JANUARY is the month
of the Murray River International Music
Festival, a week of
classical music].
String quartets, baroque, sopranos, a lot of
musicians come from
Italy, organised by stefano's older brother Sergio
who's a concert pianist.
They've asked me to take photos for them in exchange for free admission. Tuesday night was the opening at the magnificent Ampelon gardens.
I'd taken about 50 shots - people who were attending, the first act, two Italian classical guitarists. nice soft evening light. Then i lost the whole lot - somehow they just got wiped, no idea why. My stomach just turned over when i saw the 'no image' sign on my screen. :0{
Nothing i could do about it, i took the rest of the evening and they were fine but i've chucked that SD card.
It was a beautiful balmy night, cicadas and crickets and a kookaburra competing with the musicians, everyone takes a picnic. Lovely
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| Stefano's gorgeous son Domenico introduced the evening |
WEDNESDAY - a walk across the golfcourse to get the paper. the grass parrots and ducks were out in big numbers :0) It's still damn hot but the mornings are OK.
A pretty warm day at home after a few spots of rain, just enough to create humidity which means my evaporative cooler struggles a bit. I worked on swan lake, it's coming along :0)
A quiet night, didn't do the music festival tonight
THURSDAY I thought the car was due for a service today but when i drove down found it was next week, so i had a leisurely coffee and xword at artback. no walk. Tamina came to clear the cups from our table, multi coloured cups and saucers, i said 'hold it right there while i take a pic' and next thing i now they've overbalanced and smashed all over the footpath :-O
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lt looks like anne's comforting a distressed tamina but actually they were both
about to burst out laughing
TONIGHTS music festival program was just down the road from the art vault so i met sonja for a drink, took some pics of resident printmaker michael kempson from sydney uni and then attended a sublime performance of accordion and recorder, the sounds they came up with were transporting, i loved it. charismatic performers too
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name of performers
DRIVING BACK from mildura yesterday i passed lake hawthorne and it's teeming with black swans. I'll have to find out how to get down there, it was all fenced off with padlocked gates on the road i was on. but i'm sure i can go in another way and walk around. must try.
AFTER A BUSY morning printing then digging a few holes while the ground's still soft, i fell in a heap. Sat out on the riverbank for a while and watched the pelicans while chatting to denise.
AFTER THE CRAZY STORM on friday, the ground is amazingly soft and spongy underfoot, water on the ground everywhere - it's such a novelty.
