.....when one just keeps going. I had an early start with an 8.30 meeting about our spring fundraiser - and then a tiresome almost two hours at the ophthalmologist for a routine examination. I get my eyes checked for oddities every year. No oddities this time and no change in vision apparently. But two hours which might have been more profitably spent.
So I went straight on to the meeting of the full membership of www.chicagoclassicalmusic.org . There is lots of fun afoot there. You will soon be able to vote for the Public Critic, actually three, who will write regularly about performances of every kind in Chicago. Watch the website around November 9 and you can cast your vote. This is all something of an experiment and could be a disaster and an embarrassment. But more likely it will be a refreshing change. Pedants need not apply - we need a bit of informed fun. Of course informed is no less important than fun. And may be less easy to come by. We shall see.
Altogether the site is doing well, largely thanks to the sterling efforts by our Chairman Jim Hirsch of the Chicago Sinfonietta and the excellent Angela Golden who manages the whole enterprise with exemplary but wondrous patience.
Straight from there I had a delightful lunch in the Elephant and Castle with Amy Iwano of the Chicago Chamber Musicians, a mainstay of the Chicago classical music scene. We have a possible plan for collaboration. Such things are good.
And then I proceeded with little pause to the Board meeting of the Chicago College of the Performing Arts, the first I have been able to attend since Henry Fogel took over as Dean in September. There will clearly be a shake up. Henry has great and admirable ambitions for the College. So we will have to work hard and be continuously engaged.
Tomorrow will be less hectic thank goodness. Stuff has built up again........
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