Classical Music – Sept 20th

Classical Music – Sept 20

Yes we did have some popular piano music, some Liszt and some Chopin plus a brief session of Scott Joplin.

Next time the theme is “Does this count as c;assical music?

To make it easier, people can send me an email with a hyperlink to a Utube entry, I will build a small programme for all the choices. This can be in addition to bringing a CD.

As usual I’ve come away with four new ideas, including Yuja Wang, Floran Mitrea.

Plus Joanna Macgregor and the Brighton Philharmonic Orchestra  launching their Centenary

 

Notes 16 Aug exploration – Beethoven

CM, Notes from 16 Aug exploration – Beethoven

 Everyone brought a CD from Beethoven’s work, which was probably guaranteed to introduce us to some new works.

For me this was Beethoven’s Piano Sonata No.32, his last. Ithink I have [layed N0.26,, but thi was entirely different  and the second variation would have been a real challenge to play. Wonderful.

I had brought along his Violin Sonata No.12. Written during one of his bouts of depression this Minuet would not have thrilled the hearts of young dancers in the prime of youth, may be an aged dowager. However apparently played on an 1820 style grand grand piano with Ralph Holmes playing his Stradivarius to give the piece the authenticity it deserved.

Our next meeting will be on September 20th.

Each to being their favourite Piano piece. 

9 August 2024, Today’s Notes

9 August 2024, Today’s Notes

 

9 Aug, Ideas we discussed

  1. Sow now 

– Cupidon dwarf French Beans,

  – Xmas potatoes

– Possibly Spinach

– Possibly Winter leeks

  1. What vegetable for overwintering
  • Onion sets
  • Garlic
  • Shallots
  • Chard
  • Aguadulce Broad Beans
  • Spinach
  • Selected brassicas
  1. Quadgrow Watering System,
  2. Cliff has already ordered:
  • Marshalls Gardens, Autumn Onion Shakespeare 75, Shallots 15 & Garlic 2, Trio Pack, delivery 1-10 Oct
  • 20 Maris Peer potatoes, for Christmas new potatoes

 

Read your own label

Is it damson or blackcurrant jam?

Raspberry or strawberry?

Yellow Plum or Rhubarb?

With caffeine or is it decaf?

I am actually using the DYMO label printer to do my own labels for my seed trays e.g, beetroot, spinach, Cha Cha squash and lots more.

I produce the label, suing an “ABC” keyboard and press two buttons (one to print it and the other to cut it off)

Now I can re-use all my seed tags… AND

I can read every one.

 

I realised that I didn’t know enough.

What a wonderful and challenging experience

When I started the Classical Music group I realised that I didn’t know enough.

One of our group is a clarinetist so as a courtesy I looked into that.

Then I started thinking about violinists and this has been, and still is, a real joy, finding and listening to six violinists, and finding more Vivaldi and others. Hours of beautiful listening..

Wonderful.

Somethings are getting better

At last the beans are thriving and the tomatoes  look good.

All the spare flowers are also making the allotment look good.

So now we start next year. 

We have ordered the overwintering onions and shallots. We have been given some local heritage strawberries.

Also we are trailing “Strulch” for keeping slugs at bay.

At last, summer has arrived

It’s amazing, it’s wonderful. At last all the work we have putin is worthwhile.

OK, the broad beans have been coming for some time. Now we also have th dwarf french beans, the runner beans and the butter beans all looking goo.

Similarly the Charlotte potatoes are looking though the Jazzy and Orla have not produced large crops, tasty though they are.

Whilst the tomatoes have hardly  started, the cucumbers are prolific.

AND there’s the strawberries, raspberries, blackcurrants.

Possibly a new chapter

in my battle, “winning against AMD”

A merest whim of an idea, could it become a sentence, or even a paragraph let alone a possibility of a new chapter in my battle with AMD.

I have noticed that as I can’t read a word then I can’t spell it so I can’t pronounce it properly.

So can I teach myself to read again?

So how to do it?

I have been getting closer for some time. I can read what I’m typing in Google Docs. AND on my Google Pixel 7 smartphone I can listen to it.

As I have a Gmail account I get all the standard software email, contacts, calendar/diary, word docs, spreadsheet, maps, Earth, Google 1 remote back-up, Google Search AND what is more All my files are instantly synchronised across all platforms namely laptop and smartphone.

And then Google launched the Pixel Tablet . The screen is three times the size of the phone, a higher quality, a faster processor and the software is identical.

When reading the line needs to be (say) twelve words so that there is a natural one.

Obviously I need to choose a font suitable for a computer screen e.g. Ubuntu or Verdana.

Then to experiment with Font size and Bold.

Other than the title this is Ubuntu, 22 listen, Bold

Now all I have to do is to update all my documents to Ubuntu, 11 Bold.

There at the back of my mind

It started with the word “processional”.

Yes I remembered The Hebrew Slaves from Nabucco, The Triumphal March from Aida and then there was the March of Torreadores from Carmen.

Of course, I must not forget Vidor’s Toccata.

But finally I remembered the word Tannhauser,

That was it. Wagner wasn’t it.

And finally “The Pilgrims’ Chorus.  What a magnificent sound when played on the church organ further helped with the sonorous base notes from the pedals.

And then the sun shone

OK it was only for one day but we did get the chance to replant some of our losses. We can still applaud our good fortune  with the plants that have done well.

In particular our tomatoes and  (after a battle) the runner beans, may be a little early. so we are calling any success.

AND just like farmers we now sit and wait.

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