Crazy Roland...

Playlist
Miles Davis – The Cellar Door Sessions 1970
Rheostatics – Final Concert Massey Hall Toronto 30/3/07
Miles Davis – Live Evil
Miles Davis – On the Corner
Cloudland Blue Quartet – Concrete
Grand Funk Railroad – 30 Years of Funk
Billy Cobham – Spectrum
Vivaldi – Opera Overtures
Les Arts Florissants – 10 Ans : Opera Musique

Up late (8am) finished off analysis of most played artists May 06 to April 07…

Breakfast at home then on the bike round to the Store for some essentials…

Round to sister in law Jane’s at 2pm for Aberdeen v Hearts on TV – much wailing and gnashing of teeth from the assembled Hearts fans during the first half until the equaliser right on half time…

Popped back to Crispycat Towers to collect my ticket for tonight’s extravaganza, then back to Jane’s for the second half...

Hearts on top but a 1-1 draw the final result – which is still better than Queen of the South’s defeat yesterday away at Dundee (2-1 but could’ve been 10-1 by all accounts) which followed on their being emptied out of the CIS Cup on Wednesday by lowly East Fife…

Have the wheels come off already? Is Queen’s good play going to be seen to have ended after 87 minutes against St Johnstone in the opening game?

Monopoly against nephew Oliver and I resisted the temptation to cheat, which, let’s face it, is always there when you’re playing against a six year old…

I won fair and square though and, unlike many a child, Ollie took it with good grace and is looking forward to our next game…

His quote of the day? “Granny, I think we need to mortgage something”….

Then to the Usher Hall for a concert version (i.e. no acting or scenery) of Vivaldi’s opera, “Orlando Furioso”…



Turns out Vivaldi actually wrote three operas around this story (in a letter written just before he died he mentioned he’d completed 94 operas – not all of them have survived to the present day) …

I was in the gods and could only see half the stage, I hadn’t bought a programme and so, not having researched it beforehand, I had no idea what it was about…

It was great though, good music and excellent singing. And, at half time, I moved to a seat right up at the back in the middle of the Upper Circle and had a perfect view and the sound was better…

It was a long haul though, over three hours with just a 20 minute break…

Back home in time for “Match of the Day 2” and then bed…

Highlight of the Day : Vivaldi