Which, to the best of my knowledge, is not the singular of Abacus or the double imperative hyperplural, or anything like that. It's actually the name of a group that we heard last night at a local college. One of the minor pleasures of the semi-rural area where we live is that we can go to a cultural event thats the equivilent of that found in major cities -- only without the parking problem. In this case, the group was part of a concert series held by a college thats about five minutes from our house. I can stand that.
The group was pretty good, playing a range from Handel to Townshend (aka 'Pinball Wizard'). Each of the five participants was notably talented, and each had the opportunity to demonstrate their string wizardry, from the double bass to the eight string guitar, to the violin and viola, and finally the mandolin -- actually, the domra, as the woman is from Russia. Her ability to pick at hyperspeed was awesome. I didn't care for a couple of the pieces -- Pinball Wizard didn't have enough umph, and Pavane for a Princess was a little too subdued for me -- but that's being picky.
I was glad we went.
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