Meetings today. Milena phoned from America and told us to wait on the Pronunciation Course until she returned. She’s bringing 3 Applemacs, but she’s not sure if we have space to use them.
Home. Only one hour’s writing, the start of Act III of the play, (now untitled) but it made me feel virtuous.
At 7:3o attended a concert by the Leningrad String Quartet1 at the House of Russian Culture. They played Mozart, String Quartet in G, K 387, Shostakovich’s 9th String Quartet, something negligible by Dvorak and an encore, which sounded more negligible yet.
A few minutes before the start I thought the audience would only outnumber the players two-to-one. But the final audience was around thirty, although there was room for twice as many. I enjoyed the Mozart very much. The Shostakovich could have started better, but eventually got going.
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Out from the library at the moment;
E.M.Forster – Abinger Harvest
Aldous Huxley – Antic Hay
- The Pan Book of Chess
Aldous Huxley – Letters
Shakespeare – Plays
Bertrand Russell – ABC of Relativity
Bought recently
Ray Blount Jr. – About Three Bricks Shy of a Load2
Bought today –
A large plastic chess set.
Likely the String Quartet of the Leningrad Conservatory, soon to be renamed the St. Petersburg String Quartet. Alla Aranovskaya (violin), Ilya Teplyakov (second violin), Andrey Gadadin (viola) and Leonid Shukaev (cello). They released an album of Shostakovich quartets a couple of years later that was nominated for a Grammy.
Subtitle explains it all: A Highly Irregular Lowdown on the Year the Pittsburgh Steelers Were Super but Missed the Bowl. The kind of book tourists take on their travels, and happily leave behind for someone else to read.