W. A. Mozart - "Die Zauberflöte", K. 620
Act 2: Duett "Pa-Pa-Pa-Papagena" (Papageno, Papagena)
Huw Montague Rendall & Elisabeth Boudreault
"Wenn dann die kleinen um sie spielen,
Die Eltern gleiche Freude fühlen,
Sich ihres Ebenbildes freun.
O welch ein Glück kann grösser seyn?"
So sad to say goodbye to @SimplyFineFood This ends a line of fishmongers on these premises stretching back half a century. (And the high street loses a first-class retailer - meat and produce as well as fish.) The new business will be a café; owners hope to open before Christmas.
Remembering John Coltrane who passed on this date in 1967. In this 1951 photograph from the New York City night club Birdland, a 25-year-old John Coltrane is in the background with Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie. Photo: Michael Ochs Archives.
@CamdenCouncil The young trees in the park across Castlehaven Road from Hawley School are desperately in need of watering. I don't live nearby so I can't help.
Ah, I do like the good manners one encounters in Canada. Just now, going through airport security, the official looked at me askance. 'I know that everybody has their own style, sir,' he said gently; 'but did you realise that your t-shirt is backwards AND inside out?' Ahem...
Good morning. What a photo: Serge Rachmaninov playing the premier of his Piano Concerto No 4 with the @BerlinPhil and Bruno Walter conducting; Berlin, December 8, 1930. #music#pianists#conductors