What�s snew?
8:00 a.m.
The pianist was very good, but did have some technical difficulties at one point. Here�s what our brochure said about him: �One of Sh�brooke�s own, Jimmy Bri�re has moved onto the world stage after completing his studies at Indiana University. Winner of several piano competitions (Hong Kong, Porto in Portugal), Bri�re will present a dazzling programme of piano virtuosity, with works of Haydn, Ravel, Liszt, and Rachmaninoff, and two superb contemporary studies for the instrument, by American John Corigliano, and Canadian Marc-Andr� Hamelin.� He substituted a Bartok piece for the Ravel, and had the technical difficulties in the Hamelin, a prelude and fugue. He started the fugue too fast, his fingers got tied up in knots, and he stopped, turned to the audience, and said, �I�m going to start over.� He did, and it was fantastic. The Corigliano piece dated from 1976, five studies running attacca, and was really very fine. He�s a young fellow, and Hubby was calculating that when we first moved to the area would have been 12 years old. Now he�s all growed up!
An interesting aside, a couple who have not been all that nice to me in the past sat near us, and I actually had a conversation with the wife. We stayed on �safe� topics, namely the weather and driving long distances, but that was a nice thaw in our relationship. She even said goodbye to me before they left, which she hasn�t done in months now.
By the way, I�ve joined my first diaryring. I am now a grammarbitch, as you can see by the link at the bottom of my page. I considered all the possibilities (there are diaryrings for Canadians, Quebeckers, musicians, singers [who technically speaking are not musicians, go figure that one out], vegetarians, non-smokers, people with toenail fungus, and incorrigible nosepickers) and decided that this most reflected my on-line character. If anyone feels like starting a diaryring for people who cry when they hear bagpipes, I�ll join that one like a shot.
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