Mah Weekend

If I could create a post so you could live through the intense feeling I have when I play the cello, then I would. So now let's sit around for a some time... waiting, waiting... for the technology to be invented... Hahaha one could perhaps exhaust the entire repertoire for cello and some more before a brainiac somewhere invents it! Apologies but atm my world revolves around cello and music. Can't really multi-task any further lol. Am deciding real soon so be patient a little while longer, dear friends...


Realised yesterday how really exhauted I am by this cello business plus other personal "happenings". TEFL next weekend! What a laugh - in the end had a gleefully prolonged night of beauty sleep ;D and only woke up when my parents texted me thinking I'd overslept! Been just chilling and pigging out the whole day, did only a leeetle bitty slice of work and damn glad about it. Beautiful day with only a little threat of rain so couldn't resist waking the long-dormant shutter bug within.

Top photo taken just outside Whitworth Art Gallery. 2nd of the rather out-of-place clock tower on one of the NHS buildings. Then 3 consecutive shots of the same puddle from different angles, different editing. Kinda think the 3rd has the most interesting reflection, but the 2nd is far more dramative esp with the fine white tracings around the leaves. Comments, ppl!

Last night the Rivoli Quartet (Helen's my cello teacher) and a clarinettist performed first the Patrick Rivers clarinet quintet followed by the ever-classic Mozart A major clarinet quintet. One of the best concerts I've heard in too long. Rivers was a student of the music dept here in the 1950's - really touching that this was the quintet's first public performance after so long. He gave us a brief summary of the piece, and got a little bit emotional when the musicians pulled it off beautifully. As always, the Mozart was lyrical, soothing, uplifting, sublime - you name it, they did it. Tempi stricter that the Emerson Quartet-David Shriffin recording I'm used to, but 'twas really great seeing the interaction between the parts. Felt so much better after the concert I actually walked back to Whitworth with both cellos trailing behind! What a spectacle - had to walk past the long line of rock junkies queuing outside the Academy. Totally different wavelength. You poor, sad bastards. ;P

Photo of lonely Whatisname Whitworth (methinks anyway) with only the lil pidgeons for company. Oxford Road blissfully devoid of the usual mass of humanity. Must be all those silly Malaysians who've gone off to the Nottingham Games... =D Planning to study a bitttt more tomorrow, but then there's that Eid/Raya open house thingy at the International Soc (with freeee foooodd) from 3-6pm... Will probably go along just to mingle.

Anyways, need to run off now. Manc Uni Music Dept String Orch performing tonight - good ole Simon Lloyd conducting some obscure but brilliant pieces, including Warlock's Capriol Suite, Arensky's Variations on a Theme by Tchaikovsky and Britten's Simply Symphony, so must definitely listen if just for memory's sake. The Warlock was perhaps my first-ever chamber performance (UWC), the very rare and beautiful Arensky I did in Wells (Year 10??), and the Britten's 1st mvt just a few months ago in Sherborne... What satisfying continuity.

PS having problems synchronising picasa+hello+blogspot all at once. Decided to just publish one photo per day and blog when I feel like writing more or have the time to do so.