Good morning Planet Earth, and welcome to a little blog post I like to call ‘103 Performances I’ve Done In The Past 2.5 Months’. For those of you who don’t know, I’ve noticed that the best way to make people read something online is by putting a number in the title, so today I’ve decided …
Thought y’all might like to see some evidence of my shenanigans this weekend. For starters, here’s a little picture of me playing bassoooooooooooon 2 with Hazel Grove Orchestra on Saturday night, in a programme consisting of Dvořák’s In Nature’s Realm, Sibelius’ Karelia Suite and Brahms’ Symphony No. 3. Note that Hazel Grove is particularly significant …
Whilst looking round the house the other day in search of my copy of ‘The Oxford Dictionary of Modern Quotations’, I was startled to come across a quartet of tiny bassoonists, all of whom looked exactly like me. They were playing a piece of music – Dvořák’s ‘Humoresque’, I think it was. I immediately found …
