I say witty things when I drink this wine. I think deep thoughts.

Solieri’s descent into wickedness, set against the backdrop of the Orchestra and Chorus singing and playing the timeless masterworks of Mozart, is brilliantly haunting in revealing a world that can be cruelly cold and hateful even as it is aesthetically beautiful.

“On with the dance! Let joy be unconfined.” -Lord Byron

And more in today’s If You Read the Paper.

“To dance with the feet is one thing; to dance with the heart is another.” – Author Unknown

Tattoo made me feel closer to my country than I have in a really long time.

I heard a woman say, from a few rows behind me, “It’s like he didn’t have any bones in his body!”

Virginia Arts Festival Preview Part 3

Virginia Arts Festival Preview Part 2

Virginia Arts Festival Preview Part 1