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Walking Group One 25th April 2024
Five hardy souls collected today at Happy Valley for the first Hill Walk of the year .The temperature was cool with a North Easterly wind blowing and a hint of rain on arrival.
Off we set heading towards Russadale Quarry, spotting a Buzzard on the way.Turning into the footpath we remained sheltered from the wind all the way to the top of the hill.
The sun was out at the Quarry and a Greenshank was feeding at the edge of the Lochan. Then it was up the Peat road to the summit with spectacular views across Stenness and Harray Lochs, plus a view of the Closed Road beyond the Watch Stone. On the other side we looked over the Flow and down towards the Oil Platform and South Ronaldsay
Then it was back down after a stop for a snack and finally a walk around Happy Valley itself. The Daffodils planted by James and others were looking lovely and the Bluebells are days away from opening. Then it was on to a well deserved lunch at the Pier Cafe, having walked 4 miles and gone up 800 feet (and down again )
The next walk will be on Friday 24th May and hopefully more hills and views.
Keep moving.
Music Appreciation Group One
by Glenys - 17:37 on 18 March 2022
The current full complement of Music Group One met at Glenys’s house on Monday, 7th March, and enjoyed a very interesting and entertaining morning of music with the theme “Composers, musicians and compositions beginning with the letter ‘S’”, as listed below:
Domenico SCARLATTI, “Salve Regina”, with soloists June Anderson (soprano) and Cecilia Bartoli
(mezzo-soprano), and the Sinfonietta de Montreal conducted by Charles Dutoit;
SILENT NOON, composed by Vaughan Williams and sung by Kathleen Ferrier;
SILENT NIGHT, composed by Franz Xavier Grüber and sung by Andrea Bocelli;
Bedřich SMETANA, “Vltava” (Moldau) from his “Ma Vlast Symphonic Poems”, with the
Polish National Radio Orchestra:
Franz SCHUBERT, Trio Wanderer playing “Piano Trio No 2 in E flat major, Op 100, “Andante con moto”;
Jean SIBELIUS, “The Swan of Tuonela, Op 22, No 2, played by the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra,
conducted by Mariss Jansons;
Jean SIBELIUS, “Finlandia”, played by the BBC Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Sakari Oramo;
Franz SCHUBERT, ”‘Arpeggione’ Sonata in A minor D821”;
Franz SCHUBERT, “Litanei auf des Fest Allerseelen” (“Litany for the Feast of All Souls”), sung by
Matthias Goerne (baritone), with pianist Helmut Deutsch;
Dmitri SHOSTAKOVICH, “Romance” from “The Gadfly”, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
conducted by Riccardo Chailly;
Franz SCHUBERT, “Piano Sonata No 2 in A, D959, 3rd Movement”, played by Mitsuko Uchida;
SUNSET in the FLOW, composed by Blair Douglas and performed by:
Harp – Jessica Burton; violin – Alastair Savage; viola – Elizabeth Sullivan;
cello – Linda Hamilton; flute – David Griffith; accordion – Blair Douglas;
Alfred SCHNITTKE; “Polka” and “Tango”, played by Daniel Hope (violin) and Alexey
Botvinov (piano).
There will be no meeting in April as both Glenys and Angela will be away. The next meeting, to be held on Monday, 2nd May, will again be at Glenys’s house, and, as this letter is providing such a wealth of choices, the theme, again, will be: Composers, or compositions, beginning with the letter ‘S’.
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