1. Today is Ludwig van Beethoven's birthday -- his 255th -- and Jane Austen's, her 250th. Symphony Hall played Beethoven's music all day, except for one break when the channel replayed Colleen Wheelahan's "Jane Austen Musicale". I had listened to it yesterday. I listened to it again today.
When this program ended today, my mind wandered back to when I read Jane Austen's Emma in graduate school. I think this was in February or March of 1980.
Primarily, what I remember was that Austen's approach in Emma to narration so excited and stimulated me that rather than take the bus from campus to where we lived three miles off campus, I walked home, my mind totally occupied with my experience with Austen's genius.
2. I really can't catalogue in this blog post all the terrific music playing in the house today as the Symphony Hall channel played Beethoven (almost) non-stop.
3. When I went to be tonight (Tuesday), weather conditions did not keep me from falling asleep. No whistling wind, nor howling wind either was blowing. By approximately 5 a.m. that changed considerably, as my next blog post will report.
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