Filtering

I had an email from one of my research companies this morning for help in completing a job, except for that fact that they did not filter the email going out - female shoppers only. Does this mean i have to wear lipstick and a skirt lol?

Charles Villiers Stanford

Another neglected composer this time from Ireland -

Charles Villiers Stanford - Oedipus Rex Prelude (1887)

Painting Info - Artist is Feng Zhu.

Charles Villiers Stanford was an Irish composer, music teacher, and conductor. Born to a well-off and highly musical family in Dublin, Stanford was educated at the University of Cambridge before studying music in Leipzig and Berlin. He was instrumental in raising the status of the Cambridge University Musical Society, attracting international stars to perform with it.

While still an undergraduate, Stanford was appointed organist of Trinity College, Cambridge. In 1882, aged 29, he was one of the founding professors of the Royal College of Music, where he taught composition for the rest of his life. From 1887 he was also the professor of music at Cambridge. As a teacher, Stanford was sceptical about modernism, and based his instruction chiefly on classical principles as exemplified in the music of Brahms. Among his pupils were rising composers whose fame went on to surpass his own, such as Gustav Holst and Ralph Vaughan Williams. As a conductor, Stanford held posts with the Bach Choir and the Leeds triennial music festival.

Some critics regarded Stanford, together with Hubert Parry and Alexander Mackenzie, as responsible for a renaissance in music from the British Isles. However, after his conspicuous success as a composer in the last two decades of the 19th century, his music was eclipsed in the 20th century by that of Edward Elgar as well as former pupils.

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Go Fish ...

Thought i was totally skint but forgot about the two visits in Brighton and Hove last month i did - okay not much , just twenty five quid in my account this morning but better than a slapped kipper in the face.

Charmed Reboot ...

Blessed be! Fingers crossed and hopeful -

http://hiddenremote.com/2016/03/05/charmed-reboot-happened-power-3/

Charmed I Am

Holly as Piper



Holly and Shannen and kids



Shannen



And awesome Rose.

Totally in heaven now, and smitten again.

Faversham and Canterbury Visits

I just spent over a tenner from the remittance received today. Two visits in Faversham and Canterbury. The first being a travel agents and the latter one a visit to a home furnishing=g store. Weather was back to the normal fine warm sunny May day - hooray!



Walking through Canterbury.



Street musicians in Canterbury.


On the way back is stopped in Faversham for a bit of sunbathing at my usual spot and my familiar friend came to see me.



Whilst in Canterbury i found these fro fifty pence each.