Sounds super - hope you enjoy it.

Whats made me happy today? Firstly, it was our 34th wedding anniversary Secondly, we've been to the most lovely concert in a local church: Bach Mass in G minor and lots of Telemann, including the German Magnificat, and the concerto for recorder and bassoon. The latter was played by a 14 year old on recorder and a 15 year old bassoonist, and they were fantastic! It's been a really happy day.

It was last evening, we (4 part a capella group) sang at a joint concert with a brass quintet. Introduced some new songs which went down very well, I performed "Silent Worship" as a solo, and the finale was "Sing a Song of Sixpence" with the brass ensemble accompanying. The audience loved it and wanted it again!

Actually making progress in maths today, and not wanting to throw my books/calculator/desk out the window in frustration (I've been posting freqeuntly in the arghhhh thread about the same topic). Nice to finally feel that my hard work is getting me somewhere, given the exam is on Friday...

"Yippee!!"

I found out that I will very likely be able to move to my flat on Sunday, that there will be electricity there and that means I CAN PLAY MY PIANO!!

ITS MY BIRTHDAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (and im not at hospital at all this week!!!!!)

My VERY motley crew of Y6s singing Rutter's 'A Clare Benediction' absolutely BEAUTIFULLY in Rochester Cathedral today!

And yesterday (too tired to post last night) - my gorgeous, GORGEOUS Monday night group doing their Kodály Intermediate Exam (from 6pm-10.30pm!) and all doing really well.

One very happy Cyrilla Bunny

Happy birthday

- Rochester Cathedral is a glorious place to perform, glad the performance and the exams went well. Any forum people in your Monday night group?

Yes - JudithJ!

Well done JudithJ!

Going in my garden early this morning and hearing the most out of tune violin sound!!! 3 totally out of tune notes being repeated over and over again!!
I couldn't make out which house it was coming from but it really brought a smile to my face. It's nice to know that some neighbours are also into music and learning to play an instrument!!

Yes, I know...I really need to develop my aural skills.
The thing is, violin would help with noticing which notes are wrong, and whether they are sharp or flat, and correcting them. Trumpet would probably help with pitching notes in the first place - getting the right harmonic, whereas it's less obvious if the notes are slightly wrong. I'm not that good at singing and I honestly don't know whether I have the problem with pitching notes or knowing if they're right or wrong.

Perhaps I should take singing lessons

I have always wanted to be able to play folk fiddle, but I've also wanted to learn trumpet for quite a while now.

Sounds like you could do with one of those 'one-man-band' get-ups - big drum on the back, harmonica at the front ...

The fact that on my Facebook profile, there was a bar on the side that said "Many who like Cheryl Cole also like Wispa." I'm presuming they meant the chocolate bars, but I can't help but wonder if they meant Cheryl Cole should whisper....

Oh - I'll be up there on Monday, but far too late to hear your motley crew (perhaps the hint of an echo of a last, lingering note...... )

Last year I accessed the Blackwell's Bookshop website and ordered copies of '371 Harmonized Chorales and 69 Chorale Melodies' together with a book 'Bach Chorale Harmonization and Instrumental Counterpoint'.

On the invoice email they sent was a section entitled Related Items. What was the entry?




Country Music Hall of Fame, Volume 8!

I got that, but with Buttons - I think there is correlation between her and chocolate....

12 year old kids can be so cruel... School induction days and a mate got told by a primary pupil that "you only think you are cool because you dont shave". and then followed by "my uncle had his first beard when he was 14" made my day partly cos im jealous of people that can grow decent beards

Also the genius in france song cheered me up. Youtube it if you dont know what i mean

Perhaps you should take some Kodály lessons...




Awwww.....you never know!!!

Just happened to be listening to Radio 3 now in the wee small hours and Helmut Rilling's choir has just this minute launched into Bach's Magnificat, BWV 243!

YIPPEE!!

Nice to have some company on the Forum... usually on my own at this time of night (nearly 8pm so it must be an indecent hour over there...).

Better get home to some oboe practice!

It's five to three in the morning and the choir I have on in the background has just begun Sicut locutus est.

What pieces have you in mind to practice? - I have accompanied a few oboe works - most notably the Schumann Romances.

I tried getting Radio 3 live but the internet is against me...

As for practice - got it in one! The first Romance is on my exam menu for Tuesday! So, I'd better run...

