Monika’s photos, and a good review
Here are some of Monika’s photos from the Mornington Peninsula trip: And our Saturday concert was reviewed in The Age today: Mendelssohn’s The First Walpurgis Night is a curiosity; the composer adapted his all-too-civilized genius to depicting Druidic spring-celebratory rites. The mind that created Elijah and St. Paul produced a tidy, elegantly colourful half-hour setting [...]
Thursday at Robert Blackwood Hall
Tonight we had our general rehearsal for the Walpurgisnacht concert, at RBH at Monash. We do a performance at Monash tomorrow night, then at Hamer Hall on Saturday. The back-row altos of the Melbourne Chorale – Aleksandra, Siobhan, me, Nicole, and Catherine. We were all very pleased about the rehearsal ending at 9.
The artist at work
She’s started drawing water bottles with Sigg lids on them. Dinosaurs are new – and they’re very friendly-looking dinosaurs. These pictures are from a story about a wedding. “Everyone had to pay dollars for that. Everyone does at weddings, because weddings cost money.”
All stock must go!
At playgroup today. Going clockwise, it’s Tilda, Oscar, Elena, Xavier, and Ishika. (Phoebe, Estella, and Harriet were missing, presumed sick.)
Vegetarianism II
Tilda: Meat comes from animals, and they get the meat and they bring it to the shop so that people can buy it. Me: And they have to kill the animals to get the meat … Tilda: Yep, so there’s a nice little hole to get the meat out.
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