Edited by Pete Collier, Monday, 15 July 2013, 20:26
July 14th: Festival Parish Eucharist on the 80th anniversary of the dedication of All Saints’ Hillingdon. Celebrant and preacher: The right Reverend and Right Honourable Dr. Richard Chartres KCVO, Bishop of London.
…and at the bottom of the front cover of the published booklet, in small print, it says: -
Trumpeter: Mr Peter Collier
Yep, yours truly!
Ok, so perhaps not a major London event, but it was big enough to make me nervous for a week before hand - my name on the front cover not helping in this respect! All went well though, with one of John Stanley’s voluntaries from 1752 duly performed at the end of ceremonies - Karl played the organ. Said Bishop found and congratulated me afterward, even though I suspect that he regularly hears better musicians than I… Not only that, my latest TMA03 came back with a good score if not quite ‘grade A’, much as Sunday’s performance would have got me an exam pass, but not a distinction for my playing… a successful weekend at last.
Trumpeting and TMA03 (for Social Sciences DD131) has kept me busy for the past two weeks and before that I was ‘laid low’ for nearly two weeks with a rather nasty/painful stomach bug Unusually for me I had to cancel one of my ‘appearances’ at church and even missed out on the June ‘monthly pizza excursion’ with (Hi Fi) Richard as he and some of his colleagues were similarly afflicted! Pizza will now be consumed on the 27th July - I hope...
Now, before the weather changes, some Stevie Wonder lyrics from them there 80s
“Everyone's feeling pretty;
It's hotter than July.
Though the world's full of problems;
They couldn't touch us even if they tried.”
Well now, even though I haven’t gone back to my 80s collection, I can’t help but think of these lyrics with the hot days that we’ve been having. Too hot for me really, with the southern UK forecast set to remain very warm and perhaps even ‘Hotter Than July’ - the title of the album from which the above song "Master Blaster (Jammin’)" lyrics are from.
Following on from my last entry, I have indeed purchased some Bruckner (as .FLAC downloads) and am now listening to his Symphony No.1 (1865-66) and Symphony 0 or ‘Die Nullte’ (1869) which became so called as he was apparently unhappy with it becoming regularly performed. The ‘0’ probably signifying that the work was nullified and subsequently kept as a library copy - as opposed to my other current favourite, Dvorak, who actually destroyed some of his works from around this period. In fact, this Bruckner 0 is really his 2nd symphony (or even his 3rd if you include the ‘study’ or 00 symphony) but most collections that include ‘Die Nullte’ carry the title ‘Symphonies 0 - 9’ and generally don’t include ‘00’.
THE BISHOP OF LONDON
July 14th: Festival Parish Eucharist on the 80th anniversary of the dedication of All Saints’ Hillingdon. Celebrant and preacher: The right Reverend and Right Honourable Dr. Richard Chartres KCVO, Bishop of London.
…and at the bottom of the front cover of the published booklet, in small print, it says: -
Trumpeter: Mr Peter Collier
Yep, yours truly!
Ok, so perhaps not a major London event, but it was big enough to make me nervous for a week before hand - my name on the front cover not helping in this respect! All went well though, with one of John Stanley’s voluntaries from 1752 duly performed at the end of ceremonies - Karl played the organ. Said Bishop found and congratulated me afterward, even though I suspect that he regularly hears better musicians than I… Not only that, my latest TMA03 came back with a good score if not quite ‘grade A’, much as Sunday’s performance would have got me an exam pass, but not a distinction for my playing… a successful weekend at last.
Trumpeting and TMA03 (for Social Sciences DD131) has kept me busy for the past two weeks and before that I was ‘laid low’ for nearly two weeks with a rather nasty/painful stomach bug
Unusually for me I had to cancel one of my ‘appearances’ at church and even missed out on the June ‘monthly pizza excursion’ with (Hi Fi) Richard as he and some of his colleagues were similarly afflicted! Pizza will now be consumed on the 27th July - I hope...
Now, before the weather changes, some Stevie Wonder lyrics from them there 80s
“Everyone's feeling pretty;
It's hotter than July.
Though the world's full of problems;
They couldn't touch us even if they tried.”
Well now, even though I haven’t gone back to my 80s collection, I can’t help but think of these lyrics with the hot days that we’ve been having. Too hot for me really, with the southern UK forecast set to remain very warm and perhaps even ‘Hotter Than July’ - the title of the album from which the above song "Master Blaster (Jammin’)" lyrics are from.
Following on from my last entry, I have indeed purchased some Bruckner (as .FLAC downloads) and am now listening to his Symphony No.1 (1865-66) and Symphony 0 or ‘Die Nullte’ (1869) which became so called as he was apparently unhappy with it becoming regularly performed. The ‘0’ probably signifying that the work was nullified and subsequently kept as a library copy - as opposed to my other current favourite, Dvorak, who actually destroyed some of his works from around this period. In fact, this Bruckner 0 is really his 2nd symphony (or even his 3rd if you include the ‘study’ or 00 symphony) but most collections that include ‘Die Nullte’ carry the title ‘Symphonies 0 - 9’ and generally don’t include ‘00’.
Peer pressure huh??
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