Walked over to the local auditorium to hear a string quartet
Ok, perhaps I should clarify: the local auditorium was the Coolidge Auditorium of the Library of Congress . And the musicians of the Pacifica Quartet were playing a set of Stradivarius string instruments which are part of the Library's collection. And the Librarian of Congress (director of the Library of Congress), Carla Hayden, introduced the concert, as it featured the Stradivarius instruments. I was interested in the program because I knew some pieces and didn't know others. A bonus of Library of Congress concerts is the display cases outside of the auditorium which feature items related to the evening's concerts. Tonight the cases contained pages of the original handwritten scores of the Crumb Black Angels and the Barber Adagio (the quartet and orchestral versions), which are part of the library's collection. (I wish I'd thought to take a picture of them. How often do you see stuff like that?) When wondering what is in the Library's collec...