4.25.2005
inauspicious...
Today is the first day of classes for Trinity Term, the summer term of Oxford. Michaelmas Term is the fall term, Hilary Term is the winter term, and Trinity Term is summer term. Note the distinct absence of spring. If you have to ask, well, you haven't been to England in a while. Spring doesn't really exist in England as much as it consistently infects winter and summer - in between the bouts of winter snow and summer gorgeousness, England tends to find itself in a dump of a rainy season recognizable to Britons as spring, but to all others simply as "crappy English weather".
So it seems fair that on today, the first day of classes for Trinity Term, the weather should be rain. In fact, if you look on Weather.com, for the 10-day forecast of Oxford, United Kingdom, this is the depressing scene that you find:
Today: Light Rain; 100% chance of precip.
Tue: Light Rain; 90% chance of precip.
Wed: Light Rain; 80% chance of precip.
Thu: Rain; 60% chance of precip.
Fri: Light Rain; 60% chance of precip.
Sat: Showers; 40% chance of precip.
Sun: Mostly Cloudy; 20% chance of precip.
Mon: Showers; 30% chance of precip.
Tue: Light Rain; 60% chance of precip.
Wed: Partly Cloudy; 20% chance of precip.
Gross. I am displeased.
On a separate note, we finished our CD recording sessions with aplomb and are looking forward to hearing the CD when it is released sometime next academic year. It was entirely music from the Portuguese Renaissance, which is a lot more fun than it sounds. The orchestra stuff this term seems to be shaping up for fun, though I've been tapped to play contrabassoon. I don't mind playing contra, but I do mind lugging the darn thing up and down Oxford trying to get it from rehearsal space to rehearsal space. There aren't any instrument lockers for it, which is pathetic, on the part of the department, and it's far too heavy for the good of my spine.
Magdala will be recording two CDs this term, which will go toward our housing and airfare for our tour to Genoa. Oxford University Orchestra will be doing the Dances of Marosszek by Kodaly, the Brahms Academic Festival Overture, and Mahler 1. Oxford University Sinfonietta will be playing a suite of Gluck dances from Orfeo, Tim Ewers, "Spaces", and Stravinsky Apollon Musagete. Interesting stuff, methinks.
Anyway, that's all for now, I guess. Just, I'm really not looking forward to having to set foot outside today - the weather is just so bad. To be frank, I'm not psyched about having to set foot outside for the next ten days...
So it seems fair that on today, the first day of classes for Trinity Term, the weather should be rain. In fact, if you look on Weather.com, for the 10-day forecast of Oxford, United Kingdom, this is the depressing scene that you find:
Today: Light Rain; 100% chance of precip.
Tue: Light Rain; 90% chance of precip.
Wed: Light Rain; 80% chance of precip.
Thu: Rain; 60% chance of precip.
Fri: Light Rain; 60% chance of precip.
Sat: Showers; 40% chance of precip.
Sun: Mostly Cloudy; 20% chance of precip.
Mon: Showers; 30% chance of precip.
Tue: Light Rain; 60% chance of precip.
Wed: Partly Cloudy; 20% chance of precip.
Gross. I am displeased.
On a separate note, we finished our CD recording sessions with aplomb and are looking forward to hearing the CD when it is released sometime next academic year. It was entirely music from the Portuguese Renaissance, which is a lot more fun than it sounds. The orchestra stuff this term seems to be shaping up for fun, though I've been tapped to play contrabassoon. I don't mind playing contra, but I do mind lugging the darn thing up and down Oxford trying to get it from rehearsal space to rehearsal space. There aren't any instrument lockers for it, which is pathetic, on the part of the department, and it's far too heavy for the good of my spine.
Magdala will be recording two CDs this term, which will go toward our housing and airfare for our tour to Genoa. Oxford University Orchestra will be doing the Dances of Marosszek by Kodaly, the Brahms Academic Festival Overture, and Mahler 1. Oxford University Sinfonietta will be playing a suite of Gluck dances from Orfeo, Tim Ewers, "Spaces", and Stravinsky Apollon Musagete. Interesting stuff, methinks.
Anyway, that's all for now, I guess. Just, I'm really not looking forward to having to set foot outside today - the weather is just so bad. To be frank, I'm not psyched about having to set foot outside for the next ten days...
