holiday happenings (2)

Our first ballet together, and Claire's first time in the Ohio Theater. 

the piano

We have a low-end synthsizer that has about 100 canned songs. The kids love to dance or, more usually, run in circles to the songs. They are pretty good about alternating which songs to play.

What we are listening to

Pandora. It's an amazing "free" web radio that uses the Music Genome Project.  One picks a "seed" song, composer, etc., and Pandora starts passing down lots of great music related to your seed.  For instance, this morning we've been listening to our "Phillip Glass station" and besides Glass, we also heard John Adams, Terry Riley, Meredith Monk, Steve Reich, Arvo Part, Kevin Volans, Joby Talbot.  Some of it was familiar, but a lot of the stuff we heard was completely new to us and much fun.