Since our front yard is just a couple of blocks west of Main Street, we heard all of the traffic sounds late into the evening both nights. Sounds like people were having lots of fun. Moab's own Mardi Gras, of sorts. Bouquets also go to the Moab Music Festival. As the festival nears its ninth season, Michael Barrett has taken a gigantic step forward bringing the Marian Anderson String Quartet to Moab for a community residency project, which is currently going on.
Principal beneficiaries are the students in the school system, and appropriately so.
Music, of course, is made across a broad continuum of sounds and styles, of which classical is just one. It brings to mind the question as to just when graffiti becomes protected historic material. Without the graffiti of yesteryear, we would not have the historic material of today. And so it will be tomorrow. Not that I'm condoning mindless defacement of anything.