Teaser Tuesday - 16th April

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It was going to be Arabic. Then, he had to make a living, so, computer science

from Lessons by Ian McEwan, not an easy read dealing with abuse in the context of music lessons. But a study of Britain in the years from WWII to the present.

Slovenia

We've been away a few times since the last record of a trip here. Let me attempt to catch up by starting with the most recent! Last summer we had a walking holiday in Slovenia - the album for the visit is here,

I hope accounts of the walks will soon follow! Why doesn't flick show the album photo on the link rather than the first photo?!

Teaser Tuesday - 9th April

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He would beg. He opened his mouth to say 'Please' - at which the young man tore off a chicken leg and was in the act of handing it across when the girl shouting 'No! No! No!', slapped him back, and went on peeling an orange.

At least a third read of Bruce Chatwin's Utz! A short novel on the joys of collecting, we're in the midst of decluttering preparatory, I hope, a move, so an interesting choice. I've previously blogged about the book here, and a tuesday teaser too!

Newcastle under Lyme Festival

Earlier in the month I participated in 3 classes at the Newscastle festival- playing nocturnes by Frederic Chopin (F minor) and Nancy Litten and Franz Schubert's Hungarian Melody. An interesting afternoon - mainly teenagers competing, but it's always useful for playing experience (mine and theirs!). Here's Nancy Litten playing her nocturne - a certain influence of that Chopin Nocturne(!) I didn't dress up for my performance!..

I've been playing regularly at the Alberti piano group - which now has meetings on line and in person.

Here's my latest performance from the online meeting. Arnold Bax's Nereid - a watery tone picture very gentle with a few ripples (a nereid was a (one of many!) daughter of poseidon). I'll be playing the Schubert again at the Alderley festival in May.

Teaser Tuesday - 19th March

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In the Faustian seriousness of the B minor Sonata there is no room for ambiguities. One has to take Liszt seriously in order to play him well.

Alfred Brendel 'Music, Sense and Nonsense' And I've just got rid - clearing music I'm never going to seriously attempt - of my score of the Liszt B minor! A difficul read - at least at first! Skip though to the 'Music Classical Music be entirely serious' essay and that got me going - and interested. Brendel on music, lots of fascinating information.

Teaser Tuesday!

Oh does my login here still work?! Maybe (maybe??!!) I still have things to post and catchup, but starting gently with this Teaser tuesday's now hosted here.

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They'd both kept up, however, their veneer of wry humour - unlike Colette prowling angily in her pink dress, which had a ribbon under her bust just like her mother's, except that Colette's bust was more cumbersome. She'd picked at a bowl of stuffed olives until they were all gone.

from Tessa Hadley's Free Love. I've not read any of her books before, this was published in 2022. With its tangled relationships, and its era, I found it reminiscent of Iris Murdoch's Severed Head.

Mutterings - Oct 17

This week's free word associations from Unconscious mutterings are:

1. Prove :: Theorem
2. Update :: Security
3. Animal :: Puppet (or even Muppet!)
4. Chocolate :: Cooking
5. Illness :: Serious
6. Upright :: Piano
7. Crucial ::
8. Baked :: Beans
9. Hoops :: Hula
10. Posture :: Seated

Teaser Tuesday - Oct 5

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...by a former Pope in his place; or John XII who was consecrated at the age of seventeen and during whose reign, according to Gibbon, 'we learn with some surprise that the Lateran Palace was turned into a school for prostitution; and that his rapes of virgins and widows had deterred the female pilgrims from visiting the tomb of St Peter, lest, in the devout act, they should be violated by his successor.' Phew - that's only one sentence from John Julius Norwich The History of Venice - one of the racier, more unpleasant bits of Italian history!

Mutterings - Oct 5

This week's free word associations from Unconscious mutterings are:

1. Trails :: Vapour
2. Permanently :: Exclusion
3. Incident :: Close
4. Concur :: Shake (on it!)
5. Shocked :: Expression
6. Money :: Income
7. Horse :: Mouth
8. Church :: People
9. British :: Identity (whatever that is!)
10. Scandal :: Profumo