John Evans

I've been invited back this year as an All-Star cast member of the Oakland Ballet's Nutcracker.   Ronn Guidi is bringing back the holiday favorite from December 18-24th at the Paramount Theater.   The All-Star show will be a matinee on Saturday, December 20th at 2pm.
I will be dressed as a toy soldier and I'm working on the battle scene with those pesky mice!!  Should be fun.  Come out with your friends and family and have a great time.

I'd like to take a moment on this, my favorite holiday of the year, to pay tribute to you.   I am grateful and thankful every day to the KDFC Listener Family.   We are more than half a million strong here in the Bay Area and countless thousands more around the world thanks to the Internet.   We all belong to a special community brought together by our love of timeless music.   On behalf of all of us here at KDFC, Happy Thanksgiving, John.

It's been wonderful reconnecting in person with several KDFC listeners at recent listener events.   In late October we hosted the first ever full scale classical event at Yoshi's new San Francisco location in the heart of the old jazz district in the Fillmore.   Yoshi's SF is beautiful and the concert featuring Angele Dubeau and La Pieta from Montreal was amazing.  Here's to the success of Yoshi's SF as it makes its mark on the San Francisco nightclub scene as Yoshi's Oakland has done.



This past week, KDFC presented the Bay Area concert debut of Italian pianist Ludovico Einaudi.   As Dianne Nicolini and I said from stage before the concert...we first discovered Ludovico's music 5 years ago.   Our programming team of Bill Lueth and Rik Malone singled out one of his songs and Bill played it for me one afternoon before my show.  We made the decision to present it on air that day.   The response then and since is nothing short of phenomenal.    His CDs are among the best selling at kdfc.com.   Back in May Einaudi came to the KDFC studios for a private "Intimate Lobby Concert" for about 50 listeners (Club KDFC members).    



He told us then that he was about to embark on his first tour of America and the sold-out show at Bimbo's in North Beach on November 20th brought down the house.   He played several KDFC listener favorites including the first work of his we ever played on KDFC..."Two Sunsets", or in Italian, "Due Tramonti."  You can find that song on his collection titled, "Echoes" or on the original CD from 1999, "Eden Roc."

KDFC flipped the switch on the holidays Friday night at the Embarcadero Center in the City.   Dianne Nicolini and I MC'ed the building lighting festivities at the ice skating rink at Justin Herman Plaza and then went indoors for the Hyatt Regency's atrium/tree lighting where we were joined by Rik Malone and Ray White.   It's wonderful reconnecting with listeners every year and meeting new ones.  It was a beautiful and festive November evening.   I had quite a jolt though as I navigated through a sea of people in the lobby.  When I passed Santa Claus.   He looked me right in the eye and said, "Well, hi John Evans!"   He really does know whether you've been naughty or nice!  

On a somber note...
This marks the 30th anniversary of two tragedies that devastated the San Francisco Bay Area.   People's Temple/Jonestown and the City Hall Murders of Mayor Moscone and Harvey Milk.   CNN's Soledad O'Brien reports a riveting feature on Jonestown.   It's a must-see.  And this week, the movie "Milk" opens at the Castro Theater.   I have tickets to see it this holiday weekend.   I'd really appreciate hearing your thoughts about the film.  Email me.

On a brighter note...
ACT's The Quality of Life was one of the best plays I have ever seen.  A star-filled cast including Laurie Metcalf of TV's Roseanne, JoBeth Williams, Steven Culp of Desperate Housewives and Dennis Boutsikaris.   The subject matter rattles on every level.   The Quality of Life closed last weekend but add it to your list of must see plays!!   And Dame Edna is back.   We caught opening night at the Post Street Theater and it was hilarious.  The Dame is here through January 4th.   We ran into several KDFC listeners in the lobby that night.   Finally, I just bought tickets for The View's Joy Behar who's doing a New Year's Eve 10:30pm comedy show at the Castro Theater.  What a way to ring in 2009!



Have a Fantastic Thanksgiving!!!!!







 

I mentioned this on the air last year and it was such a big hit I'm posting it for you.  Sorry it's post Halloween, but hey....
I was on vacation last week.   

