A Fresh Acquaintance

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For yesterday’s Pride Celebration concert cum drag show (my first) the Lowell Chamber Orchestra was represented by an excellent string quintet. At the reception I made the acquaintance of the cellist, who I rather suspect has participated in prior LCO concerts I’ve attended, so really there’s little reason why we might not have struck an acquaintance sooner. And once again I meet a colleague here in Massachusetts who tells me, “I’ve heard your name.” So call me unknown, but not completely unknown, thank you very much. And I am gratified to have been granted leave to send some Henningmusick to another excellent colleague. I’m sending not only the vc/pf pieces Nicodemus brings myrrh and aloes for the burial of the Christ and Valentine but also the string quartet version of  it’s all in your head (not that that’s a bad place for everything to be) I know better (if indeed it be better) than to take the good feeling of a moment as necessarily indicative of any big change in the foertunes of this or that piece. But I’ll register the good feeling with gratitude, all the same,

Also, four years ago today:

So, I was kind of thinking, "What am I going to do with m.95ff.?" And then I happened to listen to the Debussy Nocturnes. 16 June 2021