Sunday 11/12/2023
Today’s plan is for Scott and June to come here just after 2 and for four of us to drive to SFJazz for the Boogie Woogie Festival. But first thing comes an email from Sandy, she doesn’t feel well, go without her. I spend some time before lunch trying to find people who would like to use her ticket but no sale. People going to the Opera instead, or to the SWBB game, which I am sorry to miss but not much.
At ten I met with Ian in the auditorium to try to figure out what went wrong yesterday when he couldn’t play the DVD for an opera as scheduled. My diagnosis is that the new Blu-Ray player is very finicky about disc quality. The very old opera disc had fair number of fine scratches and smudges. My fix was to show him the external DVD player that goes with the Macbook Air we keep backstage. Hook the Air by HDMI to the projector, the Apple player had no problem with the old DVD. So that will the route in future, for discs that aren’t in perfect shape.
So off to SF. This was a great trip. Smooth ride, easy traffic, despite our initial concern about streets being closed for the APEC Summit. And an excellent, really outstanding concert, six great pianists alternating, having fun with jazz and boogie woogie. Couple pictures.
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