Thinking Ahead

 

I know it would have been a distraction from plot development, so I’m not proposing any change to the movie, but am I the only one to wonder, on seeing the self-driving cars in Minority Report, if they still run on gasoline?
Porridger’s Almanack (Breakfast of Ganglions)

“This very complete little kitchen of ours,” said Mortimer, "in which nothing will ever be cooked—” “My dear, dear Mortimer," returned his friend, lazily lifting his head a little to look at him, “how often have I told you that its moral influence is the important thing?”
Dickens, Our Mutual Friend

Still not concerning myself with the next composition, but what I’m thinking for our 8 April King’s Chapel date is:

Sunshade and Earthquake

Henning, Music for the Un-Hip Hop, Op. 178 (première) 6:30
Alan Westby, The Quiet Girl (revised version) 7:00
Henning, Surfing an Earthquake, Op. 190 (première) 6:30
Henning, Dark Side of the Sun, Op. 193 (première) 8:30

Of the photo, taken by a fellow conductor here in Boston, who borrowed some octavos. She writes: this is one reason I always go through and erase them!