Trick-Or-Treating By Star Sign

· Aries pushes the others aside to get to the door first.
· Taurus will only eat the finest of Swiss chocolates.
· Gemini goes around the neighborhood once, changes costumes and goes around again.
· Cancer stays at home and gives candy to the other trick-or-treaters.
· Leos plan their costume for months, then won’t go out because someone else had the same idea.
· Virgo wears a neatly-pressed suit and tells everyone they’re a bookkeeper.
· Libra is still standing in front of the closet trying to decide on a costume.
· Scorpio isn’t in it for the candy.
· Sagittarius will manage to wander to the next town.
· Capricorn makes a list of all the houses that give good candy and the optimal route to take.
· Aquarius builds the costume out of spare flashlights and spends all night tinkering when it shorts.
· Pisces skips the whole thing to compose poetry to the moon.

On Thursday afternoon, I had a great time MCing the KDFC Classical Christmas 4 CD Release Party at the Arterra Condominiums in San Francisco's Mission Bay.    The Bay Area's Cypress String Quartet performed two sets in the lobby.   Cecily Ward, Tom Stone, Ethan Filner and Jennifer Kloetzel played some dances by a composer I'd never heard of before.  Jennifer told me that when Ervin Schulhoff was just a boy, Antonin Dvorak discovered his piano talent and encouraged his parents to pursue his education.   In his late teens and early 20s he went on to win two major Mendelssohn awards.  He became attracted to the avant-garde music of the 20s, then American Jazz.   Schulhoff later became a communist.    He died in a Nazi concentration camp in 1942 at the age of 48.   His music was largely forgotten for more than 60 years until the Cypress String Quartet discovered some of his dances and began performing them in concert.   They've now recorded them on their new CD.



I'm still officially on vacation, hanging out at home and trying to finish "The Book Thief" by Markus Zusak.    I was talking with a friend the other day and I have no idea how I missed this but....You must check out the new vampire show on HBO titled True Blood.   It began back in September but I missed it so I am trying to watch all 8 episodes that have aired so far.   I love Comcast "On Demand."

Tonight, Tim and I celebrate Halloween and our anniversary by having dinner at our favorite San Francisco restaurant...Millennium.  It's a 5-star vegan place in the lobby of the California Hotel on Geary and Jones in the Theater District.  We celebrate many special occasions there with family and friends.    The 5 course Prix Fix menu is a wonderful culinary experience. 

Enjoy our first rain of the season this weekend and don't forget to adjust your clocks.   Fall back one hour Sunday.   Goodnight John Boy!

I'm officially on vacation this week.   I managed to take off a few days back in June but this late October vacation is really my first all summer.   I will be at Yoshi's San Francisco Wednesday night, October 27th for the Angele' Dubeau/La Pieta' concert.  I'm really looking forward to the show.   A few weeks ago I was running errands and visiting friends in the City.  I made a point to stop in the Fillmore District and check out all of the changes.   Yoshi's is only a block from the legendary Fillmore Auditorium (on the south side of Geary).    I love to study the history of the Bay Area and California.   The Fillmore District has such a rich, and tragic history.   I'm optomistic about some of the changes being made in the neighborhood designed to reinspire the jazz and music scene.  I hope to see you there.

Sunday, November 2nd I will be attending my second full day of lectures at One Day University.   It's a brilliant idea.    The brains behind it have hired some of the brightest professors from Cal-Berkeley, Stanford, Yale, Harvard and many of the nation's finest schools.   They then design a full day of lectures, four in all, at campuses around the country.   So far, One Day University is in 11 cities, mostly on the East Coast and now in San Francisco and Los Angeles.  The local campus is located at UC-San Francisco's sprawling new complex behind the Giants Ballpark, in the new Mission Bay District (on 3rd Street heading toward Dogpatch).   The lecture hall is state of the art, comfortable, easy to get to with ample parking.   This Sunday, one of the lectures will be about Beethoven's 9th Symphony.   I've listened to it three times in the past few days (Chicago Symphony Orchestra led by Daniel Barenboim).  I hope to share a few things about it when I return to the air.

Enjoy the week, the cooler weather, the coming of fall, and the return to Standard Time this Sunday.  Ciao for Niao.

If you’ve got adult children, you’ve likely been in this situation.   You’re all together, hanging out, eating, laughing, arguing, pushing buttons, grooming each other like chimps… 

…and for an instant, the sounds become muffled, you escape within yourself and feel like a fly on the wall.   You’re observing the Circle of Life.  I had that experience recently as my partner and I had a lunch party for my oldest son, his girlfriend, and my niece and nephew. 

