December 17th A day of lasts, we think

Today we went to our last concert at the Fundacion Juan March; they are presented on Sundays and Mondays at noon and usually last about an hour.  Today was a quartet composed of performers on the violin, viola, cello, and oboe.  They gave us two quartets from the late 18^th century and one modern one from this century.  It was really fun because of the contrasts in each of the pieces, one was a French piece, the second was from Germany, and the last from an American.  They won’t offer another concert until January, so this was our last.     After lunch we walked down to the Reina Sofia for another visit and this one covered modern art from the 1950’s to the 1980’s, and from what I could see it’s more and more about less and less.   Since we’ve gone through almost all the early stuff I guess we’ve reached the end of this trail as well.   Interestingly we’ve developed a great interest in Richard Serra and he’s been working all through the 90’s and 2000’s so I guess we just have to be very selective in what we want to spend our time looking at.   Tomorrow we head for Toledo and our last visit there as well, we saw a fair amount when we were there last time, so this time we want cover the bits that we missed.  Primarily the cathedral, since it's the 'Spanish Vatican' (my words).