[Kathy in Alaska]

Good evening, Mac...*HUGS*...do you live where they are going to shut off the water for days?

Doesn’t sound like fun at all.

[Publius]

It’s time for the Seattle Chamber Music Festival! We have a concert scheduled for Friday, July 19. Thanks to the miracle of the Internet, you can hear the concerts live at the website of KING-FM. I’ll be providing programs and links to the concerts throughout the summer festival. As we approach each concert, I’ll introduce one piece per evening at the Canteen with commentary about the piece. On concert nights, I’ll introduce the musicians.

Bohuslav Martinu (1890-1959) was a Czech who settled in Paris like so many composers of the era. He was a follower of Stravinsky and prolific composer in all forms. When the Germans arrived in France in 1940 he fled to New York where he stayed for 15 years before settling in Switzerland.

One of his most successful students in America was songwriter Burt Bacharach.

Martinu: 3 Madrigals for Violin & Viola

[ConorMacNessa]

Good evening, Kathy!

Fortunately, we are not in that area. Hot as Hades here, with the humidity to match. Very bad for the people in the southern part of this county.

Over thirty years ago, I lived in Richmond, VA. There was a major algae bloom on the James River in late summer and the city water was undrinkable. Several weeks of intolerable hardship. We had to go to water points around the area to get drinkable water from National Guard trucks. This was before the days of bottled watered. Perrier was around, but it was in glass bottles at the time. Some people went to the several popular springs in the area - the water there was tested and found to be heavily infected with e. coli.

Hate when that happens!

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