing. Both now trumped by 9-11.

Do not, whatever else you do, do not vote for Mitt Romney.
If you must vote for a Republican closet queen, make it McCain.