Birthday party

I had a birthday party on March 4. It was a more complicated party than usual, because I organized a bunch of friends to go to see Oliver Twist at the “American Repertory Theatre”:http://www.amrep.org. (I have a credit as the serpent instructor.)

Then we went back to my place and had food, and before the birthday cake, I made everybody listen to the “Marcello Sonata”:http://www.laymusic.org/music/sp/html/pieces/365.html that I’d been practicing with Hope Ehn.

Here are some “pictures”:http://serpent.laymusic.org/gallery/view_photo.php?set_albumName=birthday04 taken by Dennis Ehn and Ishmael Stefanov.

There’s a “video”:http://serpent.laymusic.org/gallery/view_album.php?set_albumName=birthday07video of the sonata, taken by Dennis Ehn. There were some ensemble problems on the fourth movement, but otherwise, that’s the way I play the recorder these days. I’m trying to get it onto youtube instead of my own server, but I didn’t read the restrictions well enough, so I didn’t realize I’ll have to break it up into two or more pieces to get it less than 10 minutes. But there’s the file as I got it from Dennis, and a version that I trimmed and compressed and added titles to.