It had to be a very quick recovery. After a few days of staying at home, taking medicines and eating garlic this morning I had to be up and about and performing on a Garlick instrument, how amusing... Great music by Biber, Marini & Veracini, some Italian style and freedom, movement and passion. Then Telemann and Castello, oh how fantastic it is to be able to bring to life works of people who passed away three or four centuries ago.
What makes it the most exciting though is the fact that they works show how similar people of all centuries are. We all share the same sorrows, fears, joys, feelings, love and despair. It is like touching a pillar in a Cathedral from 13th cntury, putting your fingers in the same place where another person put them in the past that is beyond our imagination. Actually, it is better, because it is bringing those people back to life, allowing them to breathe and speak through their music.
In the evening, Kensington & Chelsea, a wonderful area, living its own luxurious life, nice and peaceful, full of beauty, perhaps only on the flawless facade masking true lives. How very Classical. A wig and a lot of white face powder. But people I met are nice, real and true.
Thursday 1 May 2008
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