Devizes Melting Pot

“Protection. Conservation. Restriction. Deep ecology. Give me deep technology any day. They don't scare me. "I'm damned if I'll crawl, my children's children crawl on the earth in some kind a fuckin' harmony with the environment. Yeah, till the next ice age or the next asteroid impact." (Moh Kohn, The Star Fraction)/ "This is the fight between God and the Devil. If His Grace is with God, he must join me, if he is for the Devil he must fight me. There is no third way" King Gustavus Adolphus

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University graduate, currently working as an Information Assistant for the NHS. Interested in politics, history, sci fi etc.

Sunday, May 27, 2012

Sunday Ballet Blogging

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Friday, May 25, 2012

Friday Music Blogging

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Friday Cat Blogging

Heidi birdwatching
Enjoying the sun
George 

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Sunday, May 20, 2012

Sunday Ballet Blogging

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Devizes Chamber Choir Summer Concert

Here is the summer concert programme in full

The theme of the summer concert is a double Diamond Jubliee, Queen Victoria's and of course Queen Elizabeth II's. So our choir and music director has selected pieces which are linked to these two eras.

First Half Programme - Victoria

Zadok The Priest (Victoria's coronation)
Food, Glorious Food (from Oliver!) - Brings in Charles Dickens (iconic figure of the age); also symbolise the poverty and social inequity of the age
Mechanisation (Nelson) Industrial revolution
Felix Mendelssohn: Verleih' uns Frieden

Gilbert and Sullivan: epitomises late Victorian period; political satire of the time
'A Nice Dilemma' from Trial by Jury
'Try We Life Long' from The Gondoliers
'When I Was A Lad' from HMS Pinafore
Long Day Closes by Henry Fothergill Chorley and Arthur Sullivan (death of Victoria)

Second half programme - Elizabeth II

Rock Around the Clock - Rock and Roll era
The Beatles in Revue - 60s Key British group
Also Sprach Zarathustra?? dawn of the space age organ solo
Money, Money, Money (ABBA) - economic growth of 70s/80s
Bohemian Rhapsody - "Queen" - 1980s - another key British pop group
Drop Drop Slow Tears
Land of Hope and Glory
God Save the Queen

Pretty elective summer concert programme but so far has been fun to learn.

The Summer Concert is being held on the 21st July at the Church St Mary the Virgin, Bishop's Cannings

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Friday, May 18, 2012

Friday Cat Blogging

Heidi

George

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Sunday, May 13, 2012

Sunday Opera & Ballet Blogging

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Friday, May 11, 2012

Friday Music Blogging

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Friday Cat Blogging

Heidi

Heidi helping with present wrapping

George enjoying the sunshine

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Sunday, May 06, 2012

Sunday Ballet Blogging

Ulyana Lopatkina in the ballet 'Raymonda' (02/05/12 Mariinsky Theatre)

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Friday, May 04, 2012

Friday Music Blogging

RIP Adam Yauch

 

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Friday Cat Blogging (with Special Guest Star)

Onyx

George

Heidi

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Thursday, May 03, 2012

Russia's Take on Winnie the Pooh

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London Blogging

Champagne Afternoon Tea at Claridges Hotel, London

Very nice tea

Me at Claridges  

Delicious little cakes

Small but mighty scones, with yummy jam and clotted cream


Blurry shot of the curtain call at end of La Fille mal gardée. (l-r) Gary Avis (Village Notary), Alastair Marriott (Widow Simone), Laura Morera (Lise), Liam Scarlett (Alain), Christopher Saunders (Thomas)

Kind of blurry but a shot of Laura Morera (Lise) and Ricardo Cervera (Colas). Curtain call at end of La Fille mal gardée, Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London

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