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As I posted on Friday, the university's symphony concert time had been moved from 7:30 to 8 pm, and the library had closed at 7 pm. Both of these were tiresome at the time. However!
When I got home on Friday, I looked online to see if they really had updated the concert time on the website. If I hadn't done that, I wouldn't have discovered that the lovely mezzo-soprano from the Santa Cecilia event (and various previous baroque concerts) was having her doctoral recital on Saturday afternoon. And that turned out to be truly amazing - her performance was profound. I am not an opera fan, with a few exceptions, but her operatically trained voice is so lovely, and the pieces so emotionally affecting, that it was an experience I will long treasure. And! I congratulated her at the reception, and she actually remembered me! (I'd asked her a few years ago if she was related to one of my childhood classmates with the same last name, and although she's an Oregon native, she didn't know him.) Also! The Italian professor I'd met last year and had hoped to get to know better came and sat near me, and we chatted during the breaks and afterwards, so I was so happy to reconnect with her.
(Even the library part turned out better - if it had been open on Friday I could have gotten the one book I was looking for, but I wouldn't have had time to discover four books nearby that I then also wanted to get, which I could and did do on Saturday.)
Today I went to my third concert in a row - this one for the clarinet orchestra. A few of the pieces were great; the rest were more along the lines of an amiable buzzing sound. I hadn't been in this particular church before, and it was overly warm, but I had a friend (HS) to sit with.
When I got home on Friday, I looked online to see if they really had updated the concert time on the website. If I hadn't done that, I wouldn't have discovered that the lovely mezzo-soprano from the Santa Cecilia event (and various previous baroque concerts) was having her doctoral recital on Saturday afternoon. And that turned out to be truly amazing - her performance was profound. I am not an opera fan, with a few exceptions, but her operatically trained voice is so lovely, and the pieces so emotionally affecting, that it was an experience I will long treasure. And! I congratulated her at the reception, and she actually remembered me! (I'd asked her a few years ago if she was related to one of my childhood classmates with the same last name, and although she's an Oregon native, she didn't know him.) Also! The Italian professor I'd met last year and had hoped to get to know better came and sat near me, and we chatted during the breaks and afterwards, so I was so happy to reconnect with her.
(Even the library part turned out better - if it had been open on Friday I could have gotten the one book I was looking for, but I wouldn't have had time to discover four books nearby that I then also wanted to get, which I could and did do on Saturday.)
Today I went to my third concert in a row - this one for the clarinet orchestra. A few of the pieces were great; the rest were more along the lines of an amiable buzzing sound. I hadn't been in this particular church before, and it was overly warm, but I had a friend (HS) to sit with.