226: 3 Things....

[smecker]

Name three things that you're looking forward to in the near future and why.

One: May 18th, and the Boston Youth Symphony Orchestra's 50th anniversary evening.

Why I'm looking forward to it: Yo-Yo Ma. What's not to look forward to regarding several hours of God's own fucking gift to contemporary cello?

Oh, and they'll be playing Dvořák. My

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[sand_andwater]

Dvořák is wonderful though I have to admit to being personally fond of his later works, the piano quintets especially.

Do you know which concertos Yo-Yo Ma will be playing?

I'm Pippa Kerr, by the way. I don't mean to butt in unwanted but I couldn't help be a bit giddy over the fact that someone else appreciates classical music and Dvořák in particular isn't someone you often hear praise for.

[smecker]

Cello Concerto No. 1, opus 104, in B minor. Orchestra's also doing Symphony No. 8. I have high hopes.

It is true though. Other than the beloved, by which I mean overplayed, Ninth, Antonín gets little love these days. Frickin' shame, that.

Pleasure to meet you, Miss Kerr. Paul Smecker. You in Boston?

[sand_andwater]

I'm in New York, actually. Sadly, it seems, since I'll be forced to miss a wonderful concert.

I may sound like a bit of a blasphemer for this, but I've never really cared for From the New World. I prefer the Fifth, actually. It was a large departure from his earlier works and I like the change of pace and the 'risk' he took by expanding his particular influences.

[smecker]

Shame. I have a continual problem finding people to take my second ticket. (Seasonal subscription.)

The Fifth? Pass. Barring the second movement, it holds nothing of particular interest that he doesn't do better with the Sixth. And with either of those I'd just as soon hit Beethoven if I'm in the mood for pastoral, thanks.

Now, if you want to talk about the glorious goddamn Seventh, that, I am perfectly willing to grant its superiority over the Ninth.

[alan_shore]

I argued a case before the Supreme Court.

I wouldn't expect the resultant opinion in the near future, however.

[smecker]

Did you now?

Fulfill any childhood, or at least law school, ambitions in doing so? Or did you save the mooning for another time?

[alan_shore]

My childhood ambitions involved pitching at Fenway and being the smartest person on the planet, and it was more of a nose-thumbing.

[smecker]

Simultaneously, I hope?

Pity. Well, I hope your nose-thumbing was conducted with sufficient disrespect to warm the cold, hard cockles of my atrophied heart.