Sunday 8 January 2006 14:00-15:30 (Radio 3) (9 am EST)
Stephanie Hughes presents a concert given by the baritone Thomas Quasthoff with pianist Charles Spencer at Wigmore Hall last year. They perform one of the great song cycles – Die Schöne Müllerin by Schubert, which tells the story of a miller boy’s obsession with the mill owner’s daughter.
Thomas Quasthoff offers his thoughts on the cycle, and Schubert’s vocal writing.
BBC – Radio 3 – Sunday Gala – Thomas Quasthoff with Charles Spencer.
interesting how one’s mood changes – i wasn’t going to listen to this today – but hearing tips that Ruth Ann was in good voice and then seeing that Ramon Vargas was singing – hmmm, its actually just what the Dr ordered (oops!) and has helped raise my spirits after a long week of dealing with no hot water, a broken lyre on the piano and returning to work in the gloom of a winter January in the northeast .
count on Donizetti to bring sunny laughter and joy into the cold of winter! Brava et tutti!
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Celebrated soprano Régine Crespin talks to Iain Burnside about her life and career, with excerpts from her favourite recordings.
Check it out for the next seven days at the website.
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WHRB’s winter Orgy® period starts on Tuesday. Below are highlights, including start times. The most expansive Orgies® are boldfaced, and full details are available here. Times given are EST (UTC -5 hours).
6 January, 12h00: Orlande de Lassus
8 January, 12h30: Robert Schumann
15 January, 12h30: First Nights
16 January, 08h00: Buxtehude
18 January, 06h00: Karl Leister
18 January, 16h00: Dmitri Shostakovich and the Soviet Era
21 January, 18h45: Bruno Walter
23 January, 09h00: Michael Haydn
23 January, 21h00: Tim Hecker
24 January, 15h00: Ginastera
25 January, 08h00: Biber
27 January, 08h00: ElgarWHRB broadcasts at 95.3 FM in the Boston area and webcasts worldwide at WHRB.org.
A healthy and happy new year to all! one of my resolutions is to update this blog more often and I will be able to as I am knitting again!! yahoo!
actually started a cable shrug – adaptation of the Paden Shrug in the Fall Interweave. I changed the middle cables to ones that I like – but kept the outside strips. its for my mother. i had a cabled scarf i had knitted and she liked that so she got one present – but i owe her a bday present so that will work for that one. need to photo it before i leave today.
am in Baton Rouge, well, Prairieville this holiday weekend – its in the 60s so going back tonight will be a shock to the cold of New York – and I hear that it snowed yesterday! so that will be pretty i hope…. and i hope my flight back wont be horrible! fingers crossed – i have to go to Houston and then to LaGuardia. long travel day! oh well.
the bad news is that my IPOD (two years old) is broken and i cant even get it to bring up a menu – its disappointing in the extreme especially for the four hour flight i have tonight ugh! and then the whole nightmare of getting it repaired or replaced etc. its the 40 gb so it wasnt cheap and now i am not really in the mood to pay 400 for the 60 gb. sigh. and my piano is broken (more later). it seems like i am ending the year with lots of broken stuff and hopefully starting the new year getting things fixed.
i hope to swatch for the KAL that the ARAN KNIT list is starting today – will have to play catch up as I finish the shrug and then work on that – as well as two sweaters – both of my nephews have their bdays in January – ONE DAY APART ! its a conspiracy – to have christmas/hannuakah and then bdays within three weeks – no fair! so i will have to plan better next year!
last week on monday i finally unpacked and organized all my knitting projects and yarns etc. – discovered many projects ! some i had forgotten LOL. so i have them all in one basket and a great little ottoman i had found on ebay – so they are in the den where i can sit and work on them and watch tv… maybe i will do what another knitter has done in the past – pick a day for a project and work on each one on its own day and see if i can get thru them that way . its an interesting concept.
ok off to pack and get ready for the long trip home.
Happy Knitting in 2006!
Starting the new year off to a good beginning – listening to the BBC Radio 3 broadcasts of New Year’s concerts from around the world – started with Mozart from Berlin and now Beethoven Ninth from Paris. Good to have some inspiring music to start off the day and the year . Traveling back from Baton Rouge to New York later today.
Best wishes to all for a healthy and happy new year!
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In the air from new york to baton rouge via houston. Whatever happened to nonstop flights anyway? Cab came at 4 am and we made very good time arriving at 430. Checked in curbside and was under baggage weight limit so didn’t have to stand in line or pay extra. Got tea and yogurt and then went thru the security checkpoint. First time since 9-11 that I was NOT stopped and hand searched or had bags inspected. Kniiting needles and short scissors were not even acknowledged thank goodness. Have to do some serious knitting on the flight after a short nap.
Spent most of the last six days making major headway in unpacking and settling in. Actually put a few rugs down todsy and went thru the boxes of tchotckes and put some out and will pack the rest up and store when I return.
At this point only two rooms have unpacked boxes – bedroom and study. There is a box of rugs and one of pictures in the music room but those are waiting to be hung and laid out
Piano repair man came last thursday and found that the lyre is cracked. He couldn’t stay to take it apart as he has cat allergies. So another man came today and took it off to take to the shop to repair. Its obvious that this has happened before – there is old dried glue in the crack which is, of course, on the right pedal side.
This man says that the stuck E and F keys are because the action needs regulating. So this is the third opinion on these stuck keys. Sigh. To regulate the action will be several thousand dollars. Sigh again. I am not sure who to believe and can’t seem to get a straight answer. I am going to call the owner later today and see what he advises. I am beginning to think I have wasted my money but am hoping its not the case. How I wish I could afford a nice lovely steinway. Sigh sigh and sigh.
So I will not have any access to a piano where I will be and then when I get back it will be to a piano with no pedals. Well it will be a good opportunity to work on my finger legato. Not sure when I will get the lyre back.
The good news is that the rest of the apt is beginning to catch up with the kitchen and bath which were done months ago. And its starting to feel like my home not a space I am occuping. Some of the strangeness is wearing off and I’m becoming accustomed to the nuances of this space. The way the light moves thru the apt from the back which faces east to the front which faces west and towards the river.
Soon soon all the boxes will be gone and then it will be time to start on the garden. !!!!
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