Did you know that an octobass was an instrument? An article about how the Monreal symphony has one inspired me to learn more!
Listening to an audiobook set in Oxford inspired me to learn about Oxford.
The Banana started learning Vitali’s Chaconne in G minor, and I have started learning the accompaniment. The music just arrived, so we have literally just started, but her decision to learn this (awesome) piece led me to learn about Tomaso Vitali, a composer I was not previously familiar with, and then I learned all about how the Chaconne may or may not have actually been written by him, even though it is attributed to him.
A few weeks ago The Banana, Mr. TOF and I attended a string quartet performance, and a quartet by Shostakovich was on the program. Some of the comments made by one of the quartet members about Shostakovich’s life and music made me want to learn more. What a crazy, fear-filled life! And he still managed to be so creative and hide so many things into his music.
At the piano I’m learning a Sibelius Sonata and loving it.
I learned not to accidentally tip my lens bag upside down when one of my lenses dropped out and rolled down the street. I had to replace it with a new lens. Live and learn. I was in the middle of a photo shoot, and got out of a car where I had been a passenger and taken off my lens bag to wear my seat belt, and I didn’t realize I was holding the bag upside down.
Toddler parent brain caused me to unthinkingly place an extremely overheated cast iron pan onto the kitchen counter, and the counter melted. I learned that laminate counters can melt. Sigh.
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