Friday, December 3
Music to my ears
Last night we attended the Northridge High School orchestra and band concert, featuring my seventh grade daughter on violin with the orchestra. It's a nice public school auditorium, although the building itself from the outside looks like a county-level correctional facility, with its industrial cinder block and tiny window construction. She plays with the Northridge orchestra because, well, frankly she's good enough to play with the high school kids, and her own school doesn't have an orchestra (although she and my son play with a great jazz combo there).
The two best pieces were the second (or third?) movement from Bizet's Carmen (which you've heard, whether you know it or not) and a combined group faithful rendering of Sleigh Ride. Looks like Dean from District 6 was in the house, so those of you living here on the edge of nowhere can watch your local cable channel three to catch the whole show in coming weeks. If anyone needs a bootleg, let me know.
