Summer’s over, time for the new season!
In 1922, the English poet AE Housman wrote: When summer’s end is nighing And skies at evening cloud, I muse on change and fortune And all the feats I vowed When I was young and proud. I always find the end of summer a deeply nostalgic time. Perhaps it’s the memories of going back to school as a child: that sense of something magical ending accompanied by the excitement of a new year, or maybe it’s just the oddness of putting on trousers after months in T shirts and shorts! As we prepare for the opening of the new Jacksonville Symphony season on September 30, the same nostalgic haunts me. Having sweated profusely for the last week while moving into a colonial-style house in Avondale,