The Slightly Late Friday Five

1. Are books losing importance as a source of information and entertainment?

2. Are e-books the death of paper books? Will paper books disappear?

3. Should libraries focus on improving their technological resources rather than building a larger collection of paper books?

4. How important are early reading skills in a child’s academic performance?

5. Are people who spend a lot of time reading fiction wasting their time which could be better spent doing more useful.

Polemical and controversial thoughts, so what is your take on things?

Good Morning

Stravinsky 50

"An artists is a kind of pig snouting truffles"
                                                  Igor Stravisnky

Well, dear reader, it is another sunny day against the odds.
The forecast was wrong and today it is another sunny day with a high this afternoon of 14C.

BBC Radio 3 is doing their Stravinsky Day. It is the  50th anniversary of Stravnsky's death.

His music continues to resonate in today's world, how his legacy has been in effect reinvented, from contemporary composition to film scores, from digital sampling in pop to the language of jazz, and also in the world of dance.

A Stravinsky tune became Orch 5 on a Fairlight synthesiser/sampler now called the "orchestral stab".

Stravinsky - The Rite Of Spring

Claudio Abbado: London Symphony Orchestra

Just Wondering

How do you prefer your potatoes?

On average, how many fresh fruits do you eat?

What's your very favourite soup?

Three To The Top

Three tunes before midnight or the top.

Paul Weller - Study in Blue

Macka B - Step Up

Hempress Sativa - Boom (Wah Da Da Deng)

ENJOY

Stravinsky Again

A final slice of Stravinsky before the witching hour -

Igor Stravinsky - Symphony of Psalms for Mixed Chorus, Winds, Cellos and Double Basses

ENJOY

Good Night