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| Renon on Violin |
About twice a year, if you're lucky enough, you get to hear a recital of some of the young performers in Topsham. Usually some fun songs just to enjoy some music and some food afterwards. This particular even, included with the fine classical violins and piano, we had an exceptional treat. The kids gave a recital of prose, highlighting the every day life of a medieval village. Dressed up in mock peasant garb, they spoke of glass blowing and marriages planned for the financial benefit of the parties involved, their resignation and defiance of the arranged marriage, and plans of advancement from squire to knight. The music was fun and wonderful. Adri's song was wonderfully cheeky, and Mary hit the piercing high note with her beautiful rendition of The Prayer (while Jonathan busted out the Italian! - What else do those Gerrans boys do?) But the recitation was fun, and light, and put on with sincere child-like lack of reservation, it was refreshing. The food was tasty and company could only be minimally improved on.
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| Perla and Yesenia |
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As for the pics, you get to see my recent trial on Photoshop. If you can't tell it's been shopped, then great. If you can, send me a message.
Two comments,
ReplyDelete1. I love your pictures! To my untrained eye and best intuition, they look absolutely fantastic. (That brings about an interesting question: does appreciation have to be educated? i.e., does a Ph.D. musicologist appreciate the Goldberg variations more than an infantile bach-o-phile? )
2. Home schooling seems to be getting better and better...
The last portrait is especially precious. =)
ReplyDeleteThey have the "portrait smile" down pat...
ReplyDeleteJohn,
ReplyDeleteI have been thinking about your question, and have been trying to figure out the correlation to your question. While appreciation is not required to be educated, education does provide meaning and depth that otherwise cannot be there. A simple analogy would be the appreciation of an illiterate for the letter that his 12 year old daughter wrote him. While he may appreciate the gesture as well as even the visual aesthetics of her penmanship, color of ink, and grade of paper, unless he is educated regarding the meaningfulness of the pattern of pen strokes, he cannot know the events of her day or the disclosure of contents she longs to share with him. Education doesn't provide exclusive appreciation as much as it does additional (and likely more meaningful) appreciation.
BTW, I don't think I have your email address, it's not showing up on my gmail auto-complete.
Elwyn