1 post tagged “ballet mecanique”
Today's purchases:
- 1 slice of quiche and cup of tea at Cafe Tristan und Isolde;
- 1 ticket to tonight's performance of Don Giovanni by the Estonian Opera;
- 1 ticket to tomorrow night's gala closing concert of the 2006 Piano Festival at the Estonia Concert Hall, featuring full orchestra, chorus, and soloists and including, among other things, Antheil's Ballet Mécanique, which I've wanted to experience live for a long time (it's scored for, among other things, 10 pianos and 3 airplane propellers);
- 1 admittance ticket to the Estonian Music and Theatre Museum, which I happened upon by chance on the way between the Cafe and the Theatre, and which had in its collection a number of really cool mechanical instruments from the late 19th and early 20th century;
- 1 pint of pilsner and 1 hour of internet time, both being consumed in tandem right now in the basement of a bar that has that combined smell of old cigarette smoke, old sweat, and cleaning fluid that the UW-Milwaukee student union used to have when I'd go there to play pool with my Dad when I was a kid.
