Tea at B & O Espresso

Both as a public service and as a way to note this for myself...

B&O serves a high tea. They do it weekdays, from 3p-5p.

However, because they do everything from scratch, they need at least one day notice, and you need to order in advance. So, today, the earliest one could have tea is tomorrow.

Alas.

Trinidad!

kate_schaefer wrote to me with a snippet of something we were talking about last night:

Trinidad!
...and the big Mississippi,
and the town Honolulu...

This was just enough to get me finding a few things. The piece in question is "The Geographical Fugue" or "Fuge aus der Geographie" by Ernst Toch.

While searching for more details, I found this reminiscence by Lawrence Weschler, who is Toch's grandson. Among other things, it turns out the English translation of the piece was made at the instigation of John Cage -- which is probably why I performed it with my college choir, as both Cage and I are alumni of Pomona College.