Cat Box

Florence does this too.

Music Ho!

I walked into Sittingbourne this morning as it was bright sunny day despite some ominous clouds. It did rain during the afternoon whilst i was in the Office.

Picked up a cheap classical CD for 25 pence from the Demelza charity shop , Gliere's  Symphony No. 3 by the Czecho-Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by Donald Johanos (Naxos) . He is a composer i know very little about except that he was a Russian composer. It will be interesting to what it sounds like but for now i am enjoying the Haydn two CD disc of The Creation i picked up for £1.50.

I do love baroque music on original instruments . i am a real sucker for it. I m ust try to get to Cranbrook village one day as they have a charity shop full of classical music CD's for a quid each.

Tomorrow a trip to Faversham is in order to unload more unwanted stuff. Well needs must as they say.

I watched some of the Glastonbury weekend. I thought Dolly Parton was terrific as too were Metallica and the Daptone Soul tent was a real treat. Quality funky soul music.

Across The Pond

From what i gather the situation from over that large pond we call the Atlantic has been another setback for feminism in a big way. It seems that once again the anti-abortion, anti-contraception, anti-gay Christian far right and misogynistic nob-heads with their rich corporate lackeys are in the ascendancy. I thought Obama was a good thing for the States but his position seems to be getting weaker and the ridiculous right and Republican revisionists are ruling the roost.   Jeez, and you know what, what twittery happens there is bound to end up here. Where are the left when you need them now? 

Gliere No. 3

This was quite a discovery, the music of Reinhold Gliere and his third symphony "Ilya Muromets".  It is a  long work of epic proportions. It was premiered in 1912 and won the composer a Glinka prize. Each of the four tableaux depicts an episode from the legend of Ilya Muromets, the greatest of the Russian bogatyrs (hero-knights).

The first movement alone sealed it for me.

Enjoy.

Edge Of Darkness

They are repeating the classic Bob Peck nuclear waste drama The Edge Of Darkness on BBC 4 and the first episode was this evening.

It is a classic 1980s conspiracy thriller set in a world of obsessive state security and political power play. Ronald Craven, a Yorkshire policeman is investigating a union election scandal when his daughter, Emma, is shot and killed in front of him. Learning of his daughter's involvement in an ecological group and absolutely determined to trace her killer