djelibeybi’s Uncle Charlie conducting Gilbert & Sullivan’s Patience. Lots of fun. Shame I wasn’t really awake enough at the beginning to fully appreciate it. It took a LOT of chocolate plus an interval strawberry Haagen-Daaz ice cream to really bring me to. It’s been a tough week!

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My indulgence of the Chandos 30th anniversary box set, “Milestones”, turned up in the post today. It’s a lovely little set and I can’t wait to listen to it. Too shattered right now though, having been up since 5.30 to see La Niece off at the airport and having to stay awake for about another hour means loud boppy pop music, not interesting, subtle classical.

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I read Stravinsky’s lecture series “The Poetics of Music” when I was at uni, but haven’t really re-read it since, so I’m revisiting it at the moment, with great enjoyment. It makes me so happy that my music-brain has decided to revive – a mere few months back I couldn’t have made sense of anything like this (or any other sensible book) – now I’m sailing through it, and also through the book of essays on Rothko’s work which my Da gave me while he was here, which is also fascinating.

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