Recovery

May 22, 2010

We got back from our adventures in Brighton at about 9:30 in the morning. I didn’t even bother to shower. I went straight for my bed where I remained in a coma until 2:30. It was such blissful slumber. When I woke up, I showered which made me feel quite a bit like the earth right after rain. I discovered Michelle was already up (apparently she didn’t really sleep except for little naps here and there throughout the day). The day outside was so glorious that we just had to be outside. We went across the street and found ourselves in, oh wait, Hyde Park! It was so beautiful and lovely. I never get sick of going there. We spent the afternoon blogging away! We came back to eat dinner (pasta, again) and get ready for the concert that evening. The concert we went to was at Cadogan Hall where we heard the Tallis Scholars. I think we would have much preferred to hear the Tallis Scholars again. The concert was put on by the Ealing Choral Society, an amateur volunteer choir with orchestra. They had programmed a fairly difficult concert including Beethoven’s Elegy, Haydn’s Te Deum and Mozart’s Great Mass in C Minor. We also heard by the orchestra Mozart’s Magic Flute Overture and the Guardian Spirit Aria for soprano by Haydn. I really love the literature they chose, but it certainly wasn’t the kind of performance we’ve become accustomed to hear. My favorite thing about the concert was how much the members of the choir really loved what they were doing. Despite all the crazy problems they were having, you could tell that they really love music and they were going for the gusto (one tenor was particularly exuberant and excited). Another really fun thing about the concert was the orchestra which was composed of instrumentalists playing on all period instruments. It was fun to see the very old style strings and woodwind instruments as well as the natural horns which are so incredibly difficult to play. After the concert we came home and Michelle and I took a little bit of time to chat.