Night night!

Well maybe not happy but it got me smiling !
I found an old video of Victor Borge stuff messing around on a piano, and I used to roar with laughter when he was on TV in the 60's. Anyone else remember him ?

Yes indeed. His musical punctuation was one of his trademark acts - no doubt on YouTube somewhere, for those who never heard it. Didn't he also play in the style of different composers? - similar to Joseph Cooper, but Danish!

Yeah there must be some clips on YouTube, but I have to shut down now. Wont be on line till Monday probably

Had a surprise flying visit from the owner of the company this afternoon - he said the site looked great and was really impressed with the plants in the greenhouses.

Well I don't remember, but I do own a CD. I remember being very amused at The Blue Serenade Waltz...

Oh my, just looked on Amazon, there are DVDs

Playing for the most beautiful wedding...

I suppose that really it shouldn't have made me happy, on a couple of counts, but I spied a note in a chord of my Debussy Sarabande that I have been leaving out and that my teacher has failed to spot so far!

He's usually exasperatingly spectacularly accurate in hearing either wrong notes, added notes or missing ones, that I suspect he has been holding it back for such a time as I should seem complacent!

I'm sure there is - and I'm equally sure it has been posted and chortled over on the forums at some date in the past!

here ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lF4qii8S3gw...feature=related

me - Stanford and Howells : )

'Charlie & Herbie Ride Again!'

Finallllllly! The ABRSM has finally let me back in again... ! The internet was claiming to have lost connection...

After 17 years of "choral drought" ... finally discovered a really decent little choir here. We were treated some Rutter... shame the audience was so tiny.

Definitely something wrong with the website...that's not the first time some people have been locked out...

Excellent clarinet lesson Only two weeks to go now!

Watched 'karate kid' with my cousins

Suddenly the double stops in the Accolay coming together...it sounds like a piece of music now and not some hideous technical exercise that included modern techinques such as scratchy sounds, swearing (only at the last page!), and some very squashed chords!

Rehearsing Mozart's Laudamus Te with two Y7 girls today - they'd barely be taller than me, if I were to stack one on top of the other, but their voices .....! Timid they are not!

Apparently they're going to perform this on the school's Music Tour to Italy this summer. If they also manage to get a good acoustic, they'll bring the house down!

Managing to sight read a piece I love about halfway through with no real issues!!! Progress!!!!

Rewarding my efforts with a few pints now.. tata!

Didn't know Mozart wrote a duet Laudamus Te. I know he wrote a pretty tricky solo one for Mrs. Mozart to sing. And I'm seriously impressed if either of your year 7 girls is doing that, given that I worked on it as part of a Fellowship programme.

On the other hand I know Vivaldi wrote a lovely singable duet version.

Thanks katyjay: for 'Mozart' read, 'Vivaldi' - I'm only the piano-player!

Easy mistake to make, Italian baroque or Austrian classical, and only eighty years apart in their composition.....

Of course they're both in F major, which might explain it

Ah, I hoped knew there was a get-out clause reason!

Playing the Preludes and Fugues in C and C minor from Well-Tempered Clavier Book 1 after a couple of weeks of no piano due to moving house. Even though I have to move my bed out of the way to make room for the piano stool.

Having a just generally nice day

My Mum, aged 90, has finally been admitted to a nursing home this morning. The poor lamb has been in hospital since April, but has spent the last three weeks waiting for a place to be found for her so that she could be discharged. She's not fit to go home yet but doesn't need hospital treatment now.

We are really hoping that Mum will start to do more for herself again now she's out of the hospital, rather than just lying in bed all day. In February she was living on her own with carers coming in and managing fine, but following a series of urinary infections she's become more and more sessile in hospital. I just wish I lived nearer so that I could visit more often (she's in a Home near Rotherham).

He certainly did, and I was able to ask identical twins in our church choir to perform it recently. Went very well!

Good to hear, BM.... Spending any time at all in hospital is rarely a pleasure. Peace of mind of a nursing home is good. Hope she is back to her normal self soon!

UTIs are scary, I can't believe the effects they have....

Went shopping this morning - offspring under strict orders that we wouldn't deviate until we had accomplished our mission, then they could go and look at the shoes/guitars/drum kits/etc etc. All went particularly well and there were so few people about. I wonder why?!!!!!