It’s been years since we’ve all been together.    My niece Megan will be 31 soon.   Jamey just turned 27.   My son Jaisun will be 30 in March.   When they were kids, we lived 900 miles apart.   Summer visits were special.   Adulthood has estranged them yet it all melted away as we sat down for lunch.   It was comfortable and joyful.   The ties that bind. 

I watched them as they were looking at photo albums and it was at that moment when the world slowed down.   The chatter became a din and I became aware that the “kids” were now the adults.  They had become the new caretakers of the family. 

I discovered that I have faith in this new generation.  All 10 of my mother’s grandchildren are diverse, talented and artistic.  Each has a unique sense of humor.  They have their own foibles and sorrows and yet seem less encumbered by them as my siblings and I were at their age.   

Today, I feel a sense of relief that it’s no longer up to me, if it ever was, to keep it all going.   The passing of the baton has happened.   And it’s all going to be OK.

MONDAY
According to a food survey, people who eat the most of these tend to have a higher education and income.
SALADS (Winner-Erica Johnson, Emeryville)

TUESDAY
The Pentagon has 7,000 clocks, 131 stairways, 284 restrooms, 13 elevators and 691 of these.
DRINKING FOUNTAINS (Winner-Robert Reidy, SF)



WEDNESDAY
THIS IS A PRIZE AT FIVE FIRST!!!    NO WINNER IN THE TIME ALLOTTED.   I stumped you for the first time ever!
In 1928, talking movies were shown here for the first time.
IN AIRPLANES

THURSDAY
43 years ago, this Beatles song hit #1 on October 9th, 1965, on John Lennon's 25th birthday.
(The Paul song...)  YESTERDAY (Winner-Chris Nolan, SF)

FRIDAY
Actress Eva Gabor played this game with Johnny Carson on the Tonight Show in 1966 and the game became an overnight sensation.
TWISTER (Winner-Therese Porter, SF)

A friend sent this to me today. What a powerful message.

Thanks for playing along this week.
Here are the questions and answers.

MONDAY
According to PBS, people in this country read more books per capita than any other.
ICELAND (Winner-Tom Gomez, Sausalito)

TUESDAY
52% of teenagers bought at least one of these in 2007. 48% did not buy any.
MUSIC CD (Winner-Peter Harrison, Cupertino)

WEDNESDAY
Household chores...2 in 10 do this only once in a while. 5% never do.
MAKE THE BED (Winner-Tim Pavek, Danville)

THURSDAY
British movies fans say this is their favorite American movie of all time.
GODFATHER (Winner-David Stutzman, Danville)



FRIDAY
This TV show premiered on this day in 1962. One of its characters was named Daiy Moses. What was the character's more common name and also, what was the show called?
GRANNY on BEVERLY HILLBILLIES (Winner-Lydian Reed, San Francisco)

Have a great weekend and see you Sunday morning on the Big Island of Sanity.

Did you have a chance to see the Emmys Sunday? I am THRILLED that Mad Men won best drama. I gave up on network television years ago and am mostly interested in programming on HBO, Showtime, A&E, AMC, TNT and FX. These networks are doing a brilliant job and Mad Men is a great example of compelling story telling. And the music is FANTASTIC. Lots of torch songs from the early 60s by Jack Jones, Brenda Lee, etc...

I just finished a book set in the 19th and early 20th centuries. It's about a classical pianist whose playing of Schumann and Liszt etc. is inspired by the spirits who speak to him. A bizarre but captivating story. Christopher Bram's "The Notorious Dr. August."

Fall is such a great time of the year in the Bay Area. We get our last gasp of beautiful weather until the end of October and then...BAM, the rainy season begins. Yesterday, I featured Joshua Bell's new recording of Autumn from Four Seasons and it sounded so great.

Sunday, I MC'd an appearance of the KDFC Classical Invasion Orchestra at the Lafayette Art & Wine Festival. They performed the Thunderstorm movement from Summer by Vivaldi. Midway through the piece, there was this sound of rolling thunder coming from behind the stage. It was a group of volunteers from the Acallanes High School football team pulling a garbage can on wheels. It sounded just like THUNDER. I met some really nice people, several listeners and a man named John Evans from Austin, Texas!!

