Friday evening was an outing to see Christine Lavin at the Somerville Theater, organized by
Unsurprisingly, we ran into several people we know (including
Today was Coronation; while it was a hard choice to skip Black Rose, there were many reasons for me to go as I did, and I wasn't disappointed. Brian and Anna gave as good a Coronation as I expected, full of well-considered ritual and deep feeling. Brian proves to have a fine singing voice, first singing to Anna as he crowned her, and then in a delicious duet of the two of them during the entertainment.
That entertainment was the high point of the day. It was a court experiment that we haven't seen in a long time, mixing court business in with a wide variety of amusements, including storytellers, musicians, and dancers of every sort.
All in all, it's been an entertaining weekend. Just the thing before a first week of the month, when our lives get overbusy again...