Saturday, June 11, 2016

End-of-a-week in June 2016

Thursday I stayed behind while Mom and Dad went to medical appointments.  We watched Final Game 5 of the Stanley Cup Finals---Penguins lost (here on home rink) to the Sharks.  The game was fast and furious for goals in the first period, no goals in the second, and the Sharks ensured their win in the third period. 

Early Friday (yesterday) I went before 8.00 (thanks to Dad) to Dr. Lori's office to get labwork done.  Helped Mom and Dee Dee minimally with a project.

Friday evening Georgia and I met up with Laurie for a briefing before heading out to Heinz Hall (amid the THree Rivers Arts Festival and a Pirates home game) for a docent-led event of tabling at the Grand Tier Foyer.  Georgia drove, we scoped out the tables, found our seats at the Orchestra level whilst listening to a presentation by Carnegie Science Center's Mike Hennesssey about a toy Pirates parrot going to the stratosphere on a weather balloon, and also watching liquid nitrogen fog about a hand-held umbrella during a demonstration.  At 19.30 we went outside the Hall to look for Tara--who had sent a text that she was not able to attend.  We then contacted Jesse, the manager, to help us in retrieving our educational items (see below), and we proceeded to set up a table for our educational materials, which consisted of Laurie's list, below.

Mineral specimens:

1)      Banded iron – earliest evidence of life on Earth!
2)      Geode
3)      Basalt and Pumice-y dark volcanic rock (nice example of the same rock forming under different conditions)
4)      Fish fossil (real, from Green River formation---Eocene formation found in Colorado, Wyoming, and Utah)
 
You will also have
5)      Replica Dippy humerus
6)      Various museum program fliers with some nice stands to display them in
7)      1 plain black tablecloth and 1 black tablecloth with museum logo
8)      Give-away “swag” – magnets that advertise CMNH Birthday Parties
~~And a replica Diplodocus carnegii skull.
 
Met up with friends and neighbors (Peggy M from the alumnae club), a friend from choir, Patty D (my mentor docent), Hank (a neighbor of my parents), and various other people.  Great crowd, with everyone from a preschooler all the way up to senior citizens.

By the time we had put away all the items (with Jesse M's help), the last piece (Also sprach Zarathustra, Op 30 by Strauss), had already started, with the projected NASA visuals and so we sat in the Grand Tier bar overlooking the Winter Garden to watch and to listen to the last of the PSO's evening.
FROM the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra's website (https://www.pittsburghsymphony.org/production/43802/the-earth-an-hd-odyssey):

THE EARTH:  An HD Odyssey
June brings the debut of Costa Rican conductor Giancarlo Guerrero, with a jam-packed program of cinematic music, including Copland's folksy El Salón México and Prokofiev's music from the Soviet comedy Lieutenant Kijé. A visually and aurally stunning second half features The Earth, a high-definition compilation of NASA footage, featuring erupting volcanoes, tropical islands and majestic glaciers. Richard Strauss' epic tone poem Also sprach Zarathustra and John Adams' exhilarating Short Ride in a Fast Machine seamlessly accompany the footage.

Artists

Giancarlo Guerrero, conductor (debut)

Program

Prokofiev: Suite from Lieutenant Kijé, Opus 60
Copland: El Salón México
~~~INTERMISSION~~~
The Earth – An HD Odyssey
  Adams: Short Ride in a Fast Machine 
  R. Strauss: Also sprach Zarathustra 

Georgia kindly dropped me off, and Mom and Dad were keen to find out Kyle's flight information.  He arrived very early this morning.
 

posted by Grace @ 6/11/2016 07:15:00 AM

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