William Tell overture (we have three kettledrums), Schumann piano concerto, Villa-Lobos Sinfonietta. Featuring the astoundly talented Deborah_C on lead violin, the amazing lizzip on horn, and yours truly as assistant second oboe. Featuring one of the greatest cor amglais solos in the classical repertoire, played by someone else. It will all be fun, and some of it will be very loud indeed.
... of Rob Sawyer's, whose names have now slipped my mind. -- Sunday dinner at Montana's with maverick_weirdo , chaoticgoodchic and janmagic . (And the_sheryl , of course.) -- Getting to hear deborah_c do all of the dog-and-frozen-sweet-potato story. I'd only heard the latter part at GAFilk. Very funny stuff. And Deborah does a great job with both voices ...
... I was not wiped. Somehow that feels wrong. Friday night was “What’s My Filk?” and chaoticgoodchic “volunteered” me for the panel. The teams were Dave Rood, faxpaladin , and me vs. deborah_c , andpuff , and braider . The first category was “Minnesota Fandom” which was deadly to both teams. The second category, “Name that Band,” our team did a bit better (...
... Plunger Story (sorry, I can't tell you, you'll have to catch him next year to hear it), and deborah_c related the incident with the #&@%ing sweet potatoes. deborah_c also made waves in the open filk accompanying various songs on--well, let's call it fiddle, though where she's from they...
... roadworks) and left at dinnertime on Sunday, feeling that we should do it again some time soon, and maybe see some more of you while we are there next time. We did manage to catch up with deborah_c , Liz the knitter , and Catherine the non-blogger; and we spent lots of money in Heffers and similar. We also went to the Fitzwilliam Museum - to my shame, I think it was the first time I had...