Aussies take over the BBC Proms

If you go to http://www.bbc.co.uk/proms/listen/ , go to 'Listen again to the Proms' and click on Prom 72 before Friday you can listen to the Radio 3 broadcast of the Prom I played last Friday with OAE. I'm listening to it now (you never really hear the whole picture in the adrenalin rush of performing!) and it's so weird to listen back. We played the Haffner Symphony so bloody fast and it sounds GREAT!!! Listen to Part 1 first, because that's the Haffner Symphony. The Mozart C minor Mass is in the 2 nd half and it's quite a bit longer!

Sir Charles rocks in a huge way. If I can stand in front of an orchestra in a proms concert for 3 hours when I'm over 80 it'll be a miracle.. and this guy does it every week, in world class performances!

International Flattery Day

Today is International Very Good Looking, Damn Smart Woman's Day...


I was informed of this in an email today from my flatmate who had, in turn, received it from a guy friend in India. She forwarded it to me saying over coffee this morning, very flatteringly, that I also fitted the bill.

We are renaming it International Win Brownie Points With Female Friends Day.

It did, however, include the advice to remember this motto to live by: Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive and well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, chocolate in one hand, wine in the other,
body thoroughly used up, totally worn out and screaming "WOO HOO what a ride!" Have a wonderful day !

and amongst the usual Oprah-esque pearls of wisdom that come in these sorts of feel-good emails, there was this nugget of truth, which was a good thing to hear before going to my rehearsal this afternoon...

Nobody can make you feel inferior without your permission. -Eleanor Roosevelt-

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