Schumann & Introspection

It was another truly beautiful early Spring day today, and a great day to disconnect from NCAA basketball for a few hours and readjust my sense perceptions. Benson Great Hall and the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra and the music of Robert Schumann (1810-1856) were the perfect vehicles for that perception shift.



Free tickets didn't hurt, either.

I like Schumann. I like most all the composers of the Romantic era. No surprise, yes? :) Lovely concert, and right afterwards I made a beeline for the library to see if they had anything by him. Score! A three-CD set of his symphonies and overtures. Yum.

And lest you think that indulging oneself sitting on one's butt at the symphony is little different than doing the same in front of the TV and March Madness... just try and absorb the content of a scholarly article from the Harvard Theological Review on "The Apostle Paul and the Introspective Conscience of the West" while watching Wisconsin get crushed by Cornell.