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READIN started out as a place for me to keep track of what I am reading, and to learn (slowly, slowly) how to design a web site.

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🦋 Appreciating Mendelssohn

Tonight we saw the New Zealand String Quartet performing four pieces by Mendelssohn, and challenging strongly my professed inability to dig classical music. I will say this, of "String Quartet #2 in A Minor Op. 13", which was my favorite piece of the evening and which the violist (Gillian Ansell) was selling as a love song in her introduction: I could not hear it as expressive of emotion. Rather it had the cold, haughty beauty of a fireworks display -- and indeed had many sensory ephemera in common with watching fireworks. A fantastic thing, it was.

posted evening of Monday, July 16th, 2007

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