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Skriven 2014-10-16 13:59:00 av NANCY BACKUS (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av MICHAEL LOO
Ärende: Re: institutions 98
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-=> Quoting Michael Loo to Nancy Backus on 10-11-14  10:38 <=-

 NB>> I would probably generally knee-jerk the same way, given that most of
 NB>> my RPO friends have been musicians, not board...  :)
 ML> Yesterday I went to the annual meeting of our little
 ML> enterprise, and at the dinner afterwards I sat with board
 ML> members of the Cecilia Society and Collage and next to the
 ML> executive director of Emmanuel Music on my side with members
 ML> of the BSO and the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center
 ML> on the other, with a walking space between. Symbolic, and
 ML> what the heck was I doing on the wrong side? Sadly, the
 ML> BSO people were much younger, and I didn't know them, except
 ML> for one or two from the olden days who vaguely remembered
 ML> me but couldn't quite place me ... .

The river of time flows along...  were (any of) the other board members
previously musicians also...?  The ones from the olden days probably
remembered you in your younger version...  ;)

 ML> Other news - Nicholas was there, looking rather under the
 ML> weather. He went in for a kidney transplant a month ago, but
 ML> they found a complication that prevented that, and he just
 ML> got out after 3 1/2 weeks of treatments and no transplant. Ugh.

Sad, that...  Doesn't sound good at all...  but maybe he can beat some
of the odds, anyway...

 ML> Gunther was there, and I am afraid that he's on the
 ML> way out - he's lost a bunch of weight, but the bad thing was
 ML> that he heaped praise on the quite ordinary Melini Chianti
 ML> that he was served. We were looking forward to 2015, his
 ML> 90th, and I have my doubts.
 
That certainly doesn't bode well... he might make it to next year,
though... just not necessarily in the best of shape...

 ML>> Not too optimistic on this - we had our Keith Lockhart,
 ML>> who never improved.
 NB>> They have to start somewhere..  (G)   I'll have to ask Mommy what she
 NB>> thought of Ward... she just went to a concert with him conducting.. 
 ML> And?

She reported that he's ok.  And then asked me if I'd seen him conduct
yet, which I had to say no to...  Not quite sure how to interpret it,
except that I'd guess that he isn't nearly so good as Christopher
Seaman, and probably a lot better than Arild...  ;)
 
 NB>> I don't think it was the choices so much... His greatest fans, from
 NB>> what I understood, were with those that were also part of the Chamber
 NB>> Music Society... He continued to conduct them... or at least was
 NB>> supposed to... I remember something about him leaving them high and dry
 NB>> at some point, before they had expected him to leave
 ML> Sounds then that the guy had an issue (mental? authority?).

Probably.  Some measure of self-importance, arrogance maybe, probably 
impatience...  not untypical of the generation... 
 
 ML>> Dairy Free Chicken Liver Mousse
 ML>> 1/2 c apple cider (of course you may substitute wine)
 NB>> Did you add that parenthetic note or was it in the original...? 
 ML> Interestingly, that was in the original.

Ah...  so I might use wine, and Ruth the cider...  ;)

 NB>> ... The pinata smiled, not realizing kids would beat him with a stick.

 ML> Somehow I found that very poignant in a horrible sort of way.

Actually, that was my reaction as well, even as I grabbed it for the
file...  

ttyl       neb

... If you are cross-eyed and have dyslexia, can you read all right???

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