Vivian’s other Substack: DIVERTIMENTI - MY ARCHIVE OF MUSIC
'Divertimenti' is a collection of music from the Baroque to the Romantics which have enhanced my life for decades. My choices are personal, eclectic and, according to modern views, terribly ‘elitist’. I make no excuses for that!
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No apologies whatsoever! (opens the original)
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I don’t care! I won’t apologise for today’s selection of music!I’m into my project well over my ears and it not only eats most of my time, it also somehow doesn’t lend itself to opening my musical archive.But! No matter what, somehow some melodies, some tunes will not be suppressed, and so here is today’s selection. It is a perfect tonic for tired and overloaded brain cells. It is also a wonderful antidote to some truly alien but strangely beautiful music I’ve been made to listen to recently.IR
Apologies for the long absence … (opens the original)
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This was truly a very long summer. I’ll not mention the heat - wave after wave - and shall only mention in passing that in my particular neck of the woods there was no rain, as in rain as we understand it here.There were two or three days when briefly some wet stuff appeared from the sky. There even was, unannounced by the ever watchful Met Office, one, just one brief, nearly silent thunderstorm which was over as soon as the second soft thunder fell silent.Moreover, against all the ‘shock-horro
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