by Michael Grounds I haven’t sent anything to the Diary for some time; not that nothing had happened but that nothing different has happened. Elizabeth and I have gone on with our busy lives making and enjoying music; but this month we heard the Flinders Quartet in our town’s Capitol Theatre and it’s worth writing [...]
‘Musicians Diary’
The Delights of the String Quartet
Click the title above to read the complete post. Posted on Sunday, November 1st, 2009Diary for July, 2009
Click the title above to read the complete post. Posted on Saturday, August 1st, 2009by Michael Grounds and Elizabeth Sinclair This is our first Diary for some time. We’ve had a busy happy time playing music and rehearsing, but there was nothing to write home about, or put in the Diary. We have just presented our second orchestral concert for the year, and a fine concert it was. A [...]
Diary for February 2009
Click the title above to read the complete post. Posted on Sunday, March 1st, 2009By Michael Grounds and Elizabeth Sinclair The silly season has been rather longer than usual this year. Instead of getting back into stride come February, we’ve been worrying about the dryness, the heat and the fire risk. It reached over 40 degrees on several consecutive days in early February, no weather for taking precious instruments [...]
Diary for December 2008
Click the title above to read the complete post. Posted on Sunday, February 1st, 2009By Michael Grounds and Elizabeth Sinclair A few years ago at the Castlemaine State Festival we were waiting in a basketball stadium for the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra to come onstage. Maybe fifteen minutes before time a lone bassist came on, found his place at the front corner, and began doing things on the [...]
A Bassoon Critique by Nhoj Llewop
Click the title above to read the complete post. Posted on Thursday, July 31st, 2008The Bonzer! August issue contains an innovation under, ‘Musicians Diary’ in the form of a home-produced audio excerpt. It was inserted successfully by the Bonzer! Webmaster genius, John Stevens, who then in rather cowardly manner instructed me, the Link-checker, to listen to all for checking.I handed it on to the Bonzer! Music Critic who knows [...]