Looking out my Backdoor: I got culture

Last Thursday Kathy, Richard, Nancie and I drove into Guadalajara for a night of highbrow music.

El Teatro Santo Degollado, in the Centro Historico district where the Orquesta Filamonica performs, is a spectacular building of European architecture, a treat in itself.

Are you impressed? I am. I grew up minus music, other than what I heard on the radio broadcast from Havre.

Kathy, however, an avid cello player for many years, is in a different league and knows music intimately, classical music, that is.

I envy her knowledge. I love classical music in which I can lose myself while listening, tran...