blossoms of snow & cherry

New year's cherry blossoms and snow

Orch. Repertoire (2007 Januay - April)

• L.V. Beethoven Egmont Overture
• P. Tschaikowsky Capriccio Italien
• J. Strauss Blue Danube Waltz
• C. Saint-Saens Marche Militaire Francaise (from the Algeria Suite)
• A. Dvorak Slavonic Dance No.8
• Howard Cable Scotish Rhapsody
• Howard Cable Hockey Night in Canada Theme

Memories Of My Melancholy Whores by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

... I discovered that my obsession for having each thing in the right place, each subject at the right time, each word in the right style, was not the well-deserved reward of an ordered mind but just the opposite: a complete system of pretense invented by me to hide the disorder of my nature. I discovered that I am not disciplined out of virtue but as a reaction to my negligence, that I appear generous in order to conceal my meanness, that I pass myself off as prudent because I am evil-minded, that I am conciliatory in order not to succumb to my repressed rage, that I am punctual only to hide how little I care about other people's time. I learned, in short, that love is not a condition of the spirit but a sign of the zodiac.

Memoria de mis putas tristes (c) 2004
Translated by Edith Grossman (c) 2005