Today I am in Chicago. It has turned very cool here and is, for the first time, really starting to feel like fall. I love this weather - it makes me want to cook soup. It's hard to believe it was over 90 degrees on Sunday. Sue and I did our usual spectating routine at the now-infamous Chicago Marathon this past Sunday - I didn't personally see anyone keel over but it was obvious that a lot of people were hurting. Usually in a race like that you have the elite runners through first and then a pack of unknown-but-still-very-fast runners. On Sunday, you could barely distinguish the latter from the recreational runners because they were all reduced to walkers by Mile 20. Helicopters were buzzing overhead, emergency vehicles whizzing by - it was bizarro. How in the world this city expects to host an Olympic Games, I have no idea....
The Washington Post ran a great article today on Marin Alsop, the somewhat new conductor of the Baltimore Symphony. She conducted the Colorado Springs Symphony when I lived there. She says she knew she wanted to be a conductor after seeing Leonard Bernstein at age 9. Can you imagine knowing what you wanted to do from the age of 9, and then actually doing it?? Here's the link to the article - it's worth the read: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/09/AR2007100902144_2.html?hpid=sec-artsliving
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