thanks to colder than expected temps today the snow, sleet and rain forecast turned out a quick 3 inches of snow and after being in the 50s this week Mira the snow dog and I got to XC ski for the fifth weekend in a row! Had the honor of doing some casual music videotaping yesterday afternoon at Dave's with an all star band: Jerry Brandell, Pete Klaver, and Ben Jansson on tenors, Dave on bari, Brian Delaney and George Bedard on guitars, and Andy and me. We were doing Lester Young, here's "Lester Leaps In":
Sad that you can't even see George.

This week's el cheapo classical special is Mozart's Quintet for Horn and String Quartet K.407. Performers are Sebastian Huber on horn and the Endres Quartet, whoever they are, from Vox DL 1000. From the notes: "Like the four Horn Concerti, it was written at the request of the composer's rather picturesque friend, the cheese-handler Ignaz Leitgeb, who was also one of the supreme virtuosos of the French Horn in Mozart's time. Mozart always treated his friend in a truly familiar and even jesting way, always inventing new practical jokes at the expense of the horn-player, who was willing to submit to any of Mozart's whims in order to receive a new composition from him." Mozart supposedly once marked the orchestra part in one of the horn concerti "Allegro" and Leitgeb's part "Adagio".


1st movement
2nd movement
3rd movement