The apple tree in Neighbor Bill's yard, which hangs over our back fence, is just loaded. It's time to start making pies, cakes, bread, sauce etc. Hey Tim, get baking!! Tucker eats all the apples that fall to the ground and then burps all day. It's too cute. Jackie isn't happy right now. She's wearing a cone on her head to keep her from chewing on herself. Jack Russells are so wonderfully tenacious, stubborn and full of nervous energy.

Call me Crazy!

I've been a fitness buff most of my adult life but must admit in the past couple of years have grown rather bored with going to the gym several times a week. I curtailed even my yoga regimen because of recurring injuries. I needed to try something new, something REALLY challenging. And lo and behold, be careful what you wish for.

One of the account executives who works here enrolled in an elite cross training program 2 to 3 days a week that is a solid hour of high intensity exercise using weights, basic gymnastics, running, rowing. One of the great aspects of the program is that you work out in teams with tons of support and inspiration. The program is run by the grand nephew of the one and only Jack LaLanne. Chris LaLanne's gym is only a block away from KDFC so I went today for my assessment and first workout. I feel great and look forward to this 8 month commitment.

We wrapped up summer with some fun questions on the Prize @ 5 and gave away tickets for Cal Shakes performance of 12th Night at the Brun's Amphitheater in Orinda.

MONDAY
According to First Science, this art/hobby/profession uses more silver than any other.
PHOTOGRAPHY (Winner-Dale Nicoll, Concord)

TUESDAY
August 25, 1940, NY World's Fair, marked the first time two people did this in a parachute.
GOT MARRIED (Winner-L.C. Wong, San Francisco)

WEDNESDAY
This Labor Day Weekend, Americans will be traveling to San Francisco, New York, Chicago, Boston and Seattle. SF's Union Square will be their top attraction. This is New York's.
TIMES SQUARE/BROADWAY (Winner-Denise Sangster, El Cerrito)



THURSDAY
Entertainment Weekly writers have compiled a list of their 25 favorite comedies over the past 25-years.
(I then played a montage of 5 of those movies and asked you to guess what they were).
CLUELESS, A FISH CALLED WANDA, GHOSTBUSTERS, AUSTIN POWERS-INTERNATIONAL MAN OF MYSTERY, WHEN HARRY MET SALLY (Winner-John Alberti, San Ramon)

FRIDAY
According to Hasbro, 35,000 of these are made every day.
MONOPOLY GAMES (Winner-Christina Vaquera, San Francisco)



Have a great weekend!!!!

The following is a warning to dog lovers NEVER to give them raisins, grapes, onions, chocolate or macadamia nuts. They can be lethal. I wanted to share this with you, written by...

Laurinda Morris, DVM
Danville Veterinary Clinic
Danville, OH

"This week I had the first case of raisin toxicity ever seen at MedVet. My patient was a 56-pound, 5 yr. old male neutered lab mix that ate half a canister of raisins sometime between 7:30AM and 4:30PM on Tuesday. He started with vomiting, diarrhea and shaking about 1AM on Wednesday but the owner didn't call my emergency service until 7AM. I had heard somewhere about raisins AND grapes causing acute Renal failure but hadn't seen any formal paper on the subject. We had her bring the dog in immediately. In the meantime, I called the ER service at MedVet, and the doctor there was like me - had heard something about it, but hadn't seen anything on it."

(The story goes on and sadly, the dog never stabilized and the owners decided to euthanize).

"This is a very sad case - great dog, great owners who had no idea raisins could be a toxin. Please alert everyone you know who has a dog of this very serious risk. Poison control said as few as 7 raisins or grapes could be toxic. Onions, chocolate, cocoa and macadamia nuts can be fatal, too."

When I came to work today, Hoyt and Betsy from the KDFC Morning Show were telling me about this video that Betsy found on the CNN website. It's about a pack of dogs that have learned how to catch a bus each day that takes them to and from a river where they swim and ride in strangers' canoes before heading back home in the evening. It's the sweetest story that you fellow dog lovers will really appreciate.  Go to cnn.com and type in the search bar DOGS TAKE THE BUS.

I love day trips and we'd planned to take one to the Russian River this past Saturday.  But there was a last minute change of mind.   So instead of heading north, we went south.  We left the house before 8am and stopped in the town of Half Moon Bay. 



