Friday

Saw a do-it-yourself video about a drop down work bench. Remembered there is a 60 x 36 table top in the barn. This will do just fine. Need to get piano hinges and other hardware. Also started adding a new light over door to factory that will come on with a motion detector.

Talked with Seth. Went over to meet with Luca ??, the young guy Seth has doing odd jobs. Chatted with him about plans he has to take a year off from college. Gave him the task of finding some healthcare logistics firms to handle our biometric devices.

Tennis with Ted mid afternoon. Played well. 

In the evening I went to the library for a concert, Music in the Stacks, given by Aston Magna.

The Schubert song cycle Die Schoenberg Mullerin was a forty five minute extravaganza of twenty poems about nature and lost love. Sung by a tenor Frank Kelly who had memorized the whole thing. Here is section of one poem as an example:

Everything was played on period instruments or reproductions of period instruments as in the forte piano.

Janissary bells. A fourth foot pedal actuates these bells.

The natural horn was amazing but also disconcerting with its muffled sound when the hand in the bell was used to change pitch.