Topics of interest to adult amateurs, and music lovers
...a year of record-low unemployment, and job opportunities for ex-prisoners and black and other minority workers...until it wasn't. A year of thriving small businesses, after-work drinks at our favorite Chinese restaurant, and ample overtime work due to a full order book at my aerospace job...until it wasn't. Quite quickly, 2020 turned into the Annus Horribilis. …
Continue reading When I was 71, it was a Very Bad Year. The Year of “Closed” and “Canceled”
Merry Christmas to all my followers and readers, here on RushBabe49.com. I like to have music playing on Christmas, and here are a few of my favorites. I hope you have a blessed, and relaxing day. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMYLb6O2QQ8 I have been to Cambridge, and attended a concert in the King's College Chapel. The Christmas Eve Festival …
It's December, isn't it? Normally, December is filled with parties, and lights, and presents, and snow, and song, and bells, and family celebration. This year, most of those things have been canceled. Due to government pandemic rules, Christmas concerts are not held. Normally, each year on the day after Christmas, I grab my violin and …
Continue reading Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #128: Holidays (slightly re-imagined)
This week's challenge turns out to be more difficult than I had anticipated. I had lots of subjects in mind, but then thought a little harder. With all the very upsetting things happening in our Nation this year, I have decided that, for me, the most important "A" subject must be, America. At age 71, …
Continue reading Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #126: Alphabet, Subjects beginning with the Letter “A”
Dear SRJO Board and Musicians: My husband and I, who are grateful donors and audience of Seattle Repertory Jazz Orchestra, attended today's pre-concert virtual get-together, and the (supposed to have been) live-streamed concert, and we noticed a few things. First of all, at the Zoom meeting, when you were discussing the logistics of putting on …
First of all, a favorite scene from the animated movie The Secret of Kells. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32DM5tNeHBA Next, an interesting explanation, and translation of an Old Irish Poem, about a boy and his cat. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9YijEdOIsM Enjoy! The animated movie is captivating, and should be in everyone's home library. Loved by adults and children alike.
The reaction of governments and their subjects to the Wuhan Coronavirus have been very depressing, in all ways. Few performing arts groups have been holding performances with any audience, for fear of spreading the deadly (0.13% mortality-rate, similar to seasonal flu) virus. Entire economies locked down by government edict, small businesses and their owners ruined, …
Continue reading Is this the future of classical music performance?
This past week, I was invited by the Curtis Institute of Music, one of the world's premier music conservatories, to watch a movie about the people who make bows used by string-instrument players. Specifically, the movie profiled bow makers who live right in my neck of the woods (the Pacific Northwest), in and around Port …
Continue reading What I learned from watching the movie The Bowmakers, by Ward Serrill
For this week, bloggers pick one or more of the following words, to illustrate with their photos. The words are: Growing, Crowded, Tangled, Exuberant, and Comfortable. I think I can find at least one photo that illustrates each word for the week. Let's start with Comfortable. People who are owned by a cat know that …
When I saw the topic for this week's challenge, the first thought I had was "Ooh, this one is going to be fun!". And I think it will be. I hope my readers think my choice of said objects is fun. My first two everyday objects are items that are precious to me. The first …
Continue reading Lens-Artists Challenge #111 Everyday Objects
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