Well, dear readers, I am sitting here like so much fish, listening to a Schubert string quartet, a famous one, entitled Death and the Maiden, this version orchestrated by someone named Gustav Mahler, a guy who could write music himself. It’s quite Mahlerian in a Schubert sort of way, not that I’m any expert on Schubert. I am quite a fan of Mahler, as most of you know – a guy who could write music himself. This is a very nice recording conducted by Franz Weiser-Most. The companion piece I know very well, the chamber symphony of Franz Schreker, a guy who could write music himself. I wonder if Schubert ever ate sherbet? I wonder if Mahler was fond of listening to a piece of Mahler’s? Also, whilst cleaning up some stuff on my desktop, I found two operas that I must listen to – I think they’ve been there for a couple of months, and I simply forgot about them. I was going to try and watch a motion picture earlier but that didn’t pan out, although what a pan has to do with is anyone’s guess. We got our first review for our show, and while he didn’t care all that much for the show itself, he did like the production a lot and enjoyed himself despite his caveats about the show. Speaking of caveats, I’m not really sure why, but a lot of food I’ve ordered in recently has not been up to par, which is just pan with an R instead of an N. I mean, some of my very reliable jernts haven’t been up to snuff, which is just snu with two Fs. Yesterday was another of those days. I ordered two small cheesesteak sandwiches from Charley’s, a reliable chain in the nearby mall. While they’re not the best Philly cheesesteak sandwiches, they’ve always been fresh and tasty. The two small ones only amounted to under 800 calories. I got the Philly cheesesteak and the original cheesesteak. They arrived pretty quickly. But both sandwiches were very sloppily made, especially the original – there was more melted cheese in the box than on the sandwich. And the Philly was a bit of a mess, with meat having fallen out of the sandwich, and the whole thing being unwieldy. I ate that one first, and the meat was dry and kind of rank-tasting. The other one was even worse. Turns out there are new owners, so I do hope they get their stuff together. Speaking of together, I did get eight hours of sleep, so that was nice. I had a nice telephonic conversation with Kay Cole to begin the day. Then I spent some time organizing stuff on the computer, since the desktop had quite a few things I no longer needed. I also found the two operas, one by Arthur Benjamin, a composer I’m really fond of, and the other by Darius Milhaud, another composer I’m really fond of.
I mostly relaxed, caught up on stuff, had another nice telephonic conversation, this time with dear reader Jeanne, had no modern major miracles, but basically, I just hibernated in the home environment, which is what I needed, and then I made a little pasta with butter and cheese, basically just to get the cheesesteak taste out of my mouth.
Today, I’ll be up when I’m up, I’ll do whatever needs doing, I’ll pray for a few modern major miracles, I’ll start preparing the fun extra everyone will get who bought Kritzer World from Kritzerland, I’ll also begin prepping two new CD releases. I’ll eat something, perhaps visit the mail place to see if anything of interest is there, and then I’ll watch, listen, and relax. Still have several CDs to listen to that have been sitting on the couch like so much fish for a while.
Tomorrow, I may Zoom with David Wechter, then in the evening we have a brush-up rehearsal. Not sure if we’ll run the entire show, but for sure we’ll run all the numbers and most of the major scenes so I can clean up stuff that’s gotten a little sloppy for my taste. Then I’ll work on the project with David Wechter and keep relaxing.
Well, dear readers, I must take the day, I must do the things I do, I must, for example, be up when I’m up, do whatever needs doing, pray for some modern major miracles, start preparing the fun Kritzer World extra, start preparing two new CD releases, eat, maybe visit the mail place, and then watch, listen, and relax. Today’s topic of discussion: What are the best Philly cheesesteak sandwiches you’ve had, where from, and how were they made? Let’s have loads of lovely postings, shall we, whilst I hit the road to dreamland, happy to have heard when Mahler was Schubert.