Apologies for the cruddy cell phone picture above. Hopefully you can tell it's a T-Rex who needs some help reaching something. Thankfully, a compassionate giraffe stuck his neck out to help (ha ha).
BOOKISH: I've been doing a bad job of reporting which books the kids have had their noses in for the past few months!. Today, I caught Annabelle juggling two books on her lap, one she had just finished (Copper, which was based on a Web comic), and one she was just starting (Zita the Spacegirl, a graphic novel).
You can see a trailer for Zita here:
INSTRUMENTAL: With all the driving we had to do today, we managed to listen to the rest of our Week 7 lectures in our classical music course. Thank goodness for the Coursera app, which allows me to stream them on my phone, and an auxilary input lets us play them through our car's speakers.
One of the topics covered today was the ever-expanding orchestra during the mid- and latter-part of the 19th century. One of the instruments added was the English horn to the mix. It has a lovely, distinctive, almost mournful sound. Once of the pieces of music we listened to today was Dvorak Symphony No. 9 "From the New World" 2nd Movement, which features the English horn (which, ironically, is not English, and not a horn. It's a woodwind, and it came from Silesia, a region in Central Europe which is now mostly within Poland's borders.
Dvorak's symphony featuring the English horn is simply beautiful.
Love that New World symphony. Thanks.
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