Morning Temperature

-1° today

Morning Temperature

3° today.

Mid-concert Report

Well more of a pre-concert report really. I didn't do the rehearsal of
the Ravel piano concerto yesterday, because we only needed 8 violas, and
it was my turn for a number off, but as luck would have it, someone is
off, so I have had to do it anyway, except on a run-through rather than
a rehearsal. The bummer is that the symphony is not Schostakovich's
best, but it is his longest. 72 minutes of his finest russian charm and
perkiness. Some lovely bits, but some really dreary 15 minutes'. I
really don't fancy the trip to Leeds on saturday, a 7 hour coach trip, a
long concert, and then back off at 9 the next morning. Roll on easter...

Tonights concert.

God it's a long one. The Schubert symphony came in at 58 minutes lkast
night, and when you add an uninspiring Beethovens 4th piano concerto
form John Lill and a very sub-standard Mendelssohn overture (Athalia),
and also factor in 2 pints of grolsch, you can imagine the trouble I'm
going to have staying awake for the next few hours.

This is funny.

http://www.theonion.com/content/node/45394