Monthly Archives: December 2012

Happy nameday to me!

…and all other Lydias, at least the ones in Sweden and Norway. (In Latvia my nameday is January 16th.) Evidently we don’t actually celebrate such things here, though the word puzzle in today’s newspaper featured my name, and I’ve gotten a couple of nice email notes. My favorite finding on the subject: in Sweden there […]

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Winter weekend

It is now officially winter! The snow seems to make the train schedules a little erratic, though I’ve been lucky so far. Happily, the roads and paths are well cleared. On Saturday I went to Stockholm to play with Anders again (yaay!) — all layered up in case the promised 15–20°F temperatures coincided with stranding […]

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Special guest teachers

We continue to have occasional guest teachers in addition to our usual all-star lineup. Most recently: Agneta Stolpe spent a day with us to do a variety of exercises about performance preparation. The schedule only advertised her as a song teacher, which of course she is, but her work also encompasses voice training and performance […]

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