Thursday, August 16, 2007

Stormy weather with a musical program.

Last night I went to an outdoor concert where Beethoven's Pastoral Symphony was played. There was thunder and distant lightning for the first three movements, and during the fourth movement, which Beethoven wrote to be an imitation of a rainstorm, it kept getting closer, but it was only in the fifth movement, which was supposed to be a musical representation of country people rejoicing after a storm, did it start raining piss out of a boot. The lightning was really close, too, and I kept thinking about how funny it would be if lightning struck and several people died at an outdoor classical music concert during the last movement of the Pastoral Symphony, but then I didn't think it would be so funny because one of those people could have been me.

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