Fabulous Baroque Music

 Yesterday a group of music lovers gathered at our place to listen to Lucinda Moon on the baroque violin and Catherine Finniss on the baroque cello play pieces of music from the baroque period. Lucinda talked about how the music before this period was mainly composed of large, impressive church music somewhat stylized to keep within the boundaries of conventional societies expectations.

A  movement emerged in the 16 and 17 hundreds to give composers more freedom to be expressive of their individual feelings and emotions so a lot more ornamentation arose. It was a most delightful afternoon with everyone coming away enthralled. We also raised $400.00 for the McLarenVale hospital, thanks to Lucinda and Catherine donating their time for this fundraiser. Professional musicians spend a huge amount of time playing their instruments every day to keep in trim, musically speaking, and we appreciated the time donated so freely to give us such pleasure.

Today was a beautiful day, the Tawney frog mouths chicks  are growing quickly. We found a Willy Wagtail chick dead by the garden tap at the back of the shed.The trees seem full of squeaking chicks of some sort, wattle birds, blackbirds, greenies and they are very hard to pinpoint their voices being thrown quite a way.I have started watering the front garden today.