The Symphony

There is a retired conductor who lives in Hamilton, he used to conduct the Toronto Symphony. But now he conducts a full symphony and preforms just for kids. His name is Borris Brott. He is very good. He engages the kids and teaches them all the sections of the symphony. He even teaches them about different instruments, all while the kids listen to beautiful peices written by Beethoven and Motzart etc. He holds concerts for school aged kids about 3-4 times a year. We try and go whenever we can. It is ussually a sold out preformance of 1000 kids. We go with our home school friends. This past Tuesday we went to one of his concerts and the kids enjoyed themselves immensly. However our seats were in the middles of a row of about 60 seats, and wouldn't you have gussed it, one of them had to go to the bathroom in the middle of the preformance. Isn't that always the way with kids, you try and get them to go before the show starts, but it never fails, someone always has to pee so bad and can't hold it any longer. And the concert was only 1 hour long. So in utter desperation of not being able to hold it any longer, our middle son ran to the bathroom during a very beautiful piece of music. Maybe we need to start working on becoming a little more refined and proper in our attempts to be cultured. Kids will always be kids...they make me smile (of course only after the moment has passed).