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Well done to Everyone!

I thoroughly enjoyed the Concert and it was brilliant. It was great to meet up again....old faces and some new faces. Nat and I met up for the first time despite having chatted on msn for a couple of years now.

Must apologise to Hillyb about the "mess up". We had run through it a couple of times and it had gone swimmingly well...so well in fact,we had some fun playing through other pieces in the book. But our timing wasn't together in performance for some reason.

We have exchanged phone numbers and hope to get together soon for a jam. I might even have a new pupil for HillyB.

Sam is a lovely gentleman and it was a honour for me to accompany him....I really appreciated his comment about Menuhin being 20 bars into a piece that they had performed for years,and it happened to them too.

I thought everyone performed wonderfully.

Thankyou All.

Thanks Semele, great to see you again too. I'll pass your comments on to Sam, I think he semed to fit in very well, just need to convince him to join the forum now (if the AB would accept new registrations).

There have been some over the last few days...

Just got home and many thanks to everyone for a fantasitic day!

Had a nice night with my sister and one of my neices - we went to an indian restaurtant in Delph, which is a fantastic little spot.

Journey back to my house was prolonged by descision to go to the local pub en route home, thought a quick couple of pints might be in order, but for some bizarre reason all the local taxis were booked solid so ended up satying longer before finally getting a lift home.

A couple of photos - here's one of the performers



and here's one of Macx and Fiona



Really nice to see everyone, and it was a wondeful day. Fabulously impressed by the playing!

Will post some more photos tomorrow!!

Great pics

Great photos Stumac. Glad you got home safely.

Looking forward to seeing more pics. My camera was not working :cries:

I recognise most faces but could anyone give me a who's who?

AnotherPianist, Saxlover, Stumac, Maxx, YetAnotherPianist, Semele, Fiona, Jean, Katyjay, Sbhoa, Janexxx, HillyB, Sam, Janet.

Well, I might give you a who's whom, would that do?

Left to right: AP, Nat, StuMac, Maxine, YAP, Semele, Fiona, Jean (behind Fiona), katyjay (right at the back peering over), sbhoa, janexxx, hillyb, Sam (Jane's friend), Janet Webb

Great pics Stu ! Glad you got home safely.

Great day had by all. Brilliant performances.

Nice to see everyone again !

It's hard enough these days to get on my PC after work, 3 kids, music practice, housework, husband......
Need I go on ?

Fee

YAP......wash your mouth out with soap and water

The verb "to be" is intrasitive and so does not take an object, let alone an indirect one!

"Who is who" is correct as who is always refering to the subject of the verb.

But "Who (subject) gave it (direct object) to whom (indirect object)"

Interesting. I was using the metric of substituting 'he' and 'him' in, and 'he's him' seemed quite sensible. Thanks for pointing that out .

"He's him" is an intesting one - you are right "he is he" doesn't sount right!

To me "it is I" sounds OK but a bit pretentious whereas "it is me" sounds OK.

But ..."he gave it to me" and definately not "he gave it to I", which suggests that "it is me" must technically be wrong!


Anyway nice to meet you again, Very impressed by the formal attire!

That happened to me in Leicester *hug*

Heh, learn something every day, eh?

Anyone remember "Allo, allo"?

"It is I, Leclair!"

edit - my mistake... "It is I, Leclerc"

Thank you both. Good timing there!


Thanks for that Stu, why not start a 'Pedant of the pedants' club.

There's the Guild of Pedantshere

I'd just like to say thanks to everyone for a really enjoyable day. Everyone was really supportive. It was nice to meet you all.

Janet

Hehe, I'm amused the concert thread has turned into a linguistics one... yay!

However, at the risk of being lynched I'll return to topic for a moment - Thank you to everyone who signed the card for me on Saturday, I got it this morning and it was really lovely! Thank you so much

Katyjay thought I went overboard on the bananas this year.......

Thanks .

Resplendent in a jaunty beret?

I'll see what I can do in a couple of weeks' time .

Now that sounds like a profile pic in the making

Just to let everyone know that there is an article about the concert on the following sites Amateur Musician and The Music Corner.

If anyone has a good photo I can use for the first one please will you email it to me, don't want to be boring using same one twice.

Am I completely missing it ?

Can anyone direct me to the articles ?

Fiona, click on the underlined words in sbhoa's post - they are links

Thank you SArah-flute !

I managed to get it this time. Wasn't there when I first looked
My computer seems to be having a few problems. Probably can't stand the heat like the rest of us !

Fee

Can't say I blame it

Only just caught up with this thread - sounds like a good time was had by all! Like the pictures.

I got to the Web sites but couldn't find the articles. Help!

Follow the links for 'News Items' on the first one and 'Local Music in Tameside' for the second.

Not very good but here is the photo that the local paper took.




If anyone wants to know where to get a copy pm me for the link and photo reference.
(I didn't think that people would want anyone who drops in to have access to this).

That's a nice photo!

Here's a picture of the Buffet at Stalybridge Station. It really is an amazing little place and I recommend it to all participants of adult learners concerts!

I had a couple of hours to change trains en route home from Chethams, so waited there instead of Manchester. It's developing quite a link with music in my miind.

Like the picture - looks like you all had fun!

Thought I'd bring this back up so folk can see Stalybridge station buffet bar!!

Thank you. Looks goooood!