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And is/was your name Jenkins, Ted? Better clarify this before you arrive at Sidcup!  |
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« Reply #6001 on: 13:04:31, 07-10-2008 » |
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I'll be off Stanley - just soon as I can get a decent pair of shoes!
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« Reply #6002 on: 15:07:20, 07-10-2008 » |
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« Reply #6003 on: 15:27:38, 07-10-2008 » |
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Somehow I managed to give that orchestration lecture - indeed I didn't get to the end of my materials in two hours. This is not of course to say that it made any sense. Now I had better go home while my eyes are still open.
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« Reply #6004 on: 15:59:30, 07-10-2008 » |
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Stanley this could go on a long time are we not still in Act 1?
I have just realized Aston could be my entry in the "which character do you see as yourself" thread - sad. Since this is the happy room can I just say one of the very happiest evenings of my life was the first night of an Am-Dram production of Pinter's "Moonlight" which I directed. It went so well I was in tears. Happy days!
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« Reply #6005 on: 16:24:55, 07-10-2008 » |
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Er, no, Ted. Happy Days is Beckett. (And Beckett's Anouilh)  |
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« Reply #6006 on: 17:03:12, 07-10-2008 » |
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Er, no, Ted. Happy Days is Beckett. (And Beckett's Anouilh) Very droll Mr Dough. (I would like to have had a go at HDs) |
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« Reply #6007 on: 17:28:35, 07-10-2008 » |
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Somehow I managed to give that orchestration lecture - indeed I didn't get to the end of my materials in two hours. This is not of course to say that it made any sense. Now I had better go home while my eyes are still open.
That's pretty much how I felt after mine yesterday. Glad to get the first one of the year under the belt though, eh? Teaching is performing, really. So it's exhausting in much the same ways... |
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« Reply #6008 on: 17:36:58, 07-10-2008 » |
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Indeed I quite enjoyed it (though I would have enjoyed it more without the jetlag) because it's all new to me, orchestration I mean - I had to cover the second half of the "historical introduction" (a colleague is doing most of the lectures in this course), from 1900 to 2008 (though by composer rather than strictly chronologically). I had to postpone about the last quarter of my examples until the next session, because I ran out of time, but this session ended rather appropriately with Berio's Rendering. If any of the students can orchestrate Schubert as idiomatically as Berio I shall be very happy, apart of course where everything goes all out of focus and we enter... the Twilight Zone...
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« Reply #6009 on: 19:09:25, 07-10-2008 » |
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Home at last. It's been one hell of a long day!  He's very groggy and was clutching the paper hat in the car that they give you in case you are sick. He hasn't been sick anyway. He has to have the stitches out on Monday via the GP and we have painkillers and loads of other instructions of what to do ...in case of all sorts of emergencies that hopefully won't happen. I'm going to bed at the same time as the little 'un tonight. |
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« Reply #6010 on: 20:17:48, 07-10-2008 » |
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off to see nick about editing his website, tomorrow, and looks like a mega £££ work from home programming deal coming through, mm, can i get mobile broadband in the lake district on a motorhome eh eh eh ?
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« Reply #6011 on: 12:06:59, 08-10-2008 » |
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can i get mobile broadband in the lake district on a motorhome eh eh eh ? Mobile broadband is a bit expensive. Why not just drive your motorhome around and park outside different houses until you find one with an unsecure wireless network? Disclaimer: I would would not seriously advocate such scoundrelous activites. |
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« Reply #6012 on: 20:15:02, 08-10-2008 » |
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Still here, still happy! Not long until the shell show so i'd better do some revising otherwise i'll look foolish!
Been another lovely day in York and work was good too.
It's all good fun (until someone loses an eye...)
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« Reply #6013 on: 22:37:47, 08-10-2008 » |
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Good day today.
History lesson went well, and I'm really feeling like I am actually contributing something valuable to performance classes.
Finished the day off with a couple of pints with my boss, who is becoming a real friend and then came home for a haddock supper.
Have to go in to sort out some arrangements for next week and assorted paper work, but the afternoon has composition pencilled in followed by a choir rehearsal in the evening.
Fab.
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« Reply #6014 on: 22:42:02, 08-10-2008 » |
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hh,  Good to hear you sounding upbeat! I feel I've kicked off the term well, too. There's a class next week that I'm dreading, but only because it'll take a weekend of work to prepare for it properly. But students so far seem committed and appreciative. Fabbo. It could be worse, eh? |
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