Charles E. Burchfield (1893-1967)

and asked us to pick up her sister, Ms. Ziemann as she Mrs. M. had grippe.) So we did. A nice service—our church is really beautiful now— Our dinner served buffet style (this was B’s idea and it was fun). We spread all the stuff out in the kitchens. M. had brought frozen fruits for a fruit cup—(boysenberries, red raspberries, grapes, peach and cherries.) A fine dinner—chicken, mushroom & giblet dressing, with cranberry sauce, baked ham & pine-apple, pan-browned potatoes, sweet-potatoes, salad (lettuce, tomatoes, avocado, & pine-apple cream-cheese dressing—olives, onions, celery—and for desert choice of pumpkin pie, cherry pie & apple sauce pie—candy & nuts dates & figs. A fine dinner and we enjoyed it to the full. Afterwards—fun-handed rummy—afterwards M & H left. In the evening I brought in the Sibelius albums 1 & 2 Symphonies, played by Kajanus, and played first the two Karelia Suite selections—Intermezzo & Alla Marcia, which to me have a far far away mood, of old days, in November, or of childlike joys of Christmas,—Then, the mood having been set we turned out all the lights and played the Second Symphony. It recorded superb—altho 17 years old, the recording revealed all the mystery of Kajanus’ interpretation. Outside the all-but-full man high in the east, and hazy from fine cloud films, lit up the snowy heath, patterned with black trees. The Sibelius music had all its pristine power & beauty—a timeless work of art.