Had a pleasant birthday on Monday. On Tuesday I tried to do an 84 mile ride into the southern Green Mountains, but after hitting a pothole at about 40 mph I had to "limp" home on two bent rims and an unglued spare front tire. Still, it was a pretty 37 mile ride.
We went to see Design for Living, a Noel Coward play about a triangle of sorts among two men and a woman. It was hard to develop much interest in three characters who seemed much more concerned about their place in the world than the world.
Wednesday we volunteered at Tanglewood where the Duetsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen ( try to say that three times fast) gave a great all Brahms concert. Paavo Jarvi, conducted and Lars Vogt was the pianist. The program included the Academic Festival Overture, the First Piano Concerto, the Second Symphony, and a Hungarian Dance as an encore. The second piece is a difficult one with many beautiful ideas and themes, not always well integrated; how like much of life. It was played as well as I have ever heard with all the drama and melody one could ask for. The orchestral pieces were similarly well played with all their romantic and emotional facets well displayed.
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