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Saturday night brought us our Symphony Orchestra concert with harmonica virtuoso Robert Bonfiglio. He not only carried a harmonica concert, he delighted us with five or six encores. (I lost track after the fourth.) Excuse my ignorance, I had no idea existed ... harmonica virtuoso nor do I have any evidence that concerts have been written for this cute small instrument. (The accordion is an instrument?!?) The man was incredible. I've never seen - or heard - anything. Please ... check out href = "http://www.robertbonfiglio.com"> http://www.robertbonfiglio.com to become enlightened yourself.
I got home around midnight last night, only to wake up and go back to the auditorium this morning to rehearse in one of our local dance groups, our full symphony orchestra, narrator, lighting crew, and the Director for our annual Family Concert, the group which I chaired. We interpreted the classic award-winning 1963 children When the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak, to the classical music and classical ballet. Starting with the creaking door Overture, a little known work by Kozinski, an excerpt from Rimsky-Korsakov's "Scheherazade," to Mussorgsky's "Night on Bald Mountain", the dancers of Stravinsky's "Firebird Suite", one of my personal favorites (with a climax that leaves me choking, each and every time I listen.) Actor Keir Dullea, best known for his performance in "2001: A Space Odyssey," told the prose as set put in the book by Mr. Sendak.
This is not meant in any way to showcase our local, fully professional orchestra, nor the dance company that performed so brilliantly today. Instead it is used as a lesson that hit me a ton of bricks this weekend to illustrate. I had learned this lesson - albeit less intense - years ago when my daughter's ballet performed with her company. But far too long over and the lesson was forgotten. I learned this lesson more tangible today, this event first hand. I observed the level of commitment required - and cheerfully given - by many different people from different and varied talents - to ensure a desired result for a common goal, the welfare of many.
The conductor needed prepared musicians, the musicians need the conductor. The choreographer needed attentive, energetic dancers ... and she had her direction. The set designer is required of the choreographer's vision, and we all need to set! The make-up artist required the dancers, who needed the make-up artist. The stage crew needed the lighting contractor located on the stage crew, choreographer, director and conductor for direction. We all need concertgoers ... and they had this concert. This interdependence, with love given and accepted with enthusiasm, mixed with emotionally charged music to a concert of significant aesthetic fuel. It will certainly keep my tank filled for weeks.
So it is with all relationships. Husband and wife need wife men. Children, parents and children need. And political leaders need the electorate and the electorate needs leadership.
This is not earth-shattering concept. But keep in mind, if you get through this next fifteen days before our presidential election, the interdependence of our citizens. Of how your vote affects your neighbor, your brother, your employer, and your children. Study of the interdependence of the problems, how they fall like dominoes once stacked together. And how we, each of us in this battle of life together as separate little dots ... waiting to be connected.
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