EPILOG - a personal commentary on my experience

A message I sent to several friends regarding this delightful experience I had :

Hi folks:

I got to see Jon Moerschel perform yesterday after he found me (on the internet) and got in touch. Jon is a friend of mine from Boston. He is a radio ham and we got to know each other sharing radio ham experiences. But because Jon was a classical musician to-be, I felt a special affinity for him. After all, I have been a big time classical music lover since I was a kid too.

Jon left Boston in 1997 to study the viola at USC. He liked it and stayed there. Then, a year later I moved to California myself - Northern California. During those years we did not stay in touch. I had no idea what Jon was doing, until, thanks to email, he found me and, like I said, contacted me. He was playing in Northern California and did I want to come to see him? I most certainly did. And the rest you know from visiting this website.

Here are my personal observations about the "The Bach Dancing and Dynamite Society," (venue) and about the Calder concerts.

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 The theater is a little gem. It is run and maintained by an exclusive group of members. And while I came prepared with a sandwich and soda, dinner was also served, so I had a good meal and great music in a wonderful place. At the end, the quartet leader said "this is as close to the ocean as we have ever played" (I could see both the musicians and the beach from my seat).

 

The members (and the music hosted there - mostly jazz) are music lovers, who seem to like "eclectic" performances such as we saw yesterday. The performance was marvelous (esp. the Shostakovich and Bartok (encore), and the audience, who is used to mostly jazz performers loved it too. They gave the group a great (and well deserved) ovation.