April Music and other performances

This began with a visit to St Paul's Cathedral for an organ recital.  We took the grand-daughters along as it was still school holidays.  I really like some organ music - did I hear you say Bach?  This did not feature any of that tribe, but a much more modern set of 5 composers, 3 of whom I had never heard of.  

Oh dear: not a good introduction to classical music for the girls.   It did not begin well as we arrived about 10 minutes before kick-off to find the preceding service was still happening: in fact they had just got to Communion , so the concert was 20 minutes late starting.  Then the music was IMO boring and somewhat  discordant.  We threw in the towel after 4 of the works.

Potter Museum

Frances wasn't sure about this, but as we had never visited the Museum and many other things were booked out we thought it worth a try.  The Museum is in the Melbourne Uni campus, at the end of the tram lines.  The ride up was very crowded (possibly due to a game at the G) and slow but we got there in time.  The event "Untying knots in the sky"  was part of an exhibition about flowers etc.  The photo in the blurb has nothing to do with what we saw (other than there being 2 performers)!
It was hard to see, due to poor seating arrangement (and having a couple of people who were carrying a LOT of condition sit in front of us).  It was very slow movement and even having since re-read the blurb I am unsure what we saw!

The accompanying exhibition had some quite attractive works.



The tram trip back seemed much quicker.  I was astonished at the number of people around Swanston St at 8pm on a Thursday.


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