Its time that my “funny moments” anecdotes included something from the percussion section. I have certainly had my fair share of flying stick moments and an assortment of other mishaps. I suspect that there are a couple of songsters at Cardiff who are still having nightmares about the close thing they had with the bouncing bomb that was my double headed bass drum mallet 😲😂
Opera
Happy (Belated) Birthday Barbra
Today’s post is inspired by the fact that the singer, Barbra Streisand, had her 78th birthday yesterday – Happy Birthday!
Danilo’s Story
As I have said before, there are many treats around on the www during this lockdown as musicians, orchestras, opera companies, theatres and much more all find themselves unable to perform as they would normally do. One of those is the Metropolitan Opera of New York who are offering a stream of an opera from their recordings each evening. Tonight it is Franz Lehar’s Die Lustige Witwe (The Merry Widow).