During another
Town Hall Meeting after-party conversation last week, an SLSO fan told me that the premiere of Beethoven's "Eroica" Symphony and the Lewis and Clark party's departure from the Mandan villages en route to the Pacific were on the
same date. Depending on the hour of the concert and the
time the Corps of Discovery's oars
were in the Missouri, he surmised, these two expeditions into new territory began at
about the same time.
