My life continues a bit fractured, so there'll be no thoughtful exploration of a single theme in this post, but once again, a jumble of bits and pieces.  First, just for your pleasure, is a link to a photo of a beautiful white kangaroo.

Second, a concert report!  Last weekend I heard for the first time Stokowski's transcription for orchestra of ( Read more... )

Literature!  Theatre!  Music!  and a swimming pool!!  It was a brilliant, brilliant weekend.  Oh, and on Friday night, a spectacular and silent lightning storm.  amazing!

The theatre wasn't really on the weekend - it was on Thursday night, but near enough, near enough - and it was terrific.  Sombre in places, and theatre-of-ideas in places ( ( Read more... )

It's been a busy weekend - opera, culinary triumph, further adventures with Victor Hugo...  Now that I look at all I've written, I think maybe it'd go better under cuts, so...)

The opera was on Saturday night -( but was it really opera? )

I like lots of different kinds of music, including laid-back saxophone music.  :)   And tonight, I'll be off to a concert with saxophonist Trần Mạnh Tuấn, whose music I first heard in a taxi, in the taxi's CD player.  Ahhh... it felt wonderful... so cooling  (maybe it was hot day?) and calm.  :)  I loved it so much and enthused so much to the taxi- ( Read more... )

Lots of cultural experiences over the past week, including some classic Doctor Who, (Fourth Doctor, with jelly-babies and scarf) and  the first two Vorkosigan novels.  But as well as those, a couple of the seriously greats:

Last Thursday I was at a performance of Verdi's Requiem.( To which I can only say... )

Hesperion XXI and Jordi Savall and Monserrat Figuerras and all of them have given so much to me as a listener over the years.  I have heard them at several different concerts at different Adelaide Festivals, and have spoken with the (late and much-missed) astonishingly lovely Montserrat Figuerras after a concert one night, as she walked back from ( Read more... )