Nerd Day!

I played viola in an orchestra concert today. It's my first orchestral outing on the viola in almost 20 years. We played a Dvorak and a piece by Mary Watkins (http://www.oaklandopera.org/FANNIEMAY.html for more info on this amazing woman) and an Aaron Copland piece (haven't played Copland since I was in high school). Here's a video of Copland conducting the LAPO with Benny Goodman on the clarinet (Goodman commissioned the work back in the day). This is the first part, the slow part.

Here's the 2nd part, the fast part:

Then I took my kids out to dinner, then we came home and I got to help T-Dizzle do her Chemistry homework. They are doing Stoichiometry. I also have not done Stoichiometry since high school. It's math you use to figure out like if you combine 5L of hydrogen and 5L of oxygen, how much water are you gonna get? Yeh, so I was having a total nerd out today. According to my calculations, it was fun!

PS My conductor informed me that if I come and play violin or viola for an event with the Gay Men's Chorus (which she also conducts-- http://www.sfgmc.org/) that she may also call upon me to play the guitar part for "Horse with No Name". Oh, and L-Dawg's musical partner (our neighbor Den) is playing guitar and asking me to identify the chords he's playing from across the room. I am a nerd.