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Today is a national holiday in Italy (Liberation Day) though not one on which most people do anything in particular… and as it’s a weekend this year, it’s not even an extra day off work!
I am reading this morning about a guy who has won the top prize of £1 million on a lottery ticket, not once but twice in the last decade (despite buying only 1 ticket a week)… apparently the odds against that are about 24 trillion to one!
Yesterday was a big day for me and my brother. I went to the War Museum in Athens in the morning for the interview and my brother had a phone call with a common friend from his university faculty, a girl who studies right now in the London School of Economics. He called not only to talk about what they were up to, but to tell her he sees her more than a friend. He was denied and they will continue to be friends.
I lost my job in animation on Thursday (I have until next month) so I’m strongly considering leaving Ireland for Spain.
I was en route to buy a house while applying for a mortgage when this happened, so naturally, the deal fell off, so I’m left with nothing.
I’m 35 and I want my house. I’m sharing with literal nightmares right now and I can’t take it anymore. I’m just nervous because it’s a big move, uprooting almost a decade of living here and starting back again in Spain.
I just hope it’s better and I can find my peace.
I went to the local philharmonic yesterday night because they were going to play Dvorak’s 9th. They played three pieces in total, I didn’t even check what the two other ones were beforehand.
Turned out pretty nice, because they started with John Adams. Out of the big American postmodernists, Glass, Reich, Cage and Adams, John Adams is the only one I have never really listened to. Probably because his name is so banal, so forgettable. They played a piece by him called The Chairman Dances, I liked it. Very fun. Very in the post-war American minimalist tradition.
Then they played some violin concerto by Erich Wolfgang Kornguld. Never heard of him. It was alright. The conductor yesterday was the lead conductor of the Tampere Philharmonic, who also happens to be the same guy who accidentally swatted that million euro violin to the floor a week ago, if you saw that clip going around. I was hoping he’d do it again, but unfortunately they managed to get through without destroying any violins.
And then, the New World Symphony. Not much to say about it, it’s amazing. It must be one of the favourites for horn players, so many of its greatest and most memorable moments and melodies are given to the horns.