Year 23 begins

 In less than a half an hour, my first class of the fall starts.

So, as per tradition, here's Brahms' "Academic Festival Overture"

Here's hoping this semester is more like the ones from the "before times" than those of the past few years.

(I chose the one led by Bernstein intentionally; as a callback to former times that did have SOME things better than the immediately-past times. I also remember a high school French teacher talking about how they saw two New Year's Day broadcasts - this was back when there were two Germanies - and the one from East Germany had a very dour and serious conductor, and the music seemed more subdued whereas the one from West Germany, they had Bernstein as the conductor and, she said "he was jumping all around the podium, very happy")