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Get your fake-photos Rendaroed
So I open up Guido Fawkes to see what political bullshit is happening (that posting being an example of Guido at his considerable best) and top right, there’s an advert for something along the lines of...
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On how I may now not resume buying classical music magazines
Every month for as long as I can remember, I’ve been buying paper copies of Gramophone and the BBC Music Magazine, “Music” being how the BBC refers to classical music. All over my home, these magazines...
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First photos with the FX150
I can still remember the Great Leap Forward that the Panasonic Lumix FZ150 “bridge” camera was. For me if not for all of photoer-kind. For me, the best “bridge camera” I could have was my perfect...
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The South Bank (red) Lion
There has been lots of photo-reminiscing here lately, so here are some photos I took much more recently. Well, in May of this year anyway: Yes, it’s the lion at the South Bank end of Westminster...
View ArticleBeethoven String Trios concert on video
Having been at the Wigmore Hall for the concert, right when Lockdown was getting serious, I note with pleasure that I can now watch and listen to the complete Beethoven String Trios, at the Wigmore...
View ArticleNo sport and strange sport
It is becoming clearer and clearer to me that one of the weirdest features of what you might describe as “classic Lockdown”, Lockdown when Lockdown was at its most Lockeddown, was the complete absence...
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Beatrice and Titania
Badly needing to get out and exercise, so quota photo, of the above mentioned ladies: Photoed with my old Canon A70, way back in 2003. Behind the two yellow ladies, you can just make out the Wheel. I...
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Bingeing on Haydn symphonies
Every so often, a combination of my ever more gargantuan classical CD collection, of my own shifting tastes in classical music, and of my particular life circumstances result in me experiencing musical...
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Schubert Piano Sonata D959: Andantino
Towards the beginning of Lockdown, I was bingeing on Haydn symphonies. And I did that posting pretty much so that I could remember having done this. I don’t suppose many of my mere readers even read...
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Masked players of wind instruments
Seen on Twitter: I’m sure that historians could easily think of many times in history that were just as stupid as ours, but yes, that is pretty stupid.
View ArticleJohn Simpson Architects
Fake Ancient is my rather sarky description of architecture that looks like it was designed a whole lot longer ago than it really was. But at its best it can be very impressive, and this evening I...
View ArticleAnother carnival of the animals posting
Starting with a new recording of Carnival of the Animals. Saint-Saëns at his harmonious and melodious best. It’s the Kanneh-Mason clan, with additions. Sheku, as of now the most celebrated of this much...
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Young Mozart statue in Belgravia
At the point where Ebury Street joins Pimlico Road, which I think is in “Belgravia”, wherever exactly that starts and ends, there is a small triangle of space, the most notable feature of which is a...
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Crowd scenes
I’ve never been that interested in crowd scenes, until Sod’s Law swung into action and banned them. So I went trawling through the archives, and to see if I could find any. I found … a few: Tate Modern...
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Good morning Mozart
This morning, really quite early in the morning as it happened, I was able to walk past that Mozart statue, in what I think of as Pimlico Square. And because I’m not a morning person, and because the...
View ArticleCopland creatures on a keyboard
More creature stuff. Earlier this evening, I spoke on the phone with friends, exchanging Christmas greetings. The teenage daughter of the family is about to do Grade 8 piano or some such unimaginably...
View ArticleNorman Lebrecht has a go at Barenboim (and Igor Levit is not a God either)
I actually don’t think that the things Norman Lebrecht quotes star classical pianist and conductor Daniel Barenboim saying about the nature of the Covid ordeal now being suffered by him and his fellow...
View ArticleA link
Another rough day, I’m afraid, so not a lot here. But something there, with a couple of quotes from a book about Beethoven. But quotes not about Beethoven. About war.
View ArticleOsimertinib
Yes, Osimertinib. It’s an anti-cancer drug. It derives its power to fight my particular cancer from a test having been done to determine the genetic nature of the cancer that I now have. Journalists...
View ArticleFlash grief
So here I was, all set to do a great excerpt from a book about Beethoven. But then, my scanning software suddenly wasn’t working. I alerted The Guru. After the usual palaver about “Is it plugged in?”...
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