1975 memory - Beethoven - 2019 anticipation.

As (thanks to my journal) I have delved into memories of my 1975 summer in the U.S.A. (the year I grew my beard). I have been back at the summer home of the Boston Symphony Orchestra -  Tanglewood in Lenox/Stockbridge MA.

 My summer supervisor Bishop Alexander Stewart paid for his Vacation Bible School student teams (of which I was a member) to attend a Boston Symphony Orchestra Concert at Tanglewood. 

 They were the inexpensive lawn tickets, but the concert was grand. It featured Beethoven's Ninth Symphony.

I had heard this magnificent music on the radio, but I'd never heard it "live".

 It was a magical moment for me.    So much so that I could not sit  on the lawn. So I stood at the back of the Music Shed and savoured every sight and sound.
Music Shed
It was not only the music. It was also the twilight, the end of evening, the starlight, and the beginning of night.  It was the goosebumps on my body and in my soul and spirit.

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 Forty three years on I am anticipating  with  joy yet another Beethoven's Ninth. I bought my tickets today.

 It will not be until April 2019 - at the Van Wezel Performance Arts Centre in Sarasota. It will be the final concert of the Sarasota Orchestra 
  under the leadership of the fabulous Estonian Conductor Anu Tali who will be returning to her beloved homeland.

Sarasota Orchestra ****

 Anu Tali *****

 Better still  my dear Estonian friend Kadi Kool will fly  down from the  Raleigh/Durham N.C. area to spend some time with me, and to enjoy  Anu Tali's  swan-song in SRQ.  I have already bought the tickets.

Kadi and jmp a few years ago.

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