My life on line -IV- Strange Christmas coming!

Still the same under the rules dictated by the pandemic.

 Family gathering should not exceed six adults around the Christmas table (children can be joigning ), and for Christmas Eve there is Midnight leave! But not on Dec 31st... after Christmas we will have to be back at 8pm  and stay indoors until 6am each day... Vaccination will start soon in January first for the oldest population in Homes (I would have thought because  of the lower immune capacities of  the elderly population it would have been more efficient to vaccinate the younger population  from18years old to 59 who will not have immune deficiency like senior citizens....).

My day life is spent a lot indoors and in the courtyard (I can hardly call it"garden" though I grow roses chrysanthemum, hydrengeas laurel and all sorts of perennials I love ; I once had  blue tradescantia from Britain, and of course there are two  climbing wines which are as old as the house plus our beloved pomegranate tree... which I planted twenty years ago). All  pots and plants keep me busy as they say 'pottering' around!Maomao Mao had to leave end of Summer for Cat's paradise so there are only the two of us now.

But these days of strange atmosphere with no live performance whatsoever, shorter days, no easy transport, curfew at 8pm, I keep myself happy to communicate with my blog! (keeping always in touch with reading my Canadian blogfriend Willym, also, Thadieu  

Thadieu has become by now a true baroque expert and her blog is a vivid source of music on line! we once met because of the 'love'of the  Bulgarian mezzo whom I discovered in Paris singing along Anja Harteros : Vesselina Kasarova! for the love of her voice and mastering the art of singing I travelled to Cologne, Paris several times, Zurich and Munich where I had the pleasure of meeting Thadieu ! Smorg always keeps Vesselina's schedule  on time and knows her career well. The love of mezzo voce is really a "meeting platform".  Being on Karine Deshayes fans' group keeps me happy too: Karine Deshayes has never stopped doing concerts on line, new records issues  Radio and also participating to the defense of the careers of younger artists singers in this dreadful period for 'la culture lyrique'. She is also very present on  her facebook page, as we all have memories to share when we all were in her audience either in Paris, Toulon, Marseille, Montpellier,  Orange, Salon de Provence, and even the memorable on line Werther we shared from Moscow Tchaikovsky Concert hall where she made me cry when she sang 'Les lettres ... ' . We had it on line again on her fanpage and this is how time flies on line... music always here and there...

And of course the links I receive from the Halls I booked to, in the past years: Naples, Zurich, Paris, Dresde,  Marseille, Montpellier, Zurich, Munich, Berlin, they all keep in touch to send their online performances with no audience... unless they have briliant ideas like "l'orchestre de Montpellier"

Just to say that music is alive and keeps alive, even when depressed feelings arouse there is always music, orchestral, operas, pop, music is living and caring either for the artists or for yourself, and for the audience around even if it is your pet... they love music too !I "toured" youtube to find traces of that amazing Alcina from the TCE where both Anja Harteros and Vesselina Kasarova were sharing top roles : there used to be the entire Haendel's opera... now I  only found Vesselina'sRuggiero:(TCE 2011)

Happy memories of a splendid cast and orchestra !

And of course I still keep in touch with my youngest discovery: Composer, singer actor complete musician NO Min Woo now calling himself Minue: He offered his fans an intimate concert on line from his bedroom and gave a very heartfelt rendition of 'Smile' (the eternal moving CH. Chaplin 's tune ending Modern Times 1936....) then yesterday the same young artist did an official 'première' on line dedicating his interpretation of

'Smile' to all the hospital staff. They need to receive warm feelings from us all around the world because they are fighting for us and are at the first most exposed infectious positions in this 'war'.

Here's Minue -Santa-Claus smiling after a moving first   interpretation of "smile" ! (screenshot from the whole intimate concert where he also sang and played 'Imagine' with so many of his 'love ballads' some very sweet ones like 'first snow ' and 'Can I love you' I like so much,  he is such a good piano player too ).

Dear Santa-Claus tonight don't miss a chimney-stack ! let's hope for some warmth to all the children of this upset world, they all should smile as we did years ago when our parents were struggling with end of wold war II hardship, but we smiled I can remember those days full of Hope for the future! Let's find that kind of "Hope" now for all the children of the world!