March 28, 2011

Colin Powell: "Americans solve problems.  We don't ignore problems"--10 Days That Unexpectedly Changed America 

(What about global warming?)

    Dreamed of meeting a non-existent aunt about to get married; hearing that President Obama had been forced to resign.

    Went to Giuseppe's for my first singing lesson in a while.  I felt dizzy at times but was in good voice. (He compared the human mouth to a cornucopia shape.)

    Dinner was lasagna.

    At choir practice we turned to Theodore Dubois' The Seven Last Words of Christ and some other stuff we're doing in the Easter concert.

    Saw the DVD of the first episode of another The History Channel series, 10 Days That Unexpectedly Changed America.

March 27, 2011

    In the bathroom in the morning I had a fainting spell and my head hit the floor.  Hope it isn't a sign of something serious!

    The othher day when I told Moira about the Les Miserables song going through my head ("Empty Chairs and Empty Tables"), she said she had "Una Furtiva Lagrima" from Donizetti's The Magic Elixir of Love going through hers. (She's been playing a library CD of Jussi Bjorling arias.) Now that song is going through my head!

    Went to a book and poster show at Wychwood Barns, but didn't buy anything. (I thought they might have comics there, but they didn't.)

    Dinner was salmon.

    Coro Verdi performed Rigoletto again, this time with my family in the audience.  Afterward Moira said "Why didn't you tell us you had such great singers?" Mother liked the chorus too.