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Well, she's young yet and the 4am reveille is an acquired bit of wherewithal.
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I'm stuck at home with a throat/ear infection, and am reading next week's Radio Times with more than usual attention. There's an article about music snobbery that's entirely about pop music snobberies, and apparently on Sunday on BBC4 John Eliot Gardiner will "conduct vocals soloists including Mark Padmore", in Bach's St John Passion. I never thought of Mark Padmore as a "vocals soloist", somehow - more a singer.
However (and this should be in the Happy Room as far as I'm concerned), I've also seen the nicest words I've seen for some time - "Olympics Closing Ceremony". Thank goodness for that. I thought it might go on for ever. It's certainly felt like that to me. I didn't feel intelligent enough to read or even listen to music, and I wanted passive entertainment. Believe me, it's very difficult to find anything to watch on television most of the time, and the Olympics took up huge amounts of time on the BBC. I know some people get excited by someone swimming or running a fraction of a second faster than someone else, but it's utterly dull to me.
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Olympics ... utterly dull to me.
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Sorry to hear about the infection, Mary, but at least it explains why you were still having hearing problems even after your ears were syringed. It can really sap your strength, too. How's your balance? Is that affected?
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Hearing and balance still a bit doubtful, Ron, but improving I think, thank you. It was very strange, because I was deaf in my left ear for about two weeks before I felt ill, and neither the doctor nor the nurse who did the syringing picked up an anything. When I had my ears syringed I was quite unaware of any infection. I'm actually rather glad I'm ill - at least it means (I hope!) that my hearing will get better in the end.
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Hope you get better soon Mary.  It's so miserable being under the weather. Hopefully the antibiotics will be specific to the ear infection and you'll be able to hear so much better when it's cleared up. Take probiotics as well to keep a balance. I've recently been the recipient of four courses of antibiotics and a course of steroids - mind you I was walking round with strep/pneumonia for weeks before I was properly diagnosed. It's a wonder I stayed upright. I think I just kept going on adrenaline and will-power. I didn't want anyone to take my child away even for just a short time so I persevered. |
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« Reply #6938 on: 15:28:10, 19-08-2008 » |
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Did'nt Beethoven write a Horn quintet?
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Did'nt Beethoven write a Horn quintet?
He certainly wrote a sonata for horn and piano ... He also did indeed write an early quintet for piano and winds (including horn), for the same instrumentation as the Mozart work in the same key. Thanks for that. time-is-now. |
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« Reply #6940 on: 17:34:43, 19-08-2008 » |
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I also have Brahms Trio op 40 for piano, violin and horn (or viola or cello)
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« Reply #6941 on: 18:35:15, 19-08-2008 » |
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I've been tinkering away at a version of the violin part of Brahms op. 40 for clarinet to go with the cello version of the horn part (which is Brahms's I presume - there are some interesting differences when he plonks the cello on the bass line). We had a crash-through a couple of weeks back. Very promising. But my grumpy old rant is this. I've just flown back from Australia. I had 37kg of hold baggage (24.5kg suitcase, 12.5kg bass clarinet with some scores in the case) and was expecting to pay some excess. What I wasn't expecting was to be hit for every single kilogram of it above the 20kg allowance (already pretty stingy when you're travelling across the planet) - on my previous long-haul trips airlines have either shrugged their shoulders or at least thrown in a couple of free kilos (which is only fair when I've already paid the thick end of €2000 for the ticket). I suggested putting a couple of scores in my carry-on baggage but was told that at 8kg that was already as much as they would let me take on - and that they would weigh the carry-on baggage before boarding, which they didn't. So clearly Emirates have decided that hitting someone for a one-off $816 is worth them losing his custom for life. |
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« Reply #6942 on: 18:40:24, 19-08-2008 » |
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Thank your lucky stars you're not a harpist, Oz. (Or perhaps you were after that long flight.....)
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« Reply #6943 on: 18:47:50, 19-08-2008 » |
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Mary Chambers,
I am so sorry you have a soar infection. Please let us know if it is getting better.
Welcome back to olie.I forgot how to spell you name a short way.
I don't know how people can travel so far away.
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Going to my parents' house this weekend for my mum's birthday celebrations (well she's 65 next weekend, but she'll be working by then and we'll be scattered to the four winds again).
Somehow I've managed to volunteer to organise everyone to bring some food. Including my eldest brother who has abdicated all responsibility ('I could bring some spinach and some horseradish'), my middle brother who never answers the phone and my little sister who doesn't have enough money to feed her own family let alone the rest of us.
If I don't do anything, it'll be one of those classic family situations: 'We threw you the party and we're doing you the honour of showing up, now where's all this food you've cooked for us?'
I'm glad I enjoy cooking... I have a feeling I know what I'll be doing on Friday and Saturday.
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