Yesterday, I was here...
For an afternoon rehearsal of this...
*Xerxes* by George Freidrich Handel
I was sitting under this..
Suddenly, the building began to SHAKE!!!! Really shake..... two huge jarring jolts!
Our Maestro stopped the music....the few of us sitting in the audience, looked at each other, looked around....and Maestro Summers announced that "Yes, we just had an earthquake"! I looked up at the chandelier....memories of what the 1989 Loma Prieta Quake had done to it.... but nothing was moving.... our *Diva*, Susan Graham, who was in the midst of an aria, had felt nothing! We all laughed (nervously) and made jokes about how large a quake it had been..(it was "only a 4.2"....but as it was centered just across the Bay in Berkeley - we really felt it)! Rehearsal did continue.... after all, the "Show Must Go On"!
Later that night, I was in the gorgeous Castro Theater..watching a movie at the "Berlin and Beyond" Film Festival ....
When.....yes....MORE SHAKING!
An aftershock! But, hey, it's San Francisco...and we're *used* to this....
*trust me, one NEVER gets used to it*!
By the time I arrived home, I was tired....but made a cursory search of my place to make sure everything was still standing.... it was....so I was off to bed. (Perchance to dream -in unshaking peace! ) A-ha-ha!
Love,
♥ Robin ♥
