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As I walked past one of the rooms I saw a violinist playing for one of the patients. Apparently they were friends. Word got out and soon staff were lingering outside the room trying not to look as if they were looking, if you get my drift. A lovely moment.
I forget if I told this one at tOP before... I was once on a train back from Brussels to Köln; I'd played a concert there and booked my own train back the next day so I could hang around for a bit instead of heading back with the group in the morning. (Also so I could buy a new mouthpiece - it's hard to find much of a selection in Germany. Also because I'd just been dumped and didn't really want to go back home anyway.) I took a slower train because the Thalys was a bit pricey. Somewhere along the way between Brussels and Liège an old chap took out his violin and started playing some wistful gypsyish tunes (with only three strings and three and a half fingers, about a tone and a quarter high...). All pretty straightforward but I loved it; the other travellers went on doing their usual stuff, mostly either pretending he wasn't there or getting mildly annoyed. After a while he went out into the corridor to stare out the window so I went out to say thanks. He saw the clarinets on my back and insisted we play something so we tootled away until we arrived in Liège. Not the public debut for my new mouthpiece I'd expected.  |
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Ollie, that sounds like the cue for a new piece from Kagel!
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'These acts of keeping politics out of music, however, do not prevent musicology from being a political act . . .they assure that every apolitical act assumes a greater political immediacy' - Philip Bohlman, 'Musicology as a Political Act'
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« Reply #32 on: 21:46:20, 10-09-2007 » |
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Re George Garnett's post no4 about Accordion Man -  It is my Welsh aunt and uncle's dear old friend! Lovely coincidences like this make me smile.  |
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« Reply #33 on: 22:03:25, 10-09-2007 » |
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I've probably posted about this one before, too. I was waiting in the foyer/reception area of a large hospital a few years ago, and an oldish man who was collecting for some charity was next to me. He told me a bit about his life in India when he was younger. Somehow we started talking about music, and he sang quite a long, very beautiful song in Hindi. It was a magical experience in an unlikely place.
MabelJane, on the subject of funny things that children say, did you see Outnumbered on television recently, a sort of comedy about family life? The children in it weren't scripted but improvising, and the little girl (about 5), especially, came out with some wonderful things, like "Could I have a nit as a pet? They're quite small", and (on being told that everything was made of atoms) "Are shadows made of atoms...are atoms made of atoms?"
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« Reply #34 on: 10:45:16, 18-09-2007 » |
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This may not be much in the scheme of things but there was a young woman in front of me in the queue at the supermarket just now for whom getting and paying for her own things (under the watchful eye of her mother or carer from a discreet distance) was obviously a major and complex ordeal. She did it though! I so admired her for that. And her ecstatic smile of achievement made me happy too.
(And not a little ashamed of the things I have avoided, and continue to avoid, as 'too difficult'.)
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« Reply #35 on: 10:55:26, 18-09-2007 » |
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"Ah what relief it would be if the world were to have less content."
Actually, GG, I've been meaning to speak to you about this for some while. Are you sure? After all, just a land of lost content rendered Housman upset enough to pour out reams of verses, but the world?
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« Reply #36 on: 10:58:11, 18-09-2007 » |
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« Reply #37 on: 11:01:50, 18-09-2007 » |
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martle, the expression on that face definitely says "(Sigh) Look at the things I have to do to keep you amused".
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You don't have a dog as well, do you Martle?  I've had complaints before about my bikini line, Ron. (Or is it strap line? I can never remember which is which.) I think it may be time for a change. |
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« Reply #39 on: 12:18:04, 18-09-2007 » |
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I've been smiling all week about TAKING MARK PADMORE OUT FOR A PINT ON FRIDAY EVENING !!!
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« Reply #40 on: 12:26:06, 18-09-2007 » |
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I've had complaints before about my bikini line, Ron. (Or is it strap line? I can never remember which is which.) I think it may be time for a change.
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« Reply #41 on: 12:47:43, 18-09-2007 » |
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How odd. I'd read yours as being CONtent and Housman's as being conTENT...
Indeed so, rozzers (Could I remind you that we had a clear understanding that I would let you take that picture for your personal recreational use ONLY.) |
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How odd. I'd read yours as being CONtent and Housman's as being conTENT... Indeed so, rozzers (Could I remind you that we had a clear understanding that I would let you take that picture for your personal use ONLY.) I thought it was the other one that was our little secret... |
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« Reply #43 on: 13:33:51, 18-09-2007 » |
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