Thanks for all the positive greetings from many friends on here. I should have really posted my news on here (a new thread) rather than on the Missing Persons thread.
I won't be talking about conductors at all, as I have called a truce and I now love 'em all. In fact I've had the old musical bit of my brain removed (if it ever existed) - so I hear people saying it probably leaves very little and not enough to get by on. But Bonnie my Lurcher is now my eyes, ears and brain. And she conducts herself beautifully, and sings well in tune, with no wobbly vibrato.
So we are dedicated to walking 6-10 miles a day (she covers considerably more) as this helps us both to fight off old age and the doddery effect of too much time on the couch and armchair. (She has the couch ...)
The only musical (?) comment I will make (and bear in mind I know nothing) is that I feel that maybe the most outstanding fiddler under the age of forty [new generation] is James Ehnes. Just heard his Mendelssohn concerto - but don't take me seriously, as I'm tone deaf. But it seemed to me that it was equally wonderful musically as well as technically, and I turned it on (Radio 3) during the cadenza and had no idea who was performing, but it was such a wonderful sound. (I've seen his Strad close up, but of course the sound comes from him).
That's enough rubbish from me for a while.
I won't be talking about conductors at all, as I have called a truce and I now love 'em all. In fact I've had the old musical bit of my brain removed (if it ever existed) - so I hear people saying it probably leaves very little and not enough to get by on. But Bonnie my Lurcher is now my eyes, ears and brain. And she conducts herself beautifully, and sings well in tune, with no wobbly vibrato.
So we are dedicated to walking 6-10 miles a day (she covers considerably more) as this helps us both to fight off old age and the doddery effect of too much time on the couch and armchair. (She has the couch ...)
The only musical (?) comment I will make (and bear in mind I know nothing) is that I feel that maybe the most outstanding fiddler under the age of forty [new generation] is James Ehnes. Just heard his Mendelssohn concerto - but don't take me seriously, as I'm tone deaf. But it seemed to me that it was equally wonderful musically as well as technically, and I turned it on (Radio 3) during the cadenza and had no idea who was performing, but it was such a wonderful sound. (I've seen his Strad close up, but of course the sound comes from him).
That's enough rubbish from me for a while.
, Ariosto. Welcome back 
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