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Jazzy fun

I’m going to be accompanying another of my piano teacher’s pupils for her clarinet diploma in December, with a concert in November as a sort of practice run for the recital. Went to have a play-through of the pieces this evening. The pieces are very nice; I especially enjoyed Joseph Horovitz’s Sonatina, the third movement of which is very jazzy indeed, with some cool “walking bass” left-hand parts, lots of spiky syncopation and generally jazz-tastic chords. Really looking forward to the recital already—it’s at the end of November so we’ll have a few more rehearsals first.

At work, had much frustration with a test pack, but got to go home early as the electricity went off briefly, and when it returned it wasn’t feeding the computers, only lights and phones. ISPF (the editor/thingy on the mainframe) doesn’t auto-save, so I suspect there were many curses just then.

Bowling the other evening really wrecked my right wrist/forearm. It seems to be getting worse, not better. Perhaps I should stop typing…

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  1. The electricity went off yesterday?? Shows how observant I am!

    Comment by Emma — 28th October, 2005 @ 7:27 am

  2. I suspect, from the speed at which it came back on, that it wasn’t a full power cut. Something probably tripped a circuit-breaker of some sort, which would have been feeding a localised section of the building. Odd that lights are on the same ring as everything else though.

    Comment by Michael — 28th October, 2005 @ 9:44 am

  3. Hey, just thought I’d let you know. The tickets for the Victoria Christmas Party came out today, its on 2nd Dec and is a party on a boat on the Thames (£5), we weren’t sure if you’d be able to come but reserved a ticket for you anyways as they were going pretty quickly. I don’t think you’re obliged to buy one if you can’t make it or anything!

    Comment by Emma — 28th October, 2005 @ 7:04 pm

  4. Thanks Emma, sounds good! :-) AFAIK I’m free so I just have to remember to put it in my diary (am thinking of starting to use a “normal” paper-based one as I seem to have had so many mess-ups due to iCal and syncing to phone/iPod/web going wrong…)

    Comment by Michael — 30th October, 2005 @ 11:10 am

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