July 21st- Well, started the 3rd weekend of chemoradiation. Must say that by the end of the 2nd week(unlike the end of the 1st week)I did feel weakened, less energetic and very much in the land of the"sick." It's all quite "real" for me now and I understand what a long haul lies ahead. Thank God for ART!. Playing flute and piano with my good friend-flutist Kathleen Purcell cheers me up no end. We're reading though a interesting piece "Undine" by Reinecke(19th century Romantic composer with a Brahmsian tinge ) that we'll be performing in May for the S.C. Chamber Players. When I'm playing music, I'm no longer "sick." I'm just in the world of music-making-a much better place to be.
Friday night went to the Shakespeare Santa Cruz's opening performance of "Bach in Leipzig," a brilliant contemporary play by the brilliant young playwright Itamar Moses(a former Ivan piano student from the Berkeley days which, of course accounts for his "brilliance! no doubt)) . WOW! What a tour de force-A play about Baroque music and politics- erudite AND funny -Very impressive! Cheers, IR
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Dear Ivan,
Thinking of you and wishing you the briefest of stays in wet noodledum. Playing music and and seeing plays and being with friends--now that's a life.
Many big hugs,
Connie (Robinson)
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