We had breakfast at the charming Main Street Grill.   The short order cooks were all singing along to the songs on the jukebox.   It was fun.   The shops were not opened yet but I noticed a bright orange notice posted on the windows of each business imploring locals to spend their money in town as the economy and high gas prices are hurting local business people.

From there it was to Laguna Beach which is just over the Santa Cruz County border on Highway 1.   It was still early and the fog was still hugging the coast so there were very few people out yet.  We hiked down to the beach and were the only people there.   But there must have been hundreds of pelicans "socializing" on the sand and nearly as many flying overhead in formation.   They allowed us to get so close before flying off.  I am amazed how big and prehistoric-looking they are.



By the time we got to Santa Cruz, the sun had burned off the fog and the city was PACKED full of people.  Too many people!!   We stopped downtown to go book shopping and I found a hardcover version of Melville's Moby Dick for just $8.00 and an Italian vegetarian cookbook for just $10 bucks.

It would appear downtown Santa Cruz is doing well but I sure do miss some of the old buildings that had to be demolished after the 1989 earthquake.  I remember walking through town in November or December, in the weeks after the quake with a dropped jaw and deep sadness over the massive destruction.   Time marches on.

As we made our way back up the coast...we passed the parking lot of Laguna Beach and it was packed so I guess the pelicans had to find a new place to hang out while the surfers and sunbathers played.  We stopped along Highway 92 and hit a couple of produce markets and statuary shops.  I found a "David" I'd love to put in the backyard but wow....way out of my budget.  It's fun to look though.

Coming home is always the best part of each trip.   That reminds me of the Jesse Colin Young song from 1974 called "Ridgetop."  



Jesse lived for years in the wilds of Marin County, on a ridge top in Inverness.   In the song, he sang that the best parts of each trip were the Golden Gate Bridge.  I totally relate.    We got home early enough for a tub and a nice dinner and still have an hour or two to read.    I hope you had a great weekend.

Hi there.  Here are this week's questions and answers.

MONDAY
It was August 11, 1896 that an electric light bulb socket was patented with this feature.
PULL CHAIN (Winner-Duane Moses, San Francisco)

TUESDAY
According to the Travel Channel, a single one of these contains about 12,000 parts and takes an average of 300 craftspeople one year to make.
STEINWAY PIANO (Winner-Mike Steck, Sunnyvale)



WEDNESDAY
What is the sum of these roman numerals in their singular form.    M D C L X V I
1,666 (Winner-David Gorsulowski, Portola Valley)

THURSDAY
This ball was invented in 1953.
WIFFLEBALL (Winner-Paul Roskoph, Palo Alto)



FRIDAY
Olympics trivia-In the 2004 games, there were 4,305 of these.  In the 1952 games, just 518.
FEMALE ATHLETES (Winner-Colleen Cowl, Castro Valley)

Have a superb weekend.

Here are the questions and answers this week from our Prize @ 5 trivia game.

MONDAY
According to AOL's Email Addiction Survey, 50% say they access email while driving. Two thirds get their email here.
IN BED (Winner-Doc Young, San Francisco)

TUESDAY
On this day, August 5, 1884, the cornerstone was laid at what would become this national landmark.
STATUE OF LIBERTY (Winner-Jeffrey Maiten, Los Gatos)



WEDNESDAY
This runs fore to aft on the port side of a ship, and aft to fore on the starboard side.
SHIP'S NAME (Winner-Ned Moore, Sonoma)

THURSDAY
On October 24, 1946, we got to see the first-ever picture of this.
EARTH, FROM SPACE (Winner-Patrick Lane, Daly City)



FRIDAY
Today is 8-8-08. The Olympics began at 8:08pm in Beijing. There are 8 furlongs in a mile, spiders have 8 legs, octopus 8 tentacles, Hannukah 8 nights, 8 rotated 90-degrees is the symbol for infinity. And the atomic number 8 represents this on a periodic table.
OXYGEN (Winner-Giovanni Lanfranchi, Pacifica)

Have a grrr-8 weekend and I hope you'll be listening Sunday to the Big Island of Sanity from 9-Noon. We're always commercial free.

WOW.   The newly restored Alameda Theater in downtown Alameda is just stunning!  



