toronto stories

snowy valentines

So we've been in this deep freeze for too many days to count. Though in comparison to New York state, where they received more than 100 inches of snow, I guess 20 cm is nothing. We were expecting a dump and got some Tuesday, and more on Valentine's. I spent mine at the TSO, listening to Debussy and Stravinsky. The writeup in the Toronto Star basically covered what happened. The conductor who was supposed to perform Stravinsky got stranded on his flight from NYC to Toronto thanks to the snow so they moved Debussy to the first part of the evening. They managed to pull the conductor from Montreal who was in town for the Canadian Opera Company's Faust during that intermission so he could conduct Debussy. Then they had a backup for this Montreal conductor finish up Faust. A bit of a mess but it all worked out.

In other notes, florists were stranded and unable to make their flower deliveries on time...including mine! J. sent me a dozen roses with the note: "Happy V-Day. You might only have room to put this on the floor, but that's ok :P " A garbled voice mail from the concierge and now the flowers are brightening up my rather stark apartment. He even thought so far ahead as to order the vase with the flowers! Thanks, J, for making my winter a little bit warmer. :)

posted by toronto girl @ 6:29 PM