Our First Dad/Daughter Time: Jan. 7, 2010

We barely made the first week with a D/D time, but there was a nifty Recital at the University of Michigan, only 13 minutes away (according to our GPS which we have dubbed MAGGIE). It was an 8:00 p.m. recital of U of M faculty and some cello students. SInce Lydia plays the cello a bit, it interested her, and I had been trying to get to one of these for years, so .... we went.

We were driving there in the dark, to a place we had never been before, and it was snowing. Heavily. But, we left early enough and after a couple of false starts, we finally found the place. We knew we were in the right spot when someone got out of their car in the parking lot carrying a violin. Lydia once played the violin, but it was too high pitched for her.

Here is the ad we found in the AA Observer (and on the U of M website):
Faculty Chamber Music Recital
Jan. 7 -- 8:00pm -- E.V. Moore Building, Britton Recital Hall
PROGRAM: J.S. Bach - Cantata No. 51 “Jauchzet Gott in allen Landen” Caroline Helton (soprano), William Campbell (trumpet), Kathryn Goodson (harpsichord) Pia Greiner (cello); Villa-Lobos - Bachianas Brasileiras No. 5 Caroline Helton (soprano), students from the studio of Richard Aaron; Schoenfield - Ghetto Songs Caroline Helton (soprano), Stephen West (baritone), Paul Schoenfield (piano), Andrew Jennings (violin), Chad Burrow (clarinet), Diana Gannett (bass), Pia Greiner (cello)
 Free - no tickets required


It is 8:10. The concert still has not started yet.

I drew a digram for my father about pianos. I have no artistic skills. In science Blaster Junior there is a guy who is telling us to take pictures of stuff and he is SO ANNOYING anyhow in the concert there was a group of cellists and there was a guy with REALLY, REALLY COOL HAIR and he was cool. And they played this really seriously awespme thing that was brilliant and I liked it. Also Ms. Pia Greiner who is awesome as well did a thing and she and the bass player who had the same name as my geometry teacher, played really really really high and that's really difficult but she didn't look like she was having trouble at all she was just like "yeah this is how we all play cello in COLLEGE" yeah.