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Apr. 4th, 2011 09:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
endlessraritiesIt's very late, I know, but I couldn't get LJ to work earlier on this evening...
A colleague of mine got a tick today. Thankfully he got the tick, before the tick got him, but it made the rest of us feel unclean and horrible. As I write this journal entry, I appear to be tick-free. Touch wood...
I arrived home this evening to find a lot of packages awaiting. I had 42 lobelia plants from a mail order plant catalogue. I had 42 petunia plants - all shades of purple and white, very showy. So the lengthy process of potting on had to begin...
The other package was my Sibelius CD. I'd had a bad dream over the weekend. I dreamt that I got the CD, and found that the Karelia Suite wasn't on it. I remember being traumatised. So traumatised that when I woke up, I pondered the matter, and concluded that perhaps the Karelia Suite wouldn't actually be on it. It was the complete collection of symphonies and tone poems - Karelia is technically an orchestral suite...
Thankfully, my dream self was leading me up the garden path. Karelia was there. But, because I was going out tonight, I didn't get a chance to hear it. But I did manage to listen to En Saga. I haven't heard it for twenty years of more - today, it haunted my thoughts constantly, a persistent and rather classy earworm that just refused to go away. It was just as marvellous as I remembered.
If you like Sibelius, and you've never heard En Saga, please check it out. You will not be disappointed. As for this CD, well. It looks like it's going to be a real cracker.
And tomorrow, I will be listening to the 2nd Symphony... Ah, bliss...
A colleague of mine got a tick today. Thankfully he got the tick, before the tick got him, but it made the rest of us feel unclean and horrible. As I write this journal entry, I appear to be tick-free. Touch wood...
I arrived home this evening to find a lot of packages awaiting. I had 42 lobelia plants from a mail order plant catalogue. I had 42 petunia plants - all shades of purple and white, very showy. So the lengthy process of potting on had to begin...
The other package was my Sibelius CD. I'd had a bad dream over the weekend. I dreamt that I got the CD, and found that the Karelia Suite wasn't on it. I remember being traumatised. So traumatised that when I woke up, I pondered the matter, and concluded that perhaps the Karelia Suite wouldn't actually be on it. It was the complete collection of symphonies and tone poems - Karelia is technically an orchestral suite...
Thankfully, my dream self was leading me up the garden path. Karelia was there. But, because I was going out tonight, I didn't get a chance to hear it. But I did manage to listen to En Saga. I haven't heard it for twenty years of more - today, it haunted my thoughts constantly, a persistent and rather classy earworm that just refused to go away. It was just as marvellous as I remembered.
If you like Sibelius, and you've never heard En Saga, please check it out. You will not be disappointed. As for this CD, well. It looks like it's going to be a real cracker.
And tomorrow, I will be listening to the 2nd Symphony... Ah, bliss...
