![]() ![]() The final item I need to complete them arrived this week. Next weekend the online Cloth of Gilt event will be taking place, and I’m going to take this as my opportunity to complete my Rus’ opashen (coat). I got to make all three of the scrolls the latter two decorated in the margins with some of their clowder. It turned out to be everything an online event could hope to be.Īs part of that filmed court, a cat named Bob was given an Award of Paws, and his people were given Court Baronies. I hosted a very successful (and fun to research) Monty Python trivial contest, and sat in on a friend’s dye alchemy class. There was an amazing session led by Viscountess Moria about how Ealdormere became a kingdom. The ceremony was prerecorded outdoors, on one of the coldest days of the year, and then the rest of the day was given over to classes, games, bardic things, contests, and the like. I’ve progressed past this now, but the hoop has been shifted so it’s hard to see the whole thing.īecause we’re back in a modified lockdown, the Coronation event where I had volunteered to serve as event steward was virtual–and it actually worked out wonderfully. ![]() With some luck and diligence, it will be finished this week. My thirteenth Shostakovich embroidery is in full colour, the first to take that bold step. 2 played live.Īnd I continue to pour my gratitude into my needlework. The music has kept me going through this siege that threatens to outlast its Leningrad namesake, and revived me this past fall when I was able to hear performances of three of the symphonies (one of them twice) and Trio no. I have now heard ten of the symphonies live, along with five of the six concertos, two quartets, both trios, the quintet, the Michelangelo suite, and an assortment of other works. In April, I’d see the 5th live for the first time, and soon my dormant interest in classical music had been revived and augmented. I listened to that symphony over and over and over for about two weeks on my commute while I dove first into the history of the siege itself, but at a certain point I decided to go deeper into the music, stopping first at the familiar 5th and 10th symphonies, and within a month or two just completely immersed. It has been four years since I completed Leningrad: Siege and Symphony and took my first dive into the music of Dmitri Shostakovich. ![]()
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