This Saturday and Sunday, I performed with the Westerly Chorus, Westerly, RI, and it was both exhilarating and sad because it was George "Bunky" Kent's last performance of a classical concert with the chorus, a chorus he founded 53(!) years ago.  I've played with him roughly 50 of those years, and it has always been a pleasure.  The chorus has the highest of standards, the repertoir was the same standard, and he ended his tenure by doing probably the piece that might have lead him to form the chorus to begin with, the Brahms "German Requiem".  Is there anything comperable to performing such a masterpiece, with the best possible standards of performance, and with a conductor who reveres and adores the work?  It was a very special priveledge.  George has a pops concert in June, and that will be his final gig.  As they said to him in a presentation at the end of the second concert of the requiem, he has touched the lives of literally thousands of people, and it has been a very special event always, playing for him.

Susan went down and we stayed at Mary B Cool's house, God bless her, and I took her on a lovely bird walk at Barn Island, where I took the pictures of the Yellow Warbler, Yellowthroat, and Great White.