April27,2008 Symphony

Today we slept in probably the latest ever! It was 12:30 in the afternoon before all of us were up for the day. I had gotten up about 8:30 and was reading a book but after a while I fell back asleep because it was a dark day her in Boston and it did not feel that late. I am reading the Twilight series I have finished book 1 & 2 and am starting the 3rd book tomorrow on the plane. So we all got up and had breakfast(leftover dinner from the night before) We showered and then we were off to ride the subway to the symphony. We arrived about 10 minutes before it started. I was glad we had made it because the blue line was closed because of a gas leak on sat and they were trying to fix it. We saw the Orchestre National De France with special guest David Fray as a piano soloist. The conductor was was Kurt Masur.David Fray was a 20 year old piano artist, he was great. He had the whole piece that he played with the orchestra memorized. They play Beethoven Piano concerto no 2 in b-flat Major Opus 19 all three movements. Then there was an intermission. Then they played Tchaikovsky's Symphony no 5 in e minor opus 64 with all 4 movements. The conductor has no music for the whole piece it was amazing. Mark liked the last movement the best and I liked it all. We then made it to Houstons in Quincy Market for dinner. I had Prime rib with a baked potato and mark had a steak with a potato. They could not serve mark fries because the restaurant had lost it gas line the day before. After dinner we went back to Tedann's and watched Extreme Makeover and played cards. We also had to die for Chocolate cheesecake.