Vienna Boys Choir Was==>AWESOME!!

Good Monday morning my loyal and faithful readers. I want to get right to important stuff, like Billi Pod’s report card on VIENNA BOYS CHOIR- CHRISTMAS IN VIENNA @ Carnegie Hall==>AAA+<==like, awesome. What an outstanding afternoon of traditional and modern Christmas music.

The house appeared to be sold-out and my seat was super-excellent, 11 rows from the stage in dead center of the orchestra. Awesome.

What wonderful voices. You know, I cannot imagine what it must feel like for a 12 year old boy to be performing in front of a packed house in Carnegie Hall, in the Greatest City In The World. Add to that the fact the several of them performed solo pieces. Wow!!

I want to share with you just a bit of background information on the group --

The Vienna Boys Choir was formed in 1498 and was under the control of the ruling Kings until 1918, when they became an independent and private institution.

Today the Choir maintains its own boarding school where 250 male students, from all over the world, study and rehearse. All of the choir boys must live in this boarding school. From this group, 100 members between the ages of 10 and 14 are selected and divided into 4 touring choirs. Together they give around 300 concerts world-wide in front of approximately 500,000 people. Each group spends 9 to 11 weeks of the school year on tour.

Yes, my loyal and faithful readers this epic concert certainly got Billi Pod into a festive holiday mood.

I walked back to PHC (a little over a mile) even though it was kinda nasty and breezy.

Settled in to finish reading the Sunday papers when, WTF, I came upon something I have to share with you --

The following is from the weekly column of Mike Lupica in Sunday’s The Daily News:

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“Deciphering the Urban myth ...

Urban Meyer is leaving Florida for one reason: He doen’t think he can win there anymore.

But Meyer must think he can beat Penn State, that’s why he’s sticking around for one more game, the last for him before he goes to the pros. What a guy.

As smart a football coach as Meyer has been, for a long time, he certainly treats the rest of us like dummies, doesn’t he?”

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WOW!! And, this is from a columnist who has been highly supportive of Meyer and the Gator Nation in the past.

Anyway, this being a Monday, it is my usual errands and stuff day. You know, I think there may be an important holiday event in the very near future -- what is it? Oh well, I guess I will remember later, I hope ... anyway ...

Tonight’s entertainment event --

7:00==>BLOOD FROM A STONE-“a darkly comic portrayal of a troubled working-class family in New Britain, CT, a household on the verge of implosion.”

Starring are Ethan Hawke and Daphne Rubin-Vega. It is playing at a theater on my block and, yes, it has those two dreaded words in combination ... “dark and comedic” ... and you know what that usually means, don’t you ... “very dark and not very funny.” We will see. Stellar cast however.

OK, got lotta things and stuff to do, so I will close by sharing with you loyal and faithful readers --

Musings from THE MIND OF BILLI POD (a memoir in progress):

“Monte Python hates snake jokes.”

GO YANKEES AND GO GATORS!!

Billi Pod

“Don't pick a fight with an old man. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.”