Jerusalem Quartet

Joan, Louisa and I were so excited to see the Jerusalem Quartet - they even had a guest cellist. The only difficulty was that we had to sneak in the back door because Joan had received an email from the Palestinian action group she'd just met the weekend before at their film festival saying that they would be holding a protest and would we like to come?

Apparently the Jerusalem Quartet are funded by the Israeli government making them a political statement and something no-one in good conscience could possibly attend.

But the tickets were $90 each so we went and snuck in.

Turns out we're just not that high brow. It was quite the night. 3 hours of solid chamber music - nary a word or a smile the whole time. Fascinating - but an hour or so might have done the trick.

It was a great night still - Louisa wore the dress Susie bought for her birthday and we had Vietnamese for dinner quite late and felt very cosmopolitan.