Symphonically

I finished reading Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by M. Barnard Eldershaw. It was good though it took a little while to get into it. A lot of the writing is very good, but it can be a bit over-encumbered, dry, and didactic. Most of the book is a novel-within-the-novel and for most of it the sci-fi framing story didn't even seem necessary, but towards the end as it moved from history to speculation it did make sense (it was written in the earlier half of WWII though not published til after the war and moves on to a speculative end of the war, etc.). The end (for both parts) is the best and it ties up together pretty well. In the afternoon, Mary Beth and I went to see (/hear) the Memphis Symphony Orchestra and it was nice. First was "Wood Notes" by Grant Still, then by Kurt Weill's "Suite from Threepenny Opera", and the main event was the one-hundredth anniversary of Gershwin's "Rhapsody in Blue" for which they had a virtuoso pianist come down from New York. Later at night, as the pianist had mentioned being familiar with "Rhapsody in Blue" as a kid from Fantasia, we watched the original Fantasia as neither of us had seen it in a long time. Then we watched just the "Rhapsody in Blue" part from Fantasia 2000.