Tonight we are in Boulder. We had originally planned to meet Rob and Betsey at the college of music for a concert by the Takacs Quartet, which is in residency at UofC. But Betsey was very tired today and they decided not to go to the concert. We offered to come back to the house and free up Rob to go, but he preferred to stay home, so Ellen and I went by ourselves. It was a wonderful concert. The Takacs quartet, which had its origins in Hungary back in the 70's, is outstanding. They played a quartet by Haydn, a new piece by Carter Pann, a UofC faculty person, and a piano quintet by Franck. Ellen didn't like the Franck (neither did Charles Gounod, who said the piece "raised incompetence to the level of dogma") but I loved it and we both thought the Pann was quite powerful. Haydn was delightful as always. The musicianship was superb. We didn't get out until 9:30 and when we got back to the house, R&B had gone to bed. We'll see them in the morning.
The concert hall, which has an excellent acoustic.
Our drive down from Alpine today was smooth. We left Alpine at about 7:45am and arrived in Boulder a bit after 5pm. So between a 9 and 10 hour drive. Great scenery.
Typical scene out the car window
I read an Alice Munroe short story aloud, and we listened to several lectures on the history of the English language. Very interesting!
We'll miss Max, Paul, and Jenny, but see them again in July. Now we have a chance to enjoy Betsey and Rob again and we hope Betsey has a good week. We will certainly try to help make it so.
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