"There is nae
bennison like mine, I have amaist nae care."
One of Two in Two Thousand and One.
But Squirrels are just people, after all...
Photo: Paul Tankel
Flash! Motivated by Department fun run, upped training a bit and in summer of 2006 cleaned up in the 60-65 category in various shorter races. Never got up to 10K but took 2nd in a 5-miler. Anyway, "surviving is 90% of winning", as Woody should have said.
Back in 1980, with Maura Slon, as Bunthorne in Patience.
Suzanne and I were in the chorus of Pirates of Penzance last year and of The Grand Duke this year. This show was set in the 1930's in the Grand Duchy of Pfennig-Halbpfennig. Here are a few Pictures by Dave Shafer, chosen according to the stringent and sophisticated aesthetic criterion: is this a picture of us?
Suzanne and self in "Thespis", G and S's first collaboration whose music is lost (or suppressed). We were lucky enough to have a brand-new score (not a pastiche of other Sullivan songs) by Quade Winter (who came to a performance).
"Utopia Ltd."
Here I'm a low-talent ringer in a group including Suzanne (on left) and Prof. John Bennett, superior tenor. (Hochstein Chorale Concerts, HSOM June 2004 and 2005).
Classical guitar is an instrument played by socially phobic overachievers under a brutal regime of constant discipline until the results begin to approach what a guitar is truly capable of. By then, all but the best are broken men and women.-- Tim Brookes
One of my heroes, Fernando Sor. His expression of controlled good-humored disbelief, exasperation, and forebearance is doubtless typical of all guitar teachers. Luckily, in public I have many talented colleagues to do the tough bits. Here are Jim, Richard, Len, John, and myself. Photo Credit: Jim Doyle and Family.