Some of me is better

[robinmckinley]

 
My stomach is better.  The rest of me . . . isn’t.  Sigh.  One of the splendidest pleasures of ME is the way the symptoms change.  It’s like, jeez, what’s the matter with me?  -Oh, right, ME.  In this case, this is a particularly achy manifestation.  This is what I’d be like if I ate lots of tomatoes all the time, I suppose, plus the sciatica

Comments

[tassie_gal]

I'm with you on the plantive voices of plants. I have at least one TAsmanian geranium I bought LAST MONTH sitting forlonly in the wind wanting to be planted out with all the other geraniums at the front of the house. Mind you the sunflowers decided to outright FALL OVER last night due to the wind, despite the fact they all have lovely thick stakes holding them up! Yet the delphiniums stayed upright and they dont HAVE stakes and they are just as tall and twice as flimsy as the sunflowers.....I dont get it!

[robinmckinley]

I bought LAST MONTH

********** only last MONTH? I have things in pots from LAST YEAR. I tip them out occasionally to check root snarl, tip them back in, feed them . . .

[ext_91778]

Have you tried putting all of your sheet music (alphabetized) in one three ring binder (or five if necessary)? That way you could take it out when you need it--or do like my sister (who is an accomplished pianist (I just pretend to be one) and, by the way, likes sharps better than flats) and put her music in her binder taped together in such a way that she does not even have to take the music out of the binder to play it.

[robinmckinley]

Too many different books and bits and pieces.

[anonymous]

I hope the ME creeps off to wherever it came from... Congratulations on the new music rack. New equipment like that seems to urge us all to organise, until we slide once more into the haze of too many things, not enough space

[robinmckinley]

Oh, Mozart, oh Sokolov, oh oh! Ugh ugh perfume though--I entirely agree there.

[anonymous]

yay for new specialized Music Rack!

there are a few pianos I've practiced on that have horrible ways to hold up music and it always falls... very frustrating.

last night I had a choir concert for the Russian Music series the Academy is putting on this year (every year it's something different, i.e. French Music, Schubertiade, etc.). we sang one of the most horrid pieces (IMO) for SATB choir, SATB soloists, 4(!!!) pianos and 7 parts of percussion. it's called "The Wedding", by the way, and it's Stravinsky as was the whole concert.
two of the pianists who played with us earlier performed Stravinsky's Rite of Spring in an arrangement for four hands. the way the woman, who was playing the upper octaves, turned pages... it was very intense! :)

here's to more comfortable playing days! *raises glass*

and now back to Mozart...

maya.

[robinmckinley]

Well I like a lot of Stravinsky, although if I never heard Petrushka again I would not mourn. But Mozart is The Man.

[anonymous]

I wholeheartedly agree. Mozart is The Man :)

I think that had you heard the young wonder who played Petrushka on the piano at the beginning of the concert, you wouldn't have been dissappointed. he was absolutely fantastic.

here's to continuous good weather.

maya.

[anonymous]

*****I was talking wistfully about how much sheer volume you can get out of Oisin’s baby grand (whom my tuner also tunes), he said, well, you know you can perfectly well prop open the lid of an upright, and you’ll get a lot more volume out of it too. And of course he’s right. Duh

[robinmckinley]

You're allowed to look at your hands if you're playing from MEMORY. What a bribe, huh? Although I'd already started memorising at that point, so my motives were reasonably pure . . . :)