Tuesday, October 06, 2009

Weirsdo's From the Top: We're Number One

When I posted about Moony's being concertmistress of the Emory Youth Symphony, I did not know that the orchestra will be taping an episode of FROM THE TOP in November. It is so rewarding to have a prize-winning former viola student 4th chair in the Vanderbilt Orchestra, a prize-winning daughter and former student first chair in the Auburn orchestra and about to audition for a great teacher, and the prize-winning Moony likewise preparing for a promising professional career. Given how long it takes to build a classical musician and how difficult and competitive a field it is, I feel very gratified. We can't wait to go to the taping!

In relatedly satisfying news, LEVINAS AND NINETEENTH-CENTURY LITERATURE is now number ONE on the Amazon list of hot new bestsellers (in literary criticism). Hope you're enjoying your copy, RBUD.

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8 Comments:

Blogger Tom & Icy said...

You guys are way over my head! I can't even understand the title. Like otherness, much less levinas. What's a levina? And where is the Otherness? Is it like the Netherworld? or Oz?

2:23 PM  
Blogger Karen said...

T&I. Levinas is on Amazon list of hot new bestsellers. Who cares what it means?

2:31 PM  
Blogger Nessa said...

Congratulations on all of it.

T & I, I will go look it up. I am clueless, too.

3:11 PM  
Blogger Nessa said...

Ah, a person, T & I. He is a philosopher and Talmudic commentator.

3:14 PM  
Blogger Tom & Icy said...

I was just being silly as usual. I had gone and looked it up and was reading about him with the text to speech reader I have to use until Icy went over and pulled the plug.

7:33 PM  
Blogger Doug said...

So far I'm enjoying the blue cover. I have a novel to get through first.

Congratulations on all the excitement.

7:34 AM  
Blogger Lily Strange said...

Good stuff! Congratulations all around!

9:09 PM  
Anonymous weirsdo said...

Right, Karen.

Thanks, Nessa, RBUD, and Lily.

I wouldn't expect Icy to be an intellectual, Tom.

12:17 PM  

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