Art and music
My cousins Vaughn and Weston were in town from Kansas City this weekend. Vaughn's orchestra was playing in a festival at Northwestern University.
This morning, we drove up to Evanston to see him perform. He uses my old, chubby violin! I miss that violin muchly. It was great fun to see it again, and to see it being used. Made me really want to play, though. Seeing Northwestern also brought back memories. Memories of solo and ensemble competition, of walking along the rocks lining Lake Michigan, memories of pretending we were college students when we were really just high school kids... the good old days. Northwestern is such a pretty campus.
So Vaughn first played with the full orchestra, and then again with the chamber orchestra. They're very good. Had some wonderful soloists (a cello and two violins) and some very difficult pieces. Like I said, memories. I wish I was still playing.
Afterwards, I pretty much went straight to work for the Art League auction. It was a lot of fun. Some really cool pieces of artwork were up for auction. Weston bid on a Lion King-esque (a landscape of a tree in front of a brilliant sunset that would have fit right in to the movie) painting that was valued at $200. He won it at $6. I hope the artist never finds out.
There was a silent auction for the first hour, and then a live auction. My grandparents, my uncle, Weston, and my parents all came to check out the bank, meet the couple people I work with who were there, and see the art. There was food and wine and music. It was a good time! I got hit on by a lot of old, drunk men. <.giggle> It was an experience, definitely, but also a whole lot of fun.