Me and the weekend and the music

Gorgeous weather this weekend! I fiddled around the house in the a.m., inspired to do a bit of cleaning and straightening up. One of the joys of living in a university community (well, this one, anyway) is the Music Department. There are scads of actually rather decent student musical groups, and Saturday night the Motet Choir was doing a concert of Jewish music at Rockefeller Chapel: Mostly sacred music (including some pieces that Shulamit Ran wrote for her sons' bar mitzvahs), but a couple of pieces that seemed to be included on the basis of the composer being Jewish, including an odd (but beautifully melodic) piece by Shostakovich, all about a girl, her flute and the communal farm's herd.

Sunday afternoon was even nicer, so I went for a walk in the park down the street. Lots of other folks were taking advantage of the weather, too: After dinner I went to the Checkerboard Lounge to hear Maggie Brown:
She graciously said it would be okay if I took photos; in fact, she gave me her e-mail address and asked me to send them on to her. So, of course, I will.