Category Archives: Music

TOBOGGAN RIDE THAT COST +- ONE MILLION POUNDS

Posted on February 5, 2020 by colonialist

I am a dangerous person to be around, in that I am given to violins. The one I play most often is a run-of-the mill Suzuki: My other one, that Rhiannon has been picking up the rudiments on, is something … Continue reading →

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Blow It All

Posted on September 14, 2019 by colonialist

The Flea Market was a lot more active than last week, and after a visit to PostNet to give a correct phone number for the author, I sallied forth into it with enthusiasm. Apart from replenishing cigarette stock for Much … Continue reading →

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Notes on Music and Breakfast

Posted on August 31, 2019 by colonialist

I like going to flea market more than a store Brekkie noshables I will buy there more and more, With bananas and honey and raisins and bix All to go in with yoghurt in a perfect mix; And though half … Continue reading →

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Concerted Valentine Party

Posted on February 15, 2019 by colonialist

On 9th February I saw this competition, featuring two tickets to KwaZulu Natal Philharmonic Orchestra concert on Valentine’s Night: https://sosuterbill.com/2019/02/09/win-a-special-valentines-treat/   As may be seen, the second half featured Elgar, whose music we are both fond of, and I thought, … Continue reading →

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Prodigious Young Talent

Posted on January 23, 2019 by colonialist

A recent discovery I made last year (about eight years late) that has got me completely enthralled, is of the prodigy Alma Deutscher. Have you come across her? Born 2005, and now a concert pianist and violinist and a composer … Continue reading →

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Feeling CD and Highly Out of Sorts

Posted on January 9, 2019 by colonialist

Last evening after supper, just when I was gearing for a spot of blogging, the lights gave a pathetic flicker and died. I still don’t know whether that was a session of planned load-shedding, or a fault that got fixed … Continue reading →

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Good Buys and Fare Well at Fairs

Posted on October 10, 2018 by colonialist

My latest batch of purchases at our local flea market on Saturday found me lashing out a massive sum of R60-00 (abt $4-11) on carefully chosen CDs and DVDs.  That Frank Sinatra DVD is full of memories. It has the … Continue reading →

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Anniversary Waltz with Music

Posted on July 26, 2018 by colonialist

The words I posted on the anniversary of when Much Better Half and I met are far better as a tale of romance when accompanied by the music. As I mentioned, that had been lost in the move, and so … Continue reading →

Posted in Africa, Composition (classical), Excursions, Music, music composition, Personal Journal | Tagged , , , | 17 Comments

Night and Turning Tables, or Knights of Round Table

Posted on June 2, 2018 by colonialist

Anyone with fondness for live shows who could, by hook or by crook, have attended a performance of KickstArt’s ‘Camelot’ in Durban and didn’t, deserves a kick-start up their own bottoms delivered by themselves.  It is tragic that the run is … Continue reading →

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‘PROGRESSIVE’ MODERN MUSIC

Posted on February 25, 2018 by colonialist

  Wordle 340 No honey theme; crescendo follows gravity; Blood-shattering blues set teeth on edges; Bare discords rattle with depravity, And birds electrify so they fall off ledges. © February 2018 Colonialist.

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