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  1. Robert Hugill
    Possibly! I had not thought of that.
  2. Robert Hugill
    On Wednesday I was just putting some finishing touches to some tweaks to the music for Iphigenia—as well as sketching some ideas for using the music as a standalone work—when my phone went. It was Marcin. He was in Italy and had time on his hands. The airline had misplaced his cimbalom. Not lost. At least they said they knew where it was, it just wasn’t where it should be—at Turin Airport. I commented that he seemed calm about it, and he said that he was resigned, that it had happened
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    We finally managed to get away from the post-rehearsal chat, then I had to sort myself out for the bike ride: store my bag in one of Neil’s paniers and put on the spare helmet. We were off to London. Shopping and then a treat. I’d been on longish trips with Neil before, but never into London. This was an entirely new and somewhat scary experience. Neil was a good, focused and disciplined driver, but we were still exposed to all manner of idiocies from other road users. It didn’t help that
  4. Robert Hugill
    You're a bit late,alas. It was her centenary a few years ago!
  5. Robert Hugill
    Yes, Mother has aspects of my mother in the mix, whilst Anne has elements of one of my aunts!
  6. Robert Hugill
    Friday I was off to another schools’ workshop, culminating in a music theatre piece that would be premiered next year. The whole project was one of those with lots of different moving parts, so I was going to be kept busy. The journey home proved laborious, and I arrived at the flat much later than intended, feeling rather frazzled. To my surprise, Neil was talking to my neighbour Maudie. I wondered what on earth they were finding to talk about—but then Maudie could talk the hind leg off
  7. Robert Hugill
    The Watermill in Newby wasn’t quite what its name suggested. Yes, it was based around an historic watermill—but not a cutesy chocolate-box building. During the 19th century things had rather developed. The water-wheel (which still existed, evidently) was now a large metal construction, and the building looked like many other early-19th-century industrial buildings. Time had evidently not been kind to the site. Having become derelict during the post-war years, it was resurrected in the 1
  8. Robert Hugill
    Oh, her! Managed to avoid that film completely
  9. Robert Hugill
    '2026 hatchet job'?
  10. Robert Hugill
    I have visited Nancy twice and found its mix of 18th century grandeur and Art Nouveau style rather engaging, even though I wouldn't really give house room to a lot of the extravagant Art Nouveau furniture. Fun fact: a few years ago (2019), the opera house there did a rare staging of Bernard Hermann's only opera, Wuthering Heights
  11. Robert Hugill
    “Be a love and help Fenny with the tea things, will you Alex?” Evan gave me a beaming smile, but I knew that it was only an excuse to get rid of me. I had brought Neil along to see Evan again—or rather, Evan had asked when I was going to bring him for another visit. Clearly my getting tea was an excuse so that Evan could quiz Neil without me being in the room. In the kitchen, Fenny was just brewing the tea. “Thanks, Alex. If you can take that tray, I’ll bring the tea.” She
  12. Robert Hugill
    I have done all three, but none are part of regular life.
  13. Robert Hugill
    “Bummer. Fucking awful day.” Neil collapsed onto the sofa. That was courtesy of IKEA. A few weeks ago, Mother and I had made a trip, so that I now had an attractive (and affordable) sofa that turned into a bed. We had been back to IKEA since which meant I also had decent shelves. Neil had been somewhat semi-detached from this process—leafing through the catalogue and making comments about plus and minus points of the various items of furniture I had my eye on—but refusing to come with
  14. Robert Hugill
    Lucky you! It is some years since we were last there.
  15. Robert Hugill
    Met Jimmy very briefly, we were arriving and they were leaving!
  16. Robert Hugill
    I know the music, not the people. I arranged Frankie Goes To Hollywood's 'Relax' for cabaret many, many years ago.
  17. Robert Hugill
    As I had done plenty of times during my stay, we caught the train into Munich, the S-Bahn. Evidently the S stood for schnell: fast. If so, I dreaded to think what an L-Bahn—the langsam (slow) train—would be like. Still, we got off at the west end of the city centre, walking down the main shopping street and managing to divert to the cathedral (the Frauenkirche) where there was plenty to see. The interior had a remarkably clean modern feel, thanks to restoration following severe war damage.
  18. Robert Hugill
    I'm gay. Fly me. Is just one of those phrases floating around in my head! Not sure I know the 10cc song!
  19. Robert Hugill
    Over breakfast, Eva informed us that if we went to Munich that day (Sunday), the big market—the Viktualenmarkt—and its associated beer garden would not be open. Though no doubt there would be other places. We havered. But the weather was nice; ideal for a walk. And what swung it was Neil’s comment that a day just chilling would be nice, and I realised that was true. Just him and me. Eva had a map and bus timetable and told us where to eat. We were being organised. It turned into a ma
  20. Robert Hugill
    Thanks!
  21. Robert Hugill
    Is that for real!!
  22. Robert Hugill
    Dead right about the swan boat. But in the context of the story it crops up in Alex's dreams, so anything is possible. Safe to assume Neil has not heard much Wagner. Yet...
  23. Robert Hugill
    The morning of the concert was a final run-through: just Hanno and Winfried getting used to the space where they would be performing in the evening. It was a lovely space indeed. Restored (heavily) but still with the elegant bones of the 16th-century castle. They didn’t rehearse everything: just ‘topped and tailed’—and I couldn’t wait for the full performance. Just before the final, ecstatic song in the Werther cycle—the last thing before Hanno and Winfried were done that morning—I heard
  24. Robert Hugill
    All revealed on Friday!
  25. Robert Hugill
    Hanno had turned up trumps. Sternbach was a small town southwest of Munich, not far from the Starnberger See. The town was relatively compact but very well-heeled with plenty of large houses and discreetly expensive cars. It had expanded in the 1920s and 1930s (go figure), thanks in part to the regular local train services from Munich. The town centre mixed old buildings done up to an inch of their lives and all sorts of modern ones. It was prosperous and looked to be a nice place to l
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