Call From Europe

Yes, thats right....the one and only Kitty Cheung called me from London last night! We talked for about twenty minutes, and it was SO good to hear her voice!! We had not spoken since May on graduation day. And - it appears that Jen Volmer is engaged (did everyone else know about this too or was I the ONLY one not to know????) and her wedding is in June, so Kitty and Grace are coming to the States for it and want to stop in Boston, and of course, stay with me! Hoorah! That will make up for the road trip I will be missing out on with David and Brian on their way to TMC.

I am doing Bach's St. Matthew's Passion this week with the Back Bay Chorale. Last week I did Bach b minor mass with the Cantata Singers. Next week I'm doing some new opera thing called Boston Construction
with a group called Boston Cecelia. It is a busy three weeks of gigs for me, but worth it - last week and this week I am playing some of the most glorious music ever written. The "Erbarme dich" (Have mercy, Lord) aria at the middle/end of the Passion broke my heart the two times we've done it - it takes place after Peter has denied Jesus three times, and has a sobbing, sighing quality. My sister is concertmaster and sounds absolutely beautiful (its a big violin solo).

I'm thinking that Boston Construction will not be so successful in breaking my heart. I'm sure the effort will be made, however - I think its about the Big Dig here that took 15 years.

In other news, little Butler (where Hannah goes) is in the Sweet 16 for the NCAA men's basketball tournament, and my little sister is going to the game tomorrow in St. Louis! I am incredibly jealous - she is a lucky duck!

Liza is gone again for trombone choir. Mutzi misses her terribly, I think, but I leave my door open so that she doesn't get too lonely at night, and I played with her for a half hour last night with a pink feather thing - she goes nuts. She loves it. She's also taken to pushing a piece of food out of her bowl and batting it around the room as it slides across our slippery hardwood floors and then eating it. I think she misses the little creatures she used to chase as an outdoor cat.

I am procrastinating. Now I'm off to school to learn the last mvt. of Brahms a minor quartet before rehearsal.