Monday, June 18, 2007
I'm still in DC, with free time on my hands to enjoy the many cultural events, friends and family in the area. A great opportunity to catch up on things that were largely missing iduring my sojourn in the "third world."
There was a choral concert at the National Cathedral on Saturday. The major work was the Bach Magnificat. The Cathedral is very impressive, heroic in all its dimensions and design. Unfortunately, cathedral acoustics do not favor the intricacies of the Magnificat, and I would have preferred to hear the work in a much less grandiose setting. I guess singing all those years with the Philadelphia Choral Arts Society has made me too critical of things like that.
On Sunday, I attended the Arlington UU Church, along with
Our group included cousin Natalie, Allegra, Manuel Jesus (MJ),
Monday evening I attended the premier screening of the National Geographic program The Great Inca Rebellion, which will be broadcast on PBS, June 26th. It was an amazing presentation of new forensic archeology that establishes a major revision in the story of how just a few Conquistadors were able to so completely overwhelm the combined Inca armies in
Finally, this woman was so joyfully engaged with what was on her laptop in a Cafe this evening, I couldn't resist taking her picture.
