You've got to pity the neighbours

[nineveh_uk]

The Opera North orchestra performs a social distance version of Thus Spake Zarathustra, in concet dress, naturally. Imagine being the people who live next door to the timpani. It's also quite fun to spot the Ikea furniture.

Watch on YouTube

In local news, I am in some dire need of new piano music, so any suggestions welcome (about grade 5 ABRSM, not too hard. What I'd really like would be 'songs from the shows' that sit between the too easy and the too difficult).


I am also starting to feel much better once again, with fever symptoms having vanished, though I could do without the morning congestion that inevitably kicks in when I have something vaguely respiratory for a while. The Guardian has what seems a good article on how to look after yourself. I really wish that the NHS website had more on this, particularly on the need for rest. I spend so much time with colds etc. that I don't rest solidly through them, and it would have been handy to know from day 1, which was several days before I stopped work, that you need to down tools early. But that would be against the national spirit. But really I continue to have got off lightly.

Now for my regularly scheduled post-lunch sitting in the garden. It is so sunny that I have even put on a hat.

Comments

[philomytha]

Glad to hear you're on the mend! And yeah, some musical instruments are easier on the neighbours than others...

[antisoppist]

I shouted to the nurse across the street to put a sign up or a note through the door when she is on nights (or even when she isn't) and I will stop Son playing the drums but she said she has absolutely amazing earplugs.

[nineveh_uk]

Have you seen the drumming weatherman?

[nineveh_uk]

Mind you, can anything really be worse than a 6 year old with a recorder?

[philomytha]

A six year old with a violin is worse ;-). Practically the last thing I did before this lockdown started was go to a concert of 5-7 year-olds all playing their first solo piece on either violin, piano or recorder (Cub was recorder). And one boy who did his first drum solo and collapsed the drum kit halfway through by hitting it too hard, that child is going places...

It was a very long hour and a half.

[bopeepsheep.livejournal.com]

I have grade 5 singing books, and the piano parts are mostly around the same level to my eye, but no sensible way of lending any of it to you. :(

[nineveh-uk.livejournal.com]

Looking at grade 5 singing books are a good suggestion, though, as I want to do some more singing. Though I think I would need to go down a bit for the combination! Maybe grade 4 (I have no idea what the singing grades are really like...)