Playing fewer notes more nicely since 1986. Musician, educator, mother. Strings, gamelan & early years music.
Cheltenham
Joined March 2009
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I haven’t lived in central Bristol for ages so sadly couldn’t vote for @ThangamDebb but she would have been THE BEST culture secretary. Hope they find someone who understands culture at her level, and hope she’ll enjoy more cello playing time.
When the too soon & too sad death of a friend you’d kept meaning to meet up with but never quite managing, at least prompts you to meet up with another friend from the same time/ same group… So good to reconnect @Adam_Chamberln, and fill in some of those 30 something years!
Question for my birding friends: Swimming in a Cotswold lake (no camera) I passed a swimming bird/ duck? with black and white feathers (mostly black, white lower down) and a BLUE beak. Couldn’t see its legs as it was swimming too. What might it be? @LevParikian @VagueBirdAlert
Last week, motivated by the facts that a) I have no idea what ‘the youth of today’ listen to, and b) an alarming number of my violin /viola pupils claim never to listen to any music for pleasure or even in the background, I set all my pupils a ‘listening challenge’…
On the plus side, I’ve had a fab musical chat with a year 11 girl with amazing musical insights and got a list of stuff to discover for myself, and I’ve discovered that a K-pop group has sampled Paganini’s La Campanella…
Salzburg, Sound of Music, @thekannehmasons , Christmas Eve, thinking of another musical dynasty I’m friends with 😭😍
Dreamed that the conductor for a big community concert was indisposed so emergency substitutes were assigned. I was delighted to get to conduct Dvorak 8. Better that than the Frank Martin mass or the massed kids’ choirs…
Christmas Giveaway #giveaway #win kingsumo.com/g/b6qmc0/christ…
This looks good for the non alcoholic drinkers!
I have huge fondness for all the @BBCRadio3 presenters who see me through the day, but at the start of this jolly season, I really do miss the ‘edge’ of @Ianskellyradio3 on my drive to work.
I mean… I’ve had CBT & HRT. CBT was great as far as it went - I had a lovely therapist & it gave me some tactics but it didn’t touch the hot flushes, insomnia, brain fog or period issues. As you might expect. 🤷🏻♀️
CBT being offered to menopausal women to help their physical, biological symptoms-sometimes instead of HRT. I see. You can’t talk your way out of biological menopause so it seems a bit like “conversion therapy” for middle aged women who no one cares about. theguardian.com/society/2023…
Ok, who else can’t hear @BBCRadio3 talking about Alma Mahler without thinking of / singing Tom Lehrer..?
@BBCRadio3 You know I love you & everything, but the mixtape thing? I thought the reason for not telling us what the pieces were, was to keep the flow of music, but now you’ve got little interruptions with no useful info. What’s up with that?
Geek alert.
So, the Liszt that was just on @BBCRadio3 … Ricordanza… suddenly had the theme from Cornelius’s Three Kings. Eh?