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June 21, 2010
It is what it is
Well, we finished the Mozart recording in a couple of days, with Andy Havill putting in a great performance, along with the Pawel on sound. We also had the film crew in one morning, producing a little video for youtube which will be out soon. (I was three hours in make-up. I was the opposite of Spock. They were trying to make my ears less pointy.)
Did you know that Mozart found it so hard to find work that for a while, he took to composing music for a clock maker; music played on tinny little pipes inside the clock. It sounded really terrible, and something of a come down for the genius who'd written for orchestras and choirs across Europe. But it paid a little money to a man in debt to most of the people he knew.
On Saturday, I was speaking at 'The Tree of Life' festival in Silsoe, Bedforshsire. Silsoe is an ancient little village, but miles from anywhere, apart from fields, and the organisers struggled to attract the crowds they hoped for. The publicity suggