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Thanks Anton, I did enjoy Ma Vlast. I've two good complete recordings but thought the BBCSO did very well in an exhausting to play work. I've always loved it though. Did you see the Halle on TV? They had a woman tympanist years ago and seem to have kept up the tradition. Didn't think their playing was up to the Barbirolli years though, sadly.
Rain 'promised' for 7pm, to keep on topic, not that anyone does.
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Originally posted by Mahlerei View PostMy nephew has emailed from Boston, where it's a blistering 36 degrees. Ouch.
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Originally posted by salymap View PostThanks Anton, I did enjoy Ma Vlast. I've two good complete recordings but thought the BBCSO did very well in an exhausting to play work. I've always loved it though. Did you see the Halle on TV? They had a woman tympanist years ago and seem to have kept up the tradition. Didn't think their playing was up to the Barbirolli years though, sadly.
Rain 'promised' for 7pm, to keep on topic, not that anyone does.
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Morning marthe [or whatever it is to you]
I have happy memories of Belgium and Belgian friends. Many families escaped the Nazis from the Ostende area and finished up in Petts Wood, Kent near me. At about 10 years old I stayed with an aunt in Petts Wood
and met many members of the Hagers family from Ostende who were billeted nearby. There was a very good artist, a musician and a girl of my age amongst them. To avoid boring you, we met up after the war, I visiting them and vice versa. They took me to Bruges and Brussels, I took Helene to London. She died in her 50s and I have lost touch but shall never forget my first taste of 'real' coffee, Jacques' powerful cigars at breakfast time and their kindness to the 'English Miss' as her mother called me.
I forgot to say that in 1951 Helene and I visited the Belgian butcher in Old Compton Street,london, who was one of the people who rescued the family when the Nazis came.
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Morning (or afternoon for you) saly! What an interesting story about your Belgian friends. my grandfather, who had many English friends, always said that without England, there would not have been Belgium. He was speaking in terms of history and politics but there have been many affinities between the two countries. I'm just now reading Charlotte Bronte's Villette, a novel based on her experience as a teacher in Brussels. My grandmother actually had a an English governess who was a friend of Edith Cavell. Laura Tuxford (my grandmother's governess) and Edith Cavell were fellow governesses in Brussels during the 1890s. During WW II, some of my father's cousins joined the RAF after King Leopold III capitulated to the Germans.
Weather is extremely hot here. 106 F at the airport in Providence, RI; 109 F at Logan Airport in Boston; 115 F at Philadelphia airport. These are the "feel-like" temps. The actual temps were in the high 90s. Too hot for anything but off to work I go nonetheless! Even our famous sea breeze is just a hot wind right now.
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Spent Easter in Bruges a few years ago anD it's a magical city. From our hotel room in the eaves we could open our window, look across the tiled roofs and hear the church bells ring. A very compact place as well, which makes exploration easy. They also have a very modern concert hall, which I had a look at one morning. No music though.Last edited by Guest; 23-07-11, 15:03.
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Originally posted by Mahlerei View PostSpent Easter in Bruges a few years ago anD it's a magical city. From our hotel room in the eaves we could open our window, look across the tiled roofs and hear the church bells ring. A very comPact place as well, which makes exploration easy. They also have a very modern concert hall, which I had a look at one morning. No music though.
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Just a couple of Degrees C up on yesterday - which was more like early October than July! I have me doubts as to London temps reaching 24 C today; it would be nice, though: two friends of mine are perfforming at a local pub with a front courtyard this afternoon - one a singer, the other a very good keyboards player; they open the big windows and project the sound outside; warm days make it great to sit outside with an after lunch brandy and while away the vibes.
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