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Monday, January 15, 2007

Cultural Weekend

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CC is listening to: Allegro con Spirito--Rodrigo (The Instruments of Classical Music: Guitar and Lute)

Steve and I had an awesome cultural weekend :-).

Saturday morning he and I went to the Germantown Performing Arts Center to watch the dress rehearsal for the Iris Chamber Orchestra with guest and featured guitarist Jason Vieaux.

I hadn't really listened to Jaxon Vieaux's work, but I was SO pleasantly surprised when I recognized the pieces they were performing--they were the first two tracks of one of my favorite CDs: The Instruments of Classical Music: The Guitar and Lute.

You should ask Steve how excited I was--my back shot straight up, I leaned forward, I had a huge smile on my face, and I was tapping the melody on Steve's thigh :-).

Then after the dress rehearsal, we had lunch, then went to the apartment to kill time before we watched Curse of the Golden Flower.

Then Sunday, it was gray and rainy. Perfect weather to spend indoors at a museum :-).

We had lunch at the Brooks Museum's restaurant called the Brushmark. They had excellent food :-).

Then we toured the museum. The website talked about an audio tour, but it wasn't available that day. I enjoyed the Renaissance, the Medieval Treasury, and the Antiquities sections. My favorite painting was one that I thought was done by Caravaggio, but it turns out it was done by one of Caravaggio's students. It was amazing how the style was so remarkably similar.

Music, Film, and Art--it was a great weekend :-)

Labels: Arts

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