64 days left...

[wiseheart]

... and today's main topic is: hobbies! You know all of mine (writing, crafting, travelling, singing in a choir), but I'd like to know more about yours. So, below are the questions in separate comments as before.

(I'll save reading/writing for another day; oh, and pets totally count!)

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[saki101.livejournal.com]

We have very similar musical tastes, although I don't know Vangelis (yet, at any rate). I love choral music, especially if I can hear it in person and I love organ music, particularly when performed in a stone building. I adore the reverberation.

I can just barely play the piano and the recorder. Since the writing bug bit me, I haven't been practicing, so I am years out of form, and the form was rather rickety to begin with. Still, it always gives me pleasure when I resume after various multi-year breaks.

I haven't sung in a choir since I was in elementary school and this is mainly because I cannot stay in tune. Nevertheless, by myself, I still sing sometimes.

Will you continue with the school choir after you retire?

Your question has made me realise that I don't have a favourite anymore and haven't had in years. I have certain favourite pieces of music that I will listen to on CD over and over when the mood strikes and will go out of my way to hear performed live. Pictures at an Exhibition is one of them and I still can't make up my mind whether I prefer the original version for piano or the orchestrated version by Ravel.

The most recent new piece of music I fell in love with was the soundtrack of series 4 of Sherlock. Wasn't keen on the episodes, as you know, but the music was wonderful, but sad.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Will you continue with the school choir after you retire?

Oh, definitely! It gives me the chance to see my collegaues twice a week - and to grin Boss Woman in the face with the same regularity.

[saki101.livejournal.com]

Oh, that will be a double pleasure, then! Much of the pleasant part of work without the stress and the other annoying bits!