I don't know if I'm supposed to comment on my own post, but I wanted to say what great comments this post generated! I love being amongst a cultured group!

I like stuff like that but haven't done it in a while. All I do is work lately.

I think I like your cultural high point for the week better than mine. At MobileRead.com there was a discussion today of Amazon Alexa's new skills, which now include several styles of heavy metal music on demand, which in turn forced me to post this to show my love for heavy metal.

On the other hand, it was also at MobileRead today where I discovered Learn Our Loud's monthly freebie, Introduction to Poetry, which includes 24 classic poems (the offer expires on the 28th), and which is now on my phone.

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I'll listen to Shakespeare on YouTube. I can't listen to "Romeo and Juliet". I usually shout at the empty room:"You are idiots!!!!!"

Sadly, I will be deprived of any culture this week. My 16 year old daughter is heavily into musical theater and that's the main source of my "culture." The Company she is with is currently working on their production of The Addams Family. Locally, we have an annual event in the summertime called The Strauss Festival. It's 4 nights of Strauss, performed in an outdoor amphitheater at a local public park. The facility was built primarily for this event. Local citizens dance various waltzes to a loosely structured "story." Dancers are dressed in period costumes. Music is performed by a full orchestra and the show is repeated 4X during the last weekend in July. It's a lovely event. Apart from that, I have musical theater with the Kid. LOL! The Company (River City Theatre Co.) do two shows per year. My daughter also takes voice lessons and dance (tap and jazz), and both of those programs have recitals periodically.

Today I attended a meeting of the Pligrim Fathers Origins Association.
I live in the area where some of the folks who sailed in the Mayflower in 1620 orginated. Both William Brewster and William Bradford. came for my part of England.
You can't escape histrory here as this is also the area that spawened the Baptist and Methodist churches.
While I am not religious the physical artefacts (their churches, halls , homes and farms) surround us and the social history is fascinating.
Of course we are expecting large numbers of Americans to cross the pond in 2020 and experience for themselves the places from which the Separatists orginated.

Different Strauss, Richard. Opera Salome in Royal Opera House. Very agnostic thing.

I am sitting in with a wonderful group of gaelic musicians.

Headed to Salem, MA on Saturday for some creepy history. I'm delighted. Haven't been in ages.

I miss culture. I have missed it since moving to semi-rural Georgia from Western New York State. But I have we have a corn maze.

I am happy to have cultural opportunities where I live, as a chorister as well as a patron. My choir's annual festival is in full swing, and we have a lot of music ahead by Bach, Bruckner, and Brahms, plus Rutter. Yay!!! Over the next 2 weeks I'll be soaking in the sound.

This week the Cleveland Orchestra is performing music by Ravel: Suite from Mother Goose, Piano Concerto for the Left Hand, and the complete ballet music from Daphnis and Chloé; I'll probably go Saturday night.

I am culturally deficient this week ...nothing planned for a while. As a season ticket holder for the San Francisco Symphony, I dearly love Brahms and Strauss. And as a chorister, I've sung the German Requiem and Alto Rhapsody a number of times. Recently, we heard Strauss' Ein Heldenleben (A Hero's Life) performed magnificently at Davies Hall. There's nothing quite like live symphonic music, is there!

This week I will curse the foul and cold weather exclusively in French. If it continues into next week I'm hauling out the big guns and cutting loose in German- culture be damned! I'm not a winter person.

Wish I were there Aimez-vous Brahms? Oui and Strauss, too.

Do you ever go to the free concerts at ASU, put on by the music department?

I stream accuradio.com online and listen to Chopin as often as pop genres.

I’m going to watch Songcatcher.

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