Categories: uncategorized
Date: 28 April 2002 21:01:00
Finally got the opera music yesterday. It looks fairly playable, unless of course the speeds are silly. Due to my great dithering (sounds like a remote Cornish village - Great Dithering and Little Dithering by the Sea), though, I'm not going to have time to get my bow rehaired before the run. Ah well - that can be my excuse for a fuzzy sound now and again. Adrian and Alison are still expecting to put me up in Oxford, I just need to phone them 'after the Forsyte Saga please' to check how to get to their place from the centre of town.
Dinner party last night at B's. Sophie & Nigel came round for Carbonara, bringing peppery crisps (mmmmm) and olives (hmmm?). All the things you're not supposed to talk about over dinner were discussed. Death, religion, sex, politics etc etc. Oh - and tango. In fact, the religion / church thing was quite a feature. I keep very quiet at times like this. It takes me a while to sort out my opinions and put them in the right sort of order to say out loud.
Jon's got Bell's Palsy. He's conducting NBS rehearsals with a half paralysed face. Must be very frustrating for him. He can't pronounce any words that involve closed lip syllables, and has to manually blink his eye. All very strange. He had demanded that us section leaders meet 30 mins before today's rehearsal, to finalise bowings etc. We were there (sort of) and the gates were locked, padlocked and chained. It was only a passing teacher who was going in to do some work (on a Sunday?) who saved the day. Don't quite know what happened to the security chaps who were meant to let us in.
Rachel's daughter, Molly, has a fab multicoloured cassette player, and is very much into singing and dancing along to it. Why is it that the speech of 2 & a half / 3 (I forget) year olds is so endearing. Molly is v chatty - just like her mother, and was very busy making me all sorts of things from her Fisher Price kitchen.
All my new kids at Music Centre came back on Saturday. Glad I hadn't frightened them off too much. It's tricky though, when the one cellist there has only been learning for a term. Parts need to be simplified even more than easy cello parts usually are, and every note has to be explained. Still - her rhythm's good, so I'm sure she'll cope somehow or other. At least she'll finish at the same time as the rest. Olivia's gone straight into the seconds. She's played 'German Dance' before. They were going to do it in a concert apparently, but they couldn't 'cos the seconds were rubbish'.
I've got in a right pickle with this page haven't I? I've made a bodge job of trying to add some links, and now I can't seem to get rid of the bodgeness. Ah well...