After a week's break from music it was sure nice to get home and pick up my cello. No lesson this week, so I've been having fun reading through music and playing mostly for fun (isn't that why I took up the cello in the first place?). Although I still am working on those interminable shifting exercises...
It's hard to play the piano after a few glasses of champagne.
We have concert dates set for the Popper Requiem...guess I need to step up practicing it.
We learned how to make tamales from a Mexican-American grandmother - wow they were good. She taught me how to make "red sauce" - here I was thinking that it was some secret recipe that took hours to make, and it took all of 5 minutes to make and was incredibly delicious...
Chinese New Year, the Year of the Rat, begins February 8th.
I'm on page 810 of 1474 pages of Vikram Seth's A Suitable Boy and am trying to finish it before I have to return it to the library.
Happy New Year!
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