I must confess I prefer cantatas and other smaller forms these days, because it’s hard to find time to sit through an opera, and it’s a pity to break it into pieces, even the operas with lots of “big hits”, like “Alcina” or “L’Orfeo”. It kind of breaks the inner logic and the dramatic composition of the music.
I’m also a fan of the Russian “романсы” - I don’t know the term for it in English, romances, maybe? Very lovely and rather unique.
There’s also the fact that while you can enjoy the music without paying for the concert, just standing nearby, a language course without a teacher is normally like a bowl of ingredients for a dish without the recipe. I doubt that people who will try to learn from the Memrise sets without doing the course itself in the way it’s meant to be done will get the same results.
Curry is almost never like Irish Stew except in Fawlty Towers where it is reliably so. It goes particularly well with their Waldorf salad - when Waldorfs are in season, that is,
You seem to be on food now! Or music?
Is there still a thread on reading? Please direct me @tatjana, @aran, @owainlurch or @seren or anyone! (Case in point, can’t remember how to spell ‘anyone’ in Cymraeg, too lazy to ;look it up… reading good for improving spelling!! In fact try @ramblingjohn in ‘What’s outside’ and there is loads to read!!
Ah now I understand the confusion between Irish Stew and Currry - perhaps one of them was from Ireland, the second from Madras and the third Manuel from Fawlty Towers,
They are normally just threads with advice on whether to start reading, and when to do it, and what to read, and I think it would be so great to have a thread where we could discuss different books, in Cymraeg or in Saesneg:)
