Goodness, time just flies when one is retired. I thought I was only a few days behind in posting to my blog but now I see it's been over two weeks. Sorry!
     We just got back from watching a baseball game and it was such a beautiful night. It was 85 at game time but a light breeze was blowing and the sun was behind the clouds so it was very pleasant. Better yet our team, the AAA Louisville Bats, won the game. They even hit a home run out of the park (glad I didn't park my car on the street behind the field). All in all it was a very enjoyable evening.
     We've been on a movie kick lately. Last week we went to see Hot Tub Time Machine and The Bounty Hunter, both at the discount movie theater. The hot tub movie had several funny parts but the story was minimal. My husband thought the editing was poor. The Bounty Hunter was the better of the two movies but I was happier having only paid $2 to see it.
     On Saturday I was hanging out with friends as my husband went to his mother's house and we watched Leap Year on pay per view. I thought it was a very enjoyable movie but the Irish scenery alone was worth the price. Beautifully shot. Today I went to Letters To Julliette with (female) friends. Another very enjoyable movie this time with spectacular Italian scenery. Admittedly they were both chick flicks but if your man is not holding your hand by the end of the movie, he is really cold hearted.
     The other film we saw this week was a documentary about the Louisville Orchestra. It chronicles how the orchestra came up with a unique way to raise money back in the 1940's. It comissioned orchestral works from 20th century composers and then recorded them for sale. The record sales never took off as expected but the orchestra became famous throughout the world for originating new music. A solo dance by Martha Graham (the famous choregrapher) to a commissioned piece of music led to an appearance by the orchestra at Carnegie Hall in New York City. This led to Radio Free Europe using their recordings to broadcast behind the iron curtain as an example of what an American city could accomplish. This was at a time when Russian composers were restricted as to the types of music they could write. Later when a delegation of Russian composers came to the U.S. as part of detante, they insisted on visiting Louisville to see where the "new music" came from. The commisioned music was used as background music throughout the documentary and was performed by today's Louisville Orchestra. We found it very enjoyable, almost like going to a concert, especially so since we are long time subscribers to the orchestra. The name of the film is Music Makes The City.