At what point do you finally say to yourself, "There's just no way my pathetic life can keep up with the fast-paced, thrill-a-minute, super-charged life the Golds are living--I'm not even going to try anymore!"?At this point.
Here are actual, exclusive photos of the odometer in our Outback turning from 99999 to 100000 miles Saturday night. That's right! Actual photos! Bask in the glory!
The circumstances surrounding this auspicious occasion were that we were returning from a All Hallows Church in Sacramento where the Music in the Mountains Festival Chorus (of which I'm a member in good standing-tenor I) performed "Requiem" by Maurice Durufle accompanied by orchestra and pipe organ. It's a piece performed in Latin drawing from traditional monastery chants, using contemporary chordal and rhythmic forms. Quite beautiful! Tom enjoyed it quite a bit! The trickiest part of learning it, for me, was counting. The time signature seemed to change every other measure.
Our part of the evening occupied the second half of the program. The first half was the performance of Beethoven's 6th Symphony, "Pastoral", which neither of us had ever heard straight through. Stunning piece beautifully played! The entire evening was so crammed with amazing music!
All Hallows parish runs a school and a music academy in an economically-challenged neighborhood of Sacramento. It's a place where no kid is ever turned away for lack of ability to pay and the arts will never be cut to save money. Period. The orchestra and small chorus (with whom we sang) are a combination of seasoned musicians and younger, but quite gifted, musicians who take music very seriously. The performance quality is very high! Our director, Ryan, also directs and trains the choral group at All Hallows, which is how our connection with them is made. It was with this same group that we performed Beethoven's Fifth in the big cathedral downtown last fall.
Such great music to accompany the understandably-high anticipation of the Odometer Event we knew would be happening later that evening!
