11/30/2009
Oddly enough, now that I look closely at the picture, it looks like someone is still living on the 2nd floor at least from what can be seen through the windows. Or maybe the plants have just taken over.
On the way to The Soup Place on Broadway, where else, for lunch I noticed a couple of decorative nutcrackers on the light poles so it must be sometime after Halloween and before Christmas.
Seeing these decorations sometime last Saturday was what reminded me to get some tickets for the annual Nutcracker Ballet at the Alberta Bair Theatre.
Both Carol and I found the performances last year—I think it was the Eugene OR company for one and I know the other was a muscular, almost brutal, performance by some trained Russians—a little wanting in a lot of ways but we thought we would give it another go this year.
We were very pleasantly surprised this year at the Sunday matinee by Ballet Idaho, a young regional company that puts on a great performance and adds a lot of kids, both dancers and singers from the Billings area. This combination led to a sell-out performance both Saturday and Sunday.
About the only problems were the staged snow fall on Sunday afternoon, sometimes turning into a mini-blizzard, and some disagreement amongst the trombones in the lower register, unusual I know, as the rest of the orchestra was as lush as it normally is. We are certainly lucky here in Billings as we have some really fat woodwind sounds.
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