Saturday - A Busy Day

Master Class - Escher Quartet Teacher & Student String Quartet

This morning grandpa drove us down to Juarez Park for the first organic market - they will be every Saturday from now on.  It was quite interesting and the girls bought a few things there, like organic soap, earrings and scarves.  From the park we walked to Bellas Artes to watch a Master Class taught to a young (20's) string quartet who are students there for the Chamber Music Festival.  The teacher was a member of the Escher String Quartet and he was excellent.  They played a Haydn piece and he critiqued it and made suggestions on how to improve their interpretation.  They played each section over several times while the teacher worked with mainly the first violinist.   It was very interesting. We also walked around the Bellas Artes and looked at the unfinished Siquieros mural that is there.

From there, we walked around so the girls could do some more shopping and ended back at the Artisan's Market.  We stopped to visit with Patricia who played with Beth Ann when we lived in San Miguel in 1972-3.  She is now married and has 3 children - the youngest is 16.

From there we took a taxi home in time for Johanna's final lesson with Turkkan.  Lindsay had lots of computer time during the lesson.

I made schnitzel for dinner and everyone seemed to enjoy it.  There were more signs of rain and we did have quite a lot.  Between the last 2 rains there was about 3 inches.  Great for the poor farmers.

We played cards and Sequence for evening entertainment.