Concert

Tonight Sydney and I went to see Apollo’s Fire, a group that does 17th-century music and that includes musicians playing period instruments, singers (ahh, love the clear sound of early music soloists), and even a dancer.  We weren’t totally sold on the dancer, but loved the rest of it.  Particularly as this was our first concert of the semester (wow, things have changed since college days), we were pretty happy that it was such a good one.  It was a little weird that we ended up sitting right next to professors from my department, surrounded by even more that we recognized, but I guess it is a small town, so I’ll get used to it.

One thing we still don’t understand, though.  Concerts in Ithaca are really sparsely attended.  We’ve been really embarrassed a few times that we were such a large portion of the audience, particularly for orchestras, where the number of people onstage rivaled those in the house.  Maybe we need to take it on as our personal mission to attend more concerts and beef up (if only by two) the concert attendance around here.

Erin