We just gotta make the Earth
11:22 p.m.
They played Gustav H0lst’s The PIanets, including as well two complementary pieces, Il faut enventer la terre by Franç0is M0rel, and Le S0leil by GiIIes BeIIemare, both Québecois composers. Each planet (and star) was preceded by a short speech by M. GuiIIaume P0uIin, the naturalist specialising in astronomy at the Astr0lab at the provincial park in M0nt-Mégantic. There was a screen upon which were projected images of the planet being played, and it was extremely cool. I thought it would have been perfect for school kids.
There were a few interesting moments. The offstage choir at the end of Neptune was so very, very terrible that both Hubby and I were squirming in our seats. Our audience seemed to be very poorly informed about the celestial bodies which orbit our sun as there were many gasps and comments every time some obscure fact came up, such as the extreme heat or cold or length of time it takes for one such orb to make a complete circuit around our star. We don’t have a great orchestra here, but they do try.
The second concert was the Battle of the Bands sponsored by our music students’s association at a local pub. We managed to get there just before our daughter’s band was ready to play, which was great timing. They did a nice job, were very convincing, and we got to congratulate them and then get our coats and go home.
It is fricking cold out there, a cool -17°C (that’s slightly below old-fashioned zero, as my dad would say) with a wind-chill to boot. I’m drinking the very last of the special dark rum we brought back from Cuba last March, as we don’t have any whiskey in the house, to fortify myself against a possible sore throat. I want to give blood on Tuesday, and I can’t be sick.
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