It's All About the Benjamins

Jump to Comments Woohoo. Yeah, I normally cover Fridays in the standard Weekend Update, but, due to the screwyness of this week, I’m writing one for Friday, and then doing one for Saturday-Monday, and then a Tuesday, per usual.

So, another one of these super-short half days at skizzool. Nothing there of any import– dang is school boring without lunch, seriously. Invited Seamus and Doggimus Maximus over to the hizzy afterwards, hung out, had tacos, played video games, blah blah blah. Slept or soemthing the rest of the afternoon, although, before that, I got a haircut, which was full of the good, I guess. It’s not too short, which is important.

In the everning, went to the symphony downtown. Had some steak first at one of the bigshot restaraunts (which pales in comparison to The Mafiaraunt, but was still good). Ribeye, steak fries, tomato juice, pumpernickel, coke, mushrooms, shrimp cocktail, a bit of rasberry cheescake, but not necessarily in that order.

Oh, the symphony was awesome, as should be expected. Here’s the lowdown from the program.

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CLASSICAL SERIES / Program Five
Friday, November 8, 2002 at 8 p.m.
Saturday, November 9, 2002 at 8 p.m.

ANNE MANSON, Conductor
GLORIA CHENG, Piano

BARTOK Romanian Folk Dances
-Jocul cu bâ´¡
-Br⵬
-Pe loc
-Buciumeana
-Poarga rom⮥asca
-Maruntel
-Maruntel

HARRISON Concerto for Piano
-Allegro
-Stampede, Allegro
-Largo
-Allegro moderato
Gloria Cheng, Piano

Intermission

STRAVINSKYPé´²ouchka (1947 revision)
-The Shrovetide Fair
-Petrouchka’s Cell
-The Moor’s Cell
-The Fair (towards evening)

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Yeah, buy, borrow, or steal. It was pretty dang good. The stuff by Harrison, a contemporary composer (or whatever) was done with some alternate note temperament. I’m no musical expert, but from the way the program described it, the sharps and flats and stuff are tuned a little different from the main sequence, so that they make 4ths and 5ths of each other, or something. (The specific variation or whatever for those in the know wis ‘Kirnberger’s #2 well-temperament’, yeah.) It sounded pretty cool.

Also, according to Seamus, our team recieved TEH WIN over McCutchawhatever. Now the football team is off to Regionals, w00t. They better win state, dangit– getting off an entire school day when they did in ’96 so totally roxxored.