Perfect concert day
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matrixrefugeeA bit of news I meant to post a day or two ago: the grower my dad works for supplies plants to decorate the stage at Symphon Hall in Boston... so the company head got several free tickets to one of the Boston Pops concerts, namely to their "Pops at the Beach" concert in Hyannis. As he was telling my dad about this, dad started to ask if there were any spare tickets, but his boss cut him off at the pass: "Hardly anyone uses them... would you want them?" Of course my dad, whose favorite price is "free", jumped at the chance.
Turns out, they were VIP seating tickets worth at least $150 a piece. Which meant we not only had a great view of the stage, but we also had complimentary soda, chips, a cheese platter, and a goodie bag with all kinds of nick-nacks (pens, playing cards, a corkscrew, pads of paper, and doodads like that).
Keith Lockhart conducted a program of Broadway and Hollywood music, including several of my favorites: the overture to "Ben Hur" and the main title theme for "Lawrence of Arabia". My dad was trying to find some way for me to meet the maestro, but that didn't pan out. There's always next year!
The weather couldn't have been more delightful either: sunny with a lovely breeze off the ocean...
The only fly in the ointment today: I just suspended my MxO account, so now there's some sadness creeping into my heart as I finish this entry. For all the trouble people caused me on there, I miss them all, already. But... I found one of my all time favorite Disney clips, via GAFF:
Night on Bald Mountain, from "Fantasia" (unfortunately, two of the more gleefully dangerous headspace-dwellers are getting more of a kick out of it than I'd really like to be privy to...). Now, If I could just find the "Ave Maria" sequence that immediately follows it in the movie, I'll be a happy oddball.
Turns out, they were VIP seating tickets worth at least $150 a piece. Which meant we not only had a great view of the stage, but we also had complimentary soda, chips, a cheese platter, and a goodie bag with all kinds of nick-nacks (pens, playing cards, a corkscrew, pads of paper, and doodads like that).
Keith Lockhart conducted a program of Broadway and Hollywood music, including several of my favorites: the overture to "Ben Hur" and the main title theme for "Lawrence of Arabia". My dad was trying to find some way for me to meet the maestro, but that didn't pan out. There's always next year!
The weather couldn't have been more delightful either: sunny with a lovely breeze off the ocean...
The only fly in the ointment today: I just suspended my MxO account, so now there's some sadness creeping into my heart as I finish this entry. For all the trouble people caused me on there, I miss them all, already. But... I found one of my all time favorite Disney clips, via GAFF:
Night on Bald Mountain, from "Fantasia" (unfortunately, two of the more gleefully dangerous headspace-dwellers are getting more of a kick out of it than I'd really like to be privy to...). Now, If I could just find the "Ave Maria" sequence that immediately follows it in the movie, I'll be a happy oddball.
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Date: 2007-08-07 07:31 pm (UTC)~Weaver