We have been immersing ourselves in music and time with friends as the brief time of our visit in Rochester is winding down. We have had breakfasts, lunches and dinners with friends and many visits with grandson Josh and Rohma. We have seen Rochester weather deteriorate from balmy warm days not expected this late into September, to chill and rain, more expected, but less wonderful. The view out our windows to the north and west today is grey, but it isn’t so cold we couldn’t walk to a concert nor so wet as to require more than a light jacket.

Speaking of concert; we were at a program at Kilbourn Hall last night where Ossia was performing. This is a student run group that has been around for years.  They focus on new music that can be a challenge to listen to. It was a wonderful 2 hours of very interesting music extraordinarily well performed. When looking up the performance information we came across a program called Tuesday Pipes at noon on Tuesdays. It takes place at Christ Church, across from Eastman School of Music. If you have read any of my blogs from Jazz Fest ,you  might remember that this is one of venues. The Organ Department of ESM has installed an organ there, and it is one of two in the church. We had never heard a performance on either of the them. This was our chance to here both in one concert. We will certainly return to this church for Tuesday Pipes when we are back in Rochester.

We are headed off to another concert tonight in Kilbourn in the Faculty Artist Series. We have also attended two Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra concerts. The opener featured Yfim Bronfman playing Prokofiev and concluding with Dvorak’s New World Symphony. Expected to be bored by “yet another performance” of the New World, but I was entranced  by the beauty of the performance. It was as if I had not heard it in a very long time.

I have been making maps of the main routes of our coming travels in Spain and Portugal. If you have any interest, here are the links to the maps  https://goo.gl/maps/E8NApEcLKEC2 for first 10 days with Temple B’rith Kodesh group and https://goo.gl/maps/b9NaThmx6EF2 for the OAT trip to Portugal and Spain. That last strip continues on to Ovieda where we eventually fly back to Madrid to fly home.