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Viola in Vilnius: July 2011
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After Botswana - off to New York! Thursday, July 07, 2011. Ballet, ballet, ballet. And then, apart from the performance, who was the Lady in the Black Hat who sat in the director's box in the second half? Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). View my complete profile. Ballet, ballet, ballet. Dial 'M' for Musicology. Enthusiastic blog about violin teaching and playing. Klariscope - a French Music Blog (en francais). Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre. Oboe Insight - an oboist speaks.
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Viola in Vilnius: May 2011
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After Botswana - off to New York! Monday, May 16, 2011. A very rare symphony concert! Emotionally I would not rush to hear it again, but intellectually it would be interesting to hear it a few more times to get more of a grip of it. This was followed by more Bach, and Stravinsky's wind symphony. Quite a rollercoaster of pieces! NY Times reviews of the last two concerts here. Labels: music New York. Saturday, May 14, 2011. She could do an evening of operatic arias. As in all Spring for Music concerts, the...
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Viola in Vilnius: May 2010
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After Botswana - off to New York! Sunday, May 23, 2010. Orhan Pamuk's new book of this title is brilliant! I've had some moments with his books, finding one or two of them quite putdownable - but this one is amazing. Part of the book describes Istanbul; it also seems to be a love-story of Istanbul (Pamuk has recently written a number of books on his home city). I wondered if he had written the book after he left the city following the Armenian journalist Hrant Dink's assassination (in early 2007? Total '...
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Viola in Vilnius: February 2011
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After Botswana - off to New York! Saturday, February 19, 2011. New York, New York! I'm going to move to New York soon, for a job. Unbelievable - I can't wait! Have worked out how much I will earn - it's a bit more, partly pay rise, partly cost-of-living adjustment, but oy vey, the costs of NY! Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). View my complete profile. New York, New York! Dial 'M' for Musicology. Enthusiastic blog about violin teaching and playing. Klariscope - a French Music Blog (en francais).
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Viola in Vilnius: A very rare symphony concert!
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After Botswana - off to New York! Monday, May 16, 2011. A very rare symphony concert! Emotionally I would not rush to hear it again, but intellectually it would be interesting to hear it a few more times to get more of a grip of it. This was followed by more Bach, and Stravinsky's wind symphony. Quite a rollercoaster of pieces! NY Times reviews of the last two concerts here. Labels: music New York. In London I saw people at concerts with scores all the time! Especially anything involving serialism. As to...
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Viola in Vilnius: Delta Airlines vs Tajik Airlines
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After Botswana - off to New York! Wednesday, May 09, 2012. Delta Airlines vs Tajik Airlines. Version:1.0 StartHTML:0000000167 EndHTML:0000003229 StartFragment:0000000454 EndFragment:0000003213. Just flying from New York to Dakar, Senegal, on Delta Airlines. Jeeez, what an airline! Could not believe the Terminal 3 in JFK, which is only just above Shcheremetova in Moscow in terms of ambience (ha, ambience! It's always good to know which airlines to push nearer the bottom of the 'favourites' list. The sound...
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Viola in Vilnius: Thou are 'Wall'!
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After Botswana - off to New York! Monday, August 08, 2011. The staging was rather interesting (the programme does not make clear who was the producer - was it Ivan Fischer himself? As the audience trundled in, Ivan Fischer, the conductor was already sitting on his chair, and a number of statues (the choir, wearing grey clothes and with all-over make-up) inhabited the very sparse stage, consisting of a pair of podiums (podia? Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). View my complete profile. The Rest is Noise ...
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Viola in Vilnius: February 2010
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After Botswana - off to New York! Saturday, February 27, 2010. Going to bed Botswana style. Sooo, in Europe I would be winding down slowly, taking a shower, wrapping up warm and all those things and gently subside into bed. Or catching him and throwing him out. So I use the usual trick, the glass, the OU study calendar (a sheet of paper), trap him, rush out on the balcony, carefully closing the balcony door behind me but not so much that I will be locked out, and throw him off the balcony. Then there was...
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Viola in Vilnius: December 2009
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After Botswana - off to New York! Thursday, December 31, 2009. Music - at last! After a five-month break from orchestral music I am now getting my fill again! Both pieces were nice; I did not know the Mozart (a first? And played with plenty of verve and energy (which has not always been the case in this orchestra). It seems that the pulse may begin to beat again.It was lovely seeing a few friends, too! The concert started with Ysaye's 'Evening Harmonies' for string quartet and string orchestra; bit of a ...
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Viola in Vilnius: March 2010
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After Botswana - off to New York! Wednesday, March 31, 2010. Tis getting cooler in Gaborone. after spending the summer on my balcony, wearing little more than (boxer) shorts, soon I'll have to throw on a Tshirt at night. Shocking! Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). View my complete profile. Dial 'M' for Musicology. Enthusiastic blog about violin teaching and playing. Klariscope - a French Music Blog (en francais). Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre. Oboe Insight - an oboist speaks.
