chicago / memorial day weekend

bear pride in chicago was the least memorable of the 7 i've been to. maybe i'm too old....

friday, there to see barenboim conduct the last act of parsifal - one of his farewell concerts. (the1st half of the concert being 'notations' - boulez.) this was the perfect antidote to the whole da vinci farce. and quite sublime. it didn't hit me in the gut the way bruckner's 9th did last year at the same time. although i enjoyed it just as much. odd to think of wagner as cerebral...

also the frank lloyd wright home/studio on sunday....what a pleasure...invoked nostalgia for the affluent, liberal childhood of 80, 100 years ago.