JOB VIBES FOR THE NIECE OF DR TCB!
I heard from an old school friend the other day. He was throwing out stuff and came across a photograph that he thought would have involved me, and he asked if I'd like to have it. I certainly did, and he mailed it to me.While waiting for it to arrive, I realized how few photos I have from my college years -- not just of me, but of anyone or anything I was involved with. Like, practically none. How could that be? Well, I thought about it, and can only say that during those years, I had no camera at school with me and I just wasn't in a picture taking mode. That was the case with almost everyone I knew. If there was a photo of a concert or something, it would have been something the local newspaper published, or one the school had used in its catalogs or other publicity. In short, to say that the photographic evidence in those days was nothing like it is today would be the understatement of the millennium.That's why even the surfacing of this photo meant something. It's a Polaroid on heavy card stock that had survived the years by being kept in a box. The friend had snapped it while visiting and observing a rehearsal at Meadow Brook, the summer music festival at Oakland University in Michigan, in June 1969.I think you can click to enlarge. The young James Levine is conducting. I'm standing in back, second from right, playing something in the percussion section (don't remember what) in Pictures at an Exhibition. At first I thought I was the one on chimes, but I think not in that piece. (Must investigate. I have a recording of the concert a few days later, and that might jog my memory.) I know all who were there, but they're hard to pick out. Lynn Harrell, cellist, is visible. Michael Ouzounian, later principal violist at the Met, is in there. Jorja Fleezanis, future concertmaster of the Minnesota Orchestra, is on the second desk behind Tania Rudensky, concertmaster here who later married Met baritone Cornell MacNeil. Two players who in 2017 achieved notoriety re their personal histories with Levine, are present. And so it goes. Interesting times. I only wish I had a hundred such photos.
I am hogging the internet today, but as promised, here are a few shots of the rural cemetery oft discussed.This is about 20 minutes from my house.
Every cat's dream:
Then I went to get some Panda Express - only I didn't because the car battery was dead, as I knew it would be because I knew something hadn't shut down properly but there was nothing I could do about it. So, for the first time, I pulled out the new battery charger, hooked it up and voila - started right up. So, this thing has already paid for itself and thank goodness I bought it.
Then I made some mushroom dip to use up the rest of the mushrooms I had. I doubt what I came up with is even close to what the recipe wanted, but I am enjoying it.
Did anyone watch Dateline on Friday? Mom missed the end of of the story because of a tornado watch. So I Googled it for her. What a weird, weird tale. https://people.com/crime/mother-god-dateline-special-examines-mysterious-death-of-amy-carlson/
Anybody have an opinion about Samsung TVs? Best Buy is selling a 70-inch TV for less than $600.
I actually don’t even know if I have room for a 70-inch TV.
