Wednesday, May 30, 2007

Music takes you on a trip...

Playlist
Cloudland Blue Quartet - Best of 1990-1995
Adams - Shaker Loops
Tartini - Concerto for Violin, Strings and Harpsichord
Tartini - Concerto for Cello, Strings and Harpsichord
Martinu - String Quartet No 2

Continuing to listen to old CBQ stuff re the anthology project, before the arduous and onerous task of returning to the actual new album to continue recording...

At lunchtime today whilst browsing in HMV, I picked up the 2007 Naxos catalogue with a view to researching recordings of more 18th Century music following last week's purchases of Dittersdorf and Beck...

I also bought my first book for a very long time, probably too long - Richard Dawkins' "The God Delusion"...

He once paraphrased a quote by Steven Weinberg (Nobel laureate in physics):

With or without religion, good people can behave well and bad people can do evil — but for good people to do evil — that takes religion.”

How true...

I called German chum Jorg re our upcoming trip to Documenta 12 in Kassel, to find that he's been on strike for the last four weeks re the proposed restructuring of Deutsche Telekom, for whom he's worked for probably the last 20 years - he's on the picket line every day apparently...

We hope to bring some much needed cheer when we visit Jorg, Yvonne, our Godson Ansem and his siblings Xenia and Teja...

In the evening, after two episodes of "Coronation St" I listened to a programme of some classical music which I put together last night but didn't get a chance to hear due to deciding to watch Yentob's surrealism tosh...

Two 17th Century Concerti, set between two 20th Century works, one American the other European...

Tasty....



Adams' "Shaker Loops" reminded me of our visit to the Shaker Village in New England in 1999, Tartini brought to mind our Venice trip of 2004 and the Martinu disc was purchased in his home country on our Prague adventure in 2003..

Happy days...

And ending just in time for some old Alice Coooper vids on YouTube followed by the last episode of this series of "Desperate Housewives"..

Highlight of the Day : A musical journey

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