Saturday night was the annual fundraiser for the Nautilus music series. This event started several years ago and is of the format of 2 local musicians (usually amateurs) performing classical music with an intermission dessert party with tea, coffee and donated desserts.
This year the performers were Marian Specter and Malcolm Bruce, both pianists. They performed an entire show of duets - a Mozart Sonata, an assortment of canon etudes and a couple of more modern tango pieces. As well, Marian did a running commentary about the composers and the works as well as teaching the audience about canons. Lisa Buchanan put in a brief appearance to lead the audience in a few rounds ("Row, Row, Row Your Boat" and "Amazing Grace") to get us into the canon mood.
The desserts offered were wonderful - donations from the chefs at Charlotte Lane and Lothar's plus many more provided by music lovers in the area. There were about 20 desserts with 90% of them chocolate - hard to choose! But very tasty!
There was a canon based quiz for a prize of a gift certificate to the Osprey - I actually got the answer correct but so did lots of other people so I didn't win the draw from the correct answer sheets. At least the winner was someone I know - the husband of one of my fellow hookers who is also the carpenter who built the display stands for our rug show. So a deserving guy.
All in all a very good evening of entertainment.
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