There's plenty going on in this city to take our minds off our local traffic congestion and weather. Carol and I and several hundred other people attended a Christmas concert featuring two local youth choirs at the Notre-Dame Basilica this evening: the Calixa Lavallée (university) Choir, conducted by a fellow student of music, and the (younger, high-school age) Chorale De La Salle conducted by Robert Filion who has trained this choir to an impressively high standard; they perform from memory, even when singing in Finnish, Spanish, Slovenian or Latvian, have been broadcast on the CBC and go on international tours. Why haven't I heard of them before? The school where this music teacher works is in Lower Town, just round the corner from our house.
Tomorrow six of us are going to watch a matinée performance of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night at the Glebe Community Centre, the actor who plays Sir Andrew Aguecheek being a member of our flying club.
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