Blather and Nonsense

Music in the round

Tonight after my sushi dinner, I and several others met up at Don's house for an evening of music to (further) celebrate All Saints' Day. Don and Gwen played Brahms's four hands piano arrangement of his Deutsches Requiem while Don's wife Jill, Allen, Allen's wife Julia, Alison, Joe, and I sang voice to a part. We formed a semicircle around the Bösendorfer and sang beautifully, each of us having performed the piece with full choir and orchestra at some point in the past. The last time I sung the work was in Carnegie Hall my senior spring term; I think tonight was the more touching of the two performances, but maybe it was the wine breaks we took after every other movement. No matter, it was a fitting tribute to saints departed and a positively lovely evening.