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It's hard on a highly respectable man
Apparently it is culture weekend. On Thursday, I heard Susan Cooper read a remembrance of John Langstaff and the Revels at the Cambridge Public Library. (The reading was for Cambridge Voices, but she was gracious enough to sign my old trade paperback of The Grey King.) Last night I met ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
fleurdelis28 at the BU Theatre for Carlisle Floyd's Susannah, with a pre-show talk by the composer and Phyllis Curtin. (It is one of my favorite operas, an Appalachian murder ballad with apocryphal roots; I've had the 1962 recording with Curtin and Norman Treigle since I was a junior at Brandeis, but I'd never seen a production.) And tonight, thanks to the magic of the half-price ticket kiosk in Copley Square, we're going to see Coppélia at the Boston Ballet. (It's a comic ballet based on "Der Sandmann." I can't even figure out how that should work, but you expect me not to see it?) Right, and it's also my father's birthday observed. Just in case there wasn't enough going on.
And someone on WERS just finished singing Irving Berlin's "Oh, How I Hate to Get Up in the Morning," which I can respect very much. I was standing in the rain at ten in the morning to ask about ballet tickets. I felt like the opening scenes of The Red Shoes, or possibly Elizabeth Enright's The Saturdays. I'll go with the latter; it decreases my chances of ending up folklorically dead.
fleurdelis28 at the BU Theatre for Carlisle Floyd's Susannah, with a pre-show talk by the composer and Phyllis Curtin. (It is one of my favorite operas, an Appalachian murder ballad with apocryphal roots; I've had the 1962 recording with Curtin and Norman Treigle since I was a junior at Brandeis, but I'd never seen a production.) And tonight, thanks to the magic of the half-price ticket kiosk in Copley Square, we're going to see Coppélia at the Boston Ballet. (It's a comic ballet based on "Der Sandmann." I can't even figure out how that should work, but you expect me not to see it?) Right, and it's also my father's birthday observed. Just in case there wasn't enough going on.And someone on WERS just finished singing Irving Berlin's "Oh, How I Hate to Get Up in the Morning," which I can respect very much. I was standing in the rain at ten in the morning to ask about ballet tickets. I felt like the opening scenes of The Red Shoes, or possibly Elizabeth Enright's The Saturdays. I'll go with the latter; it decreases my chances of ending up folklorically dead.
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Mornings are no fun, but I'm glad you got your tickets. Glad also that you're going with The Saturdays, as opposed to the Hans Christian Andersen story.
Happy Birthday Observed to your father!
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I had an excellent time. I may post about it tomorrow once sleep has actually been achieved.
Glad also that you're going with The Saturdays, as opposed to the Hans Christian Andersen story.
Well, I like Hans Christian Andersen . . . (I was thinking more of the Powell and Pressburger film, which opens with a gang of students all racing up to the balcony to catch the best cheap seats.)
Happy Birthday Observed to your father!
I'll tell him!
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Grand. I hope you've slept well.
Well, I like Hans Christian Andersen . . .
I do as well, but I don't much like the idea of my friends being characters in his stories, as the things that tend to happen to his characters are the sorts of things that would prevent them writing any more poems or interesting LJ posts. I'd miss you.
(I was thinking more of the Powell and Pressburger film, which opens with a gang of students all racing up to the balcony to catch the best cheap seats.)
Ah, okay.
I'll tell him!
Thanks!