February 2012
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“I would like to have everything that is good, genuine and beautiful.”
– W.A. Mozart.
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isay asked: Any news on that Eddy Merckx yet?
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My hot, sweaty Valentine's Day...
…was mostly due to an Army fitness test. Baby.
As good as that was, playing Beethoven’s Egmont Overture with some pretty great musicians (not to mention great people in general!) was also very rewarding. After a fairly torrid 2011, things are looking up in the green machine.
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The Eddy is nearly complete! Stay tuned…
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A highlight from Wikipedia’s entry on Conducting…
‘In the 17th century, other devices [in addition to the large staff] to indicate the passing of time came into use. Rolled up sheets of paper, smaller sticks and unadorned hands are all shown in pictures from this period. The large staff was responsible for the death of Jean-Baptiste Lully, who injured his foot with one while...
Today
featured the Mad Square exhibit at NGV, a delicious lunch at Persimmon, afternoon tea at the Federal Coffee Palace, the first music lesson of the year, and a game of football to round it all out. Amidst all this, on the back of yesterday’s interview my new teaching job was formally confirmed.
Counting my blessings, etc. It’s a wonderful thing to realise that even after five incredible...
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The smell of summer rain is the sweetest thing.
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Today, completely out of the blue, I was offered a salaried teaching position at my alma mater.
