Aslan?

For some reason this reminds me of something from the C.S. Lewis Narnia series. It's the doorbell to Bill & Dale's lovely house in Kew Gardens.

Went to a concert played by friends Jan & Frances Pfeiffer-Rios & a couple of their colleagues last night. Mozart String Quartet in G Major, K.387, Ravel Duo for Violin and Cello, Beethoven Piano Trio op.70, #1, "Ghost". I'd heard the Ravel before but the other were new to me (at least I don't remember having heard them). The concert was free, so you couldn't beat the price with a stick. I think taking pieces too fast in that space, though, (it was a church) is not a good idea - esp. in the Ravel, I thought the slow mvt. could have been even slower & the last movement as well, in order to hear all the complicated things that were going on. More variety of tone colors would have been good too - I esp. liked the spookiness of the string sound in the Beethoven slow mvt. & wish they'd used more of that in the slow movement of the Ravel. Nothing like an armchair quarterback, eh? Today, tootling, toddling & laundry then a Melrose rehearsal. Tomorrow heading out for the Cambridge grocery run & hope to make it home before the lovely "wintry mix" descends on us for the rest of the week. Lovely.