L'allegro il Penseroso ed il Moderato

Saturday: Woke around 10 with both cats on my chest. Didn't know where MB was until just before I got out of bed. She was in the office being quiet. She reminded me that the Mark Morris dance company was in town. There were tickets left for this evening's performance, so we decided to go. While I was completing the transaction, she took a shower. Then me.

We were low on food-stuffs in the house, so we walked out to the grocery store and bought a few essentials. I made some breakfast for myself, listening to NPR. A funny spot about John Denver's connection with EST. MB headed out to her afternoon of dance classes. Some emailing, then down basement for exercise and by then, afternoon, practices. Harvested most of the rest of the mushrooms.

Upstairs and putting away laundry. Some guitar. Coffee. Looked into booking the Argentina trip through Orbitz, and found that it did much better than the travel agent. MB returned home. She got dressed, and we left the house right at 7 PM.

We parked in Boston at the "Motor Mart" and walked over to the Wang. We attended Mark Morris Dance Group's "L'allegro il Penseroso ed il Moderato"

Set to the music of Handel and the words of John Milton and Charles Jennens, L'Allegro, Morris' seminal masterwork, the groundbreaking, full-length ballet, has been described as a work of "utopian grandeur" and "a masterpiece of craft, invention and feeling."

Quite an amazing work. And a fun bit of prancing about. It is only recently that the Western world could produce dance of this freedom. Although the medium is motion, the language is that of music. I got a brownie and a coffee at intermission.

Back home, a quicky supper of sorts, some hanging out with MB, then she headed upstairs to work. I went ahead and actually booked our tickets to Argentina. Saved over $1000, and shortened each direction of the trip by about 12 hours.