Chamber

During my lunch break I finished reading On the Calculation of Volume I by Solvej Balle (I have the second one in the series ready to read soon but didn't realize when I got them that there are so many more untranslated yet). Then in the evening we went to this Belvedere Chamber Music Festival that we just found out about. It's a concert every night from Wednesday through Saturday and then an extra afternoon concert on Friday and Saturday. So we'll at least make it to the couple we can. They feature a lot of contemporary composers plus some older ones. In this one I especially liked "Three Urban Scenes" (2022) by Ethan Resnik and "Watercolors" (1899) by Tor Aulin. The last piece they played had some parts that I genuinely liked a lot, but overall the effect was as if someone wrote a rock opera for a church band (I'm trying to find a way to put that that doesn't come across as bitchy but I guess that's the impression and I guess that's just the way it's gonna come across...). The group that runs this festival is called Luna Nuova Music. They've been around since 2002 and the festival has been around since 2007. Can't believe we'd never heard of it and I just happened to catch Alex Green posting a write-up he did about it just the other day! It's held over at Grace-St. Luke's so maybe the church thing had it off our radar? Anyway, enjoying it so far!