Jeremy and I decided to celebrate the Inauguration with actual people (not sooo many, though. The Germans may love Obama, but I think with their parliamentary system, they find the pomp surrounding the inauguration of a person bizarre.) at Joe Champs American Sportsbar at Rudolfplatz. We were grateful they were broacasting the proceedings on their big screens-- otherwise, we would have been huddled around the computer screen at home. We went there with some Americans who just arrived in Cologne on sabbatical-- Rebecca Harris-Warrick and Ron Harris. They are both professors at Cornell, and Rebecca is a musicologist/dance historian and the one who invited the New York Baroque Dance Company to do a residency and performance there last year. And Ron is a biologist!
Some American design group or ad agency was also having a party at Joe Champs to celebrate, and we were treated to a 10 minute speech in German with a THICK American accent. Fabulous!
Today is my first rehearsal with all of the musicians! Whoo-hoo!
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So glad that you spent yesterday with your friends from Cornell. We enjoyed meeting them. I suppose our hoopla for the new president is more a sign of our yearning for change than a bow to royalty. But didn't they look grand!!!
Dad says that I have to change the identity if I use words like "grand".
Hope your rehearsal went well.
hee hee! "Grand" is somehow so Katherine Hepburn.
The rehearsals are going well, and everyone seems to actually enjoy working on the show--- now, if we can only get those butts in the seats...
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