Wednesday 05/14/2025
Last night’s concert was fun, a bunch of high-school “merit scholars” (whatever that means) from the Community School of Music and Arts (which I’d never heard of), 13- to 18-year-olds, each performing some kind of solo, instrumental or vocal. All very skilled.
After the show I sat down and re-made the music concert video, to correct mis-spellings of two people’s names on the title cards.
First up today was a walk. Joanne is trying to establish a group walk on Wednesday mornings. This time the only other available walker didn’t show, so it was just us two. We went to the Baylands and had a nice 2-mile level walk. Very few bird species, just some seagulls and a couple of mallards.
After lunch I spent an hour practicing guitar and some songs. At 5 was time for the monthly 6th floor meeting. No big news. Then instead of joining the rest of the 6th floor at dinner, I instead had been invited by David Greene and Jane to eat with them and Barbara. Very pleasant dinner. David had long experience as a music journalist so I asked him about performance fees for amateur performances. Turns out he has a friend who is actually an attorney working in the intellectual property field. Based on what he’s heard this friend say, it’s not an issue. As long as nobody is getting paid and no admission is charged, nobody cares. The whole point of copyright and rights management and permissions is to protect the flow of money; no money, no concern.
At 7:30 we had an interesting lecture by a naturalist about biological mimicry. Good talk.
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