Tim and I and a friend from Oklahoma wanted to go see The Dark Knight Monday, on my day off.   So we decided it would be a treat to check it out at the new/old theater.    When the movie house opened on the island of Alameda in 1932, it featured some of the most beautiful art deco touches anywhere.  And it had one of the largest screens in the entire Bay Area.   But times changed and in our attempts to modernize, we rob some of our best treasures of their very life and character.  The Alameda fell prey to that.  It even became a roller skating rink in 1980. 

Well...it's a new era in Alameda.  The theater restoration project, the multiplex built to adjoin it and the parking garage are fantastic.  And every single art deco detail is intact.  Even the phone booths are still there next to the restrooms, minus the phone of course.  But it's a quiet little cubby to talk on the cell phone and find out where your friends are. 




My KDFC work mate Jay lives a few blocks from the theater and says its reopening has totally changed the neighborhood.  It's brought it back to life.  Kudos to Alameda for getting it done.   I love old theaters and have nothing for praise for the fantastic job the restoration teams did on the Paramount in Oakland, the California Theater in San Jose and the Rafael in San Rafael.   Now if we could just get the old Fox in downtown Oakland finished.



Oh, the movie "The Dark Knight"...I must admit I was pretty disappointed.   Heath Ledger was fantastic but the rest of it was just too explosive and noisy .  And the plot was too convoluted for my taste.   But the theater experience more than made up for it.

Saturday was such a perfect day!   I managed a rare day to myself and decided to spend it in Sonoma as I was to MC the Midsummer Mozart Festival concert that evening at the Gundlach Bundschu Winery.



The drive from the Oakland Hills to Sonoma is only about an hour.   I stopped a couple times to buy cherries and pumpkin seeds to snack on.   I got to the town of Sonoma just after 2.  It was in the mid 90s but thankfully, not at all humid.   I walked around town, got some ice cream at the El Dorado Hotel and checked with the spa down the street to see if they had any openings.  No...all full.   So I checked with the MacArthur Place Hotel and Spa on Broadway,  just a short walk from the center of town.   I stayed there a number of times back in the early 2000s and hadn't been back in a few years.  The gardens are stunning and the outdoor garden artwork is whimsical and charming.   



After a couple hours of pampering, I stopped at the Thai Cafe on Broadway.   It's just a tiny restaurant with about 10 tables and they had several vegetarian items on the menu.   I had a light dinner and it was fantastic.    Then it was off to the winery which is just a few miles from town.   Gundlach Bundschu is simply beautiful and its history goes back to 1858.   After walking around the grounds, I found a secluded spot in the shade and read for about an hour before the concert started.  

I'm the middle of Wallace Stegner's  "A Shooting Star."   It's a captivating story that takes place in Hillsborough in 1960 (ish) about a woman raised with privledge, the platinum spoon, and marries a doctor only to find herself dissatisfied with the very meaning of her life.   Stegner's books fascinate me.  If you're not familiar with him, he's been refered to as the Dean of Western Writers.   A more modern Steinbeck even though Steinbeck was just about seven years older.   Stegner was a professor at Stanford where he founded the creative writing program.   One of his students was Sandra Day O'Connor!!  He quit in about 1970, disenchanted by the affect that the student rebellions at the time had on learning.  He became an activist himself, a staunch environmentalist and one of the most gifted writers of the 20th century.   A few years ago, Tim and I went to the Stegner exhibit at a peninsula library which displayed his desk and typewriter in a recreation of his home office.  There were several kiosks with audio presentations voiced by Stegner's good friend, actor/director Robert Redford.  Stegner died in a traffic accident while on a lecture tour in Santa Fe in 1993.   The 100th anniversary of his birth is next year, 2009.


(Mary and Wallace)

After several great chapters of my book, it was time to join the crowds for the night's concert.  The Gundlach Bundschu concert venue is a hillside, the bottom of which meets the stage.  George Cleve led the 13 piece chamber orchestra in Mozart's Gran Partitta.   The sun dropped below the hill midway through the piece.   I welcomed the crowd for the second half of the concert and as always, I am humbled by the warm and enthusiastic reception that KDFC always gets.    Russian/British pianist Nikolai Demidenko played with the larger 40 piece orchestra performing Mozart's 24th Piano Concerto.  Demidenko was flawless!   I noticed a number of times when Cleve from the podium watched him in wonder during Nikolai's solos in the first movement.

A relaxing day, an enchanting evening and a good night's sleep.
Fulfilled!