I can't get Traffic out of my head...THANKS AMY!!!

[cornontheschwab]

Well, I REALLY had a great day today!!! My only beef is that it didn't last long enough. :) I would have liked it to last FOREVER!!! I met amymich and guided_by_grace at the station...I was soooooooooo glad to see them, because I thought(because my train was late)that I missed them. We went to a coffee shop, then to a GREAT restaurant called the Park Grille(I think).

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and you just can't escape from the sound

[amymich]

Wow, you made it to a computer quickly!

You are correct about the restaurant name. I wore the necklace w/the little colored beads to the Sox game (it matched the vintage Sox shirt I have). It's now my lucky necklace, because the Sox won tonight. :D

The first piece of the Stravinsky set was my favorite. I was telling Annette later on that it evicted an emotion close to fear in me, which was such a departure from the Mozart concerto before it, and really anything I've heard before. I loved it, and I'm going to hunt it down on CD. It was so interesting to experience how opposite Mozart and Stravinsky must have been feeling to create such different music!

You're lucky you got to see Barenboim. I'm also hoping the CSO will put something out containing his "greatest hits" of the recent season(s), since it's his final days with us. Like Annie said, he "dances" when he conducts, and I know he'll be missed here. They better sell a recording!

Re: and you just can't escape from the sound

[cornontheschwab]

Actually, Easy Rider is/was going through my head...over and over...

Take off the lucky Sox necklace, and put on your lucky Cubs necklace!!! :P

I'm so glad that you guys wanted to do the symphony, I would have never thought of it. It's funny, when Annette said that she had a place to take me to, I thought that it was going to be karaoke!!! LOL!!!

Anywho, I had great fun with you two...my only beef was it was too short!!! Then again, from sunrise to late night would have been too short as well...:)

[amymich]

Methinks it would take more than a necklace to make the Cubs lucky! ; P

I had a great time too. I'm glad you enjoyed your time in Chicago!

[cornontheschwab]

Methinks it would take more than a necklace to make the Cubs lucky!

Methinks you're right...:(

Don't hate me but...

[guided_by_grace]

I had my camera in my purse the whole time - meaning to get pictures of us in front of the CSO - and I totally spaced! After the performance, I was so much inside my own head it was hard not to feel like I was a marionette with my limbs pulled this way and that to walk, rather than actively performing the movements myself. I'm sorry I wasn't more "present" at our parting.

I remember leaning over to Amy after the Mozart piece and saying that when the Andante started after the intense solo of the Allegro, it was like something inside me sighed (or something like that). Last night I was reading the program and saw in the write up that "the 'singing' slow movement, by way of contrast, offers pure, unforced lyricism - a quite aria of contentment between two dazzling ensembles." No wonder, eh? It was as if something uncoiled inside me after having been wound up as tight as it could go. And as it released, it sent me floating softly on the air. Can you tell that was my favorite? ;~D And no wonder Amy felt fear during the Stravinsky piece.

btw

[guided_by_grace]

I wore my necklace tonight and got tons of compliments from all the youth. You are SO talented, Mel. =D

Re: btw

[cornontheschwab]

I'm not THAT talented...:)