thank you all for all the nice comments about my post. it was written very late last night, a little drunk, and it seemed very incoherent at the time. i never reread it until this afternoon, so i was happy to find it unembarassing... one joni-lurker asked permission to post it on the dar williams list, which i agreed to.
i remember thinking during the show how i wanted to write about each musical moment, but i was too tired late last night (and i'm too lazy, now). did want to say to bob that david johanson didn't do his song in folk-style at all, it was more like delta blues, with banjo and guitar. he looked a little wasted (and his look is bearded, moustached, very late-sixties) and the wasted may have been an act, but my friend christopher commented that it was always nerve-racking seeing if he was going to come in on time. still, very effective, and his voice was just right for it. martha redbone, a very attractive young black woman with a great r&b voice, took the first solo. i mentioned earlier how intriguing it was to hear handel sung with such a contemporary tone. after singing the verse, she ended up scatting with randy brecker on trumpet. no more to say about it. patrick, posting late again, after seeing my first opera by anyone named strauss, 'electra', with deborah voight, rene pape and, completely amazing as electra, gabriele schnaut. np - ariadne auf naxos >david johanson >(truly bizarre, and kind of wonderful), jane (just perfect on 'if >god be for >us, who can be against us'),
