Stormy Weather

[gurnemanz]

I always thought I was born in the Spring. Itappears to have been in mid Winter. Grrr from me too.

.. played Spring Sonata driving through some pleasant bits of North Wilts yesterday - enough to cheer anyone up.

[salymap]

.. played Spring Sonata driving through some pleasant bits of North Wilts yesterday - enough to cheer anyone up.

Yes, that's a good idea. Music with Spring in the title- and there's quite a lot gurnemanz.

[Serial_Apologist]

Yes, that's a good idea. Music with Spring in the title- and there's quite a lot gurnemanz.

This orchestral piece from 1927, by one of my favourite English composers, expresses for me better than any other the elation spring can bring, hey ding-a-ding-ding!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0swDbZlErY

[gurnemanz]

This orchestral piece from 1927, by one of my favourite English composers, expresses for me better than any other the elation spring can bring, hey ding-a-ding-ding!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0swDbZlErY

I got this box last year. Recommended. Nearly everything was new to me. "Enter Spring" is the first item on CD1.

[mangerton]

Still not particularly warm here (11°C) but a lovely sunny day. There are even at last a few daffodils trying bravely to flower.

I'm listening to Handel's Organ Concerti (Amsterdam Baroque Orch, Koopman) which I suppose is not particularly springlike, but sounds suitably full of joie de vivre, to my ears anyway.

[Serial_Apologist]

I got this box last year. Recommended. Nearly everything was new to me. "Enter Spring" is the first item on CD1.

Good on Hickox, provided, that is, he takes "Enter Spring" at Britten's 1967 pace, as represented on my link. Most other conductors pace the work more slowly, therby actually killing its spirit entirely!

[marthe]

Yesterday's weather was a tease and we're now back to cool and dull with drizzly intervals. Not sure if we'll get any "bright intervals" as they used to say on the Radio 4 weather forecasts back in the 70s. Do the BBC weather forecasters still describe the weather as being "rainy with bright intervals"? S_A, do you know something we don't know about upcoming New England weather? Spring music always brings to mind that oldy but goody, "Appalachian Spring."

saly, good to see your posts! Hope you're feeling better.

[Serial_Apologist]

Yesterday's weather was a tease and we're now back to cool and dull with drizzly intervals. Not sure if we'll get any "bright intervals" as they used to say on the Radio 4 weather forecasts back in the 70s. Do the BBC weather forecasters still describe the weather as being "rainy with bright intervals"? S_A, do you know something we don't know about upcoming New England weather? Spring music always brings to mind that oldy but goody, "Appalachian Spring."

saly, good to see your posts! Hope you're feeling better.

Ah well, marthe, these days we often get "organised rain" too, as opposed, presumably, to "disorganised rain". We still have "bright intervals" as in "bright, rather than sunny": an indication of sunshine filtered through high cloud, rather than unobstructed - to which "sunny" and "sunny intervals" would apply - though sometimes the term "hazy sunshine" is even more confusingly used!

Your and our weather would seem to more-or-less coincide at around this time of year: similar temperatures, similar rainfall, before your temperatures really take off, usually in June if I'm correct.

[marthe]

S_A, correct about the June heat wave. May is often quite chilly, at least here in Newport. The ocean temps are still on the cool side until early July which tends to moderate the air temps a bit. My grandmother always warned us that the water was too cold for swimming until the 4th of July! Once the water warms up , it stays warm into September when we have the best weather of the year. June is usually warm, sometimes hot. July and August (dog days) are plagued by the HHH (hazy, hot, and humid) conditions that can be unpleasant. I think of my poor mother-in-law on her only visit to the US during a very hot summer in the late 1980s. She came dressed to the nines and wouldn't dream of wearing typical Newport summer wear (shorts, gasp) but insisted on wearing a dress and tights, even to the beach!

[salymap]

It's very cold outside - about 3 centigrade which is, I think, about 36 in old money. Lovely in the kitchen, think I shall stay indoors and see if it warms up later. It affects my throat atm but hope nasal spray from the doc will help to clear it.

Hope gamba is okay - wrong thread I know. Years ago I remember snow when climbing the Malverns with friends at Easter. Can't remember if Easter was early or not but it caught us by surprise. Brrrr.

[gurnemanz]

I was surprised to wake up and find the central heating churning it out. I was planning to plant some potatoes today but I think the soil might still be too cold.

[eighthobstruction]

First ducklings of the year here....20 number....Golden morning....

[BBMmk2]

Yes, that's a good idea. Music with Spring in the title- and there's quite a lot gurnemanz.

Rather a good theme there salymmap, yes indeed!!

Lovley day here today. Still a bit of a nip in the air butr most likely become warmer!!!

[amateur51]

A clear blue sky here, with bright sunshine and some lovely Spring warmth now that the cool breeze has died down.

[BBMmk2]

Im rather cold though, maybe as I had a wretched asthma attack last night!