Music and Potatoes

This week's rehearsals and performances are like the horse of a different color.  Folk songs with Ryoko Moriyama one day, Berlioz's Roman Carnival Overture, Dvorak's Slavonic Dances, and Vivaldi's Spring the next, and tomorrow we start an all Tchaikovsky program including the Polonaise from Eugene Onegin, The Violin Concerto and the Sixth Symphony.  In order to ground myself I ate a potato from Hokkaido for dinner.  How many ways are there to cook a potato?  Tonight I boiled it and topped it with some shrimp and broccoli cooked in garlic butter.  It was a good (and big) potato and there are many more.  Many more.  Lots of colors, lots of music, lots of potatoes in this crazy life.