bunrab | House! househousehousehouse

Whee! We closed on the houses today - Austin is safely sold, someone else's elephant now. And the house here is ours. We are renting it back to the sellers for 2 days, as it will take them all day Saturday to empty it out and they offered to clean it Sunday, plus we can let some of the smell of their cigarettes air out of it. Monday morning, the phone company, the locksmith, etc show up, and then Tuesday we move in!! Yeeeeeeehah!

So I'll have a bunch of pictures sometime Monday, probably.

Right from closing, we went straight to this evening's symphony concert. Strauss's Metamorphosen doesn't thrill me - I prefer music that actually goes somewhere and has some contrast. Plus, it seems as though a reduced size orchestra sounds particularly thin in Meyerhoff. All that empty stage. The flute transcription of Rodrigo's Gentilhomme was very nice, although again, a bit thin.

Beethoven's 7th was great. Can't go wrong with an odd-numbered Beethoven. It was played at a slightly brisker tempo than I am accustomed to hearing, nice and alert.

Saturday I must practice up for Sunday's concert - there are a couple of places in one piece where the only people playing are me and the bass clarinet, so we better sound good!

House househousehousehouse. Wheeeeeeeeee!