Schermerhorn Two
& a Satisfying Saturday
So Friday night I went to the first regular performance on my NSO season ticket. One sad thing, I had some really amazing seats to the preview concert — Orchestra row C and dead center — so it was really hard going back to the ghetto seats in the balcony : )
Ah well, next year perhaps.. anyway they tried to design the place so there wasn’t a bad seat in the house, and I think they pretty well succeeded, I had no real complaints except by contrast.
Musically the highlight was the Symphony No. 5 by Shostakovich. I mentioned before my love affair with his 11th Symphony — well coincidentally at that same time I went out & bought a CD of the 5th as well. So it was quite a treat to find this piece up first in the season. I don’t think the 5th is nearly as good as the 11th, but it definately has some wonderfully dramatic moments.
Yesterday then I woke to a pretty busy schedule. Yoga in the morning as usual, followed by the ACLU-TN annual membership meeting in the afternoon, where we heard a speaker talking about the “Surveillance Industrial Complex” — chilling stuff. I am so grateful that we have a group like the ACLU fighting this stuff. There’e barely anything left of our 1st and 4th ammendments these days, and we have the ACLU to thank for most of what we’ve managed to keep.
From there it was pretty much straight up to Port Royal State Park for a cookout with some Nashville Gothic peeps. After some nice food & social we caravaned up the road to the Bell Witch Cave for the deluxe 2+ hour cave & cabin tour. Very very cool, great fun, highly recommended. I have to wonder though if having 30 or so goth kids descend on them at once might be scarier than anything the proprietors have ever seen from the witch : )
But it didn’t end there — I landed back in Nashvile around 11:20 PM — just in time to catch Donnie Darko playing the late show at the Belcourt. Great movie! I can’t believe I’d never heard about it before.
Now lets see what sort of fun I can find today…
