WILD ANIMALS I HAVE KNOWN

On Saturday, I was in a walk in the Ernest Thompson Seton Park.  I lost interest in READING LOLITA IN TEHRAN, so I decided to start read Seton's famous book WILD ANIMALS I HAVE KNOWN instead. (We had a copy up into the attic, so I didn't have to go to the library.)

It's a wonderful book.  Seton is a great storyteller, and also drew the book's fine illustrations.  So far I've read the story of a wolf pack leader called Lobo and the efforts to trap him; and started the one about a crow pack leader called Silverspot.  The latter, set in Toronto in the Castlefrank area, tells of the different musical tones Silverspot used to lead his group. (A group of crows is called a "murder," right?)

Cecilia and I have made a date for dinner Friday.  Coincidentally, THE HUFFINGTON POST had a column about what not to do on a first date! (In yesterday's TAXI DRIVER, Travis Bickle took his date to a Swedish porno movie.  It didn't end well.) I think I'll wear a cardigan and share a sundae with her.  A week from Wednesday they're showing Audrey Hepburn's ROMAN HOLIDAY at the Event Screen:  maybe she'll want to see it with me. (Sure, I know it's optimistic to think about the second date before you're in the first one.)

At our Coro Verdi concert in June we'll be doing some songs we haven't sung for years, like "Un Bel Raggio Lusinghier" from Rossini's SEMIRAMIDE, "In Mezzo al Mar" and "Din Don." We rehearsed "Din Don" this evening, but it didn't help that the score had some of the baritone-bass notes wrong!