Cripes Bryn! Far too energetic for a nice convent girl Think I'll just stay with lifting the occasional canape

Good evening everyone.

I am back from Cavan and trying to find out what I missed during last four days.

Were there any interesting programs on the radio that you think I should listen to on listen again.

I will appreciate your suggestions.

It is difficult to write about Cavan.
I got an impression that for many centuries people were so poor that there was not much of high culture. People just tried to survive and many had only one option in life - to go to america.

I was shown beautiful lakes that was created by a river. There were people fishing and the water looked clean.

There is a house (manor house) where Lady Maxwell probably lived. She was a lady that is in the title of O'Carolan air.

There are remains of Abbey, town hall. The only building I liked was a new Library building.
The town is remarkable because there are no architectural sturctures of any interest.

Lady Maxwell house is incorporated into hotel. It is much smaller than I thought landed people would have.



The grounds are good for playing golf.

My friend's family educated all their children. They are cultured people. My friend is a musician, his brother is a painter. I love the old generation of Irish people, I am beginning to understand the history.
I came with Irish tiger, but Irish tiger is paper thin, before that there are centuries of desperation and poverty.

Welcome back t-p,

You might enjoy today's Discovering Music which featured Gaspard de la Nuit, and a brilliant moment I thought in which Stephen Johnson was talking about Ravel's music more generally and highlighted how often a crescendo would lead to an unravelling (doh!) of the self-distancing veil from behind which much of his music seems to come. The fabric of the music gets torn apart and the results are thrilling.
(One of the most exciting examples of this happening I think, is at the end of La Valse, where everything goes sensationally out-of-control in a sea of outrageous orchestration. Fantastic!)

Also, the Early Music Show (which I only heard a very small part of) featured music by Perotin which I think was introduced as one of the earliest examples of four-part writing.. (I think I remembered that right).

Well put yerself, guvnor! (The "self-distancing" I borrowed from SJ, as I thought too it perfectly expressed a quality often present in the music.)

But another example cited in the programmes was Bolero, where by the end any sense of propriety has been pretty much trashed. And in Scarbo too, the tension is constantly threatening to tear it all apart isn't it?

(I'm a bit scared though talking like this in the Waffle thread. Aren't we going to get screamed at?)

Now I'm really frightened!

I scream for waffles and Ice Cream.