The organist librarian

CThird Sunday of Easter started at Blackfriars Oxford, John Wilson at St George's cathedral. In passing noted outdoor service at Guildford cathedral with birdsong and 2 excellent  boys singing a hymn "We have a gospel to proclaim". Really enjoyed the zoom meeting with St John's folk. YouTube St John Caterham and St John Upper Norwood. Excellent sermons. Leeds cathedral with 4 priests. The road to Emmaus is so relevant right now! Cleaned the garden water features and got them running. Watched Easter day organ recital from Washington cathedral on YouTube. I have finished going through Dad's 7 volumes for my life story now I must start on my own extensive files! Started clearing photos off Liz's laptop making sure they are on external hard drives. Watched Becoming Matisse and Flemish masters.

I just thought of a word Mum used to use if she could not remember what something was called. Something like oojacapivvy.  Underwhelmed by Matisse at RA and a lot of people there including Dame Monica Mason. The Tudor portraits at the Royal Society of Antiquaries very fine especially Mary Tudor and Edward VI's hair and coronation procession.  Sakari Oramo conducted Mahler 2 with ponderous slow final movement. Where were the deep basses? Unimpressed by flutes and mezzo soloist. Good to see film of Gilbert Kaplan conducting it. Still have the page of score he gave all performers in 2005.

Swam 20. Liz went to osteopath and got painkillers from doctor. Chris finished painting back wall. To art and worked on the bottles project and showed Julie one of 6 mosaics for display. To the Globe and met Andrew Gaitskell who bought the ticket - very pleasant. Antony and Cleopatra was very well done - Cleopatra seemed very modern! Enobarbus was good. I found it a good idea to have the text open as did not always hear everything clearly! To Tate Modern to see the Matisse cutouts which are lovely. Met Pauline and Sean Kirwan. Rehearsal for confirmation went well. Liz went back to Acton and I watched programme on women in art which featured Jennifer Scott.