Sunday 27 December 2020

Naturam erante

Cineplex has just charged me $33 to view, within 48 hours, a National Ballet Production of The Nutcracker. From 2008. (I thought it looked familiar.) 

Compare this with the Royal Ballet, which is charging anywhere between $5 and $25 (depending on how recent the production is, so far nothing older than 2017) for viewing within three weeks. 

Oh well. I guess the National Ballet is probably in more serious trouble, and I want to encourage Cineplex to "live-stream" ("live" clearly being a relative term) more theatre and ballet, so I'll swallow my indignation and irritation and watch free stuff on YouTube. 

When the King's Singers came to Chamberfest a couple of years ago, elder daughter got every one of them to sign their latest CD for me. 

I've been a KS fan for a long time, through several personnel changes. That Christmas, two of the singers were singing their last concerts with the group. This is the latest line-up, four of whom elder daughter has met. They're singing one of my favourite Christmas pieces, "Gaudete", which dates back to the sixteenth century. They could give Steeleye Span a run for their money. It was "Gaudete" that first introduced me to Steeleye Span. Here they are, back in the days when Maddy Prior could sing very high:

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