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If snakes could fly..... PDF Print E-mail
Thursday, 19 May 2005
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Noisy New Flyers PDF Print E-mail
Wednesday, 11 May 2005
What a racket this morning! Not that I minded. Apparently both the wrens and the chickadees decided it was a good day for flying lessons. I didn't check but I suspect the wren family was the same one that had taken up residence in my kayak. I mostly heard them barking out their warnings and instructions. But the chickadees were like a circus act. It sounded like someone was tickling a family of munchkins. The parents flying back and forth to the several young who were doing high-wire acts of daring-do. A simple flight of 2 or 3 feet from one bouncy leaf to another would result in a miss and a fall and tumble to the next leaf only to result in a dramatic recovery on some thin twig that would bend and spring the young one off to another leaf which she would then somehow catch on the underside and spring off to yet another leaf and then a short flight to a higher branch and the whole routine would start again. All the while the parents are bringing tasty morsals and shouting encouragement. I tried to take pictures (this was all right outside my window less than 10 feet away) but I couldn't even follow their antics with the camera. Great fun, though! Wished I'd had a free disc in my recorder - the chatter was almost as good as the visuals. But I'd filled it up at a gig last week and haven't had time to off load it.
 
Trio Medieval PDF Print E-mail
Tuesday, 10 May 2005
So little time - so much to do. Just wanted to write about a things things from the weekend. Except that the weekend referred to here was several weekends ago - like maybe even over a month. I had wanted to write about the Trio Medieval concert at Duke Chapel while it was fresh in my mind and ears but so much has happened including 3 days at Merlefest (more about that later!) and I think all the bluegrass purged my mind of everything else. I do remember that hypnotic feeling of hearing these three beautiful voices in the chapel. There is not much music that works well in that room but the echoes made their three separate voices into something almost unhuman but totally soothing and beautiful. From where we sat fairly close to the front I could not tell which sound was coming from which body at any time they blended so well. I also remember the young woman sitting behind us who fidgeted with her very noisy jewelry the entire first half. At the intermission she exclaimed "I'm so bored!" and I realized she was probably a student there on class assignment. It always amazes me that many people don't know how to listen to music - that the stiller you sit and the deeper you listen the more you hear and it is all so interesting. My favorite moments where when the three voices clearly sounded like four - sometimes the fourth voice was higher than the others and sometimes it was almost a bass voice. Anyway - weeks later that's my brief music report....
 
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