Oh, how I understand you all. I feel that if the car works, than computer is down, if these are ok, then washing machine is not working. Grumble, grumble, grumble ....
On the other hand after everything is fix I forget it and happy again. Off to the happy room now and change of philosophy: if computer doesn't work, I will go for a walk, or take a nap, or read a book, etc.

My ear is sore.
(It's the ear that they had to sew back on)
It sometimes gets a little burned in the sun but it hasn't been this irritated in years.
A sign that I'm burning the candle at both ends and should go to bed instead of posting here...
Perhaps I should be listening to it.
But my ear is sore.

Not wishing in any way to exonerate BT (after all I spend some of my time working for a rival organisation), I do think it's only fair to point out that broadband is very far from being an exact science, with bewildering strings of variables mutually interdependent, as the H.O.D. took great delight in explaining to me when we had all our problems last year. Just to underline the fact, the PCs here have all disconnected themselves from BB yet again, yet the Mac (upon which, obviously, I'm at work now) is breezing through everything in its normal suave fashion.

You mean Nobody knows de trouble I've seen, t-p?

Exists in two versions, the first of which was first published in William Francis Allen, Charles Pickard Ware, and Lucy McKim Garrison (eds) - Slave Songs of the United States (1867) (Bedford, MA: Applewood Books, 1996), no. 74 (see http://docsouth.unc.edu/church/allen/allen.html ), and is reproduced in Eileen Southern (ed) – Readings in Black American Music (New York and London: Norton, 1983), pp. 170-171.



An altered form was presented in Thomas P. Fenner’s Hampton Collection of 1874, p. 181 (cited in George Pullen Jackson – White and Negro Spirituals: Their Life Span and Kinship (New York: J.J. Augustin, 1943)., p. 161).



Pullen Jackson compares the latter to the white spiritual “Wings of the Morning’ (pp. 160-161), and also says that Fenner changed the original song ‘by what authority we do not know’ (p. 159). It is the latter version that is set by both Tippett (in A Child of Our Time) and Finnissy (in North American Spirituals) and also (I think, it's a while since I last heard it) Bernd Alois Zimmermann in his trumpet concerto of the same name.

Ah right - you're in Sligo! I played there once, a little under eight years ago, in the festival (solo and with my ensemble). Beautiful place. Who is the person in charge now? Very tight-knit world, the Irish contemporary scene - I know the people in Dublin quite well, but not so much the others elsewhere in the country.

(there will be a big Ligeti festival in the autumn in Dublin (dates to be confirmed), where I'll be doing all three books of Études, and there will be performances of both quartets by the Ardittis, and various else (most of his music will be played, I think), hope you might fancy travelling over there for then!)

There is a nice Liszt on listen again. I enjoyed Mephisto Waltz No 1 and Via Crucis - les 14 stations de la croix. I think you like Liszt, Jonathan. I think that unpleasant week should be forgotten as soon as possible.
I don't know why they pay for trivial things. I liked it the was smittims put it that he was payed for insignificant things. I noticed that I can rest much faster if I am thinking about pleasant things.
I am going to a happy room.

You missed MB reunion last evening. People had good time. Even I was send some salty snacks, potatoechips and wine (virtual reality style). We had good life (some life, some via computer).
That Via Crucis is a very impressive piece. Some sections sounded like Frank and some like early Messiaen. Rosylinmuse agreed with me on that. She likes the piece too. Mephisto Wartz is played by Bolet. I like him very much.

Sounds a bit like the local am-dram group that my Mum helps out with piano
(We call them the Jumblies out of earshot)