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Blogs are difficult for me to run, because I typically tend to forget all about the little profound observations I make by the time dinner rolls around. Here are some things that I can muster up as I get ready for bed on an entirely uneventful Friday night:

• I really wish these Aspen concerts were programmed in a way that the music seemed relevent to itself, replacing night after night of complete hodgepodge Frankenstein concerts that feature sub-par Dvorak filler and early Beethoven concerti with turn-of-the-(20th)-century late Romantic chestnuts. The best concerts have been shorter and simpler - two piece maximum. The best concert (Neruda Songs and Prokofiev 3rd Concerto) has been unified further by the common thread of a solo performer. Scattered, and long concerts might offer the most variety, but offer very little in terms of a coherent artistic interest that gains momentum through the course of the evening. This is why jazz and rock concerts are more exciting, engaging, and memorable than most classical extravaganzas.
• The mountains here are real nice.

Hmm... I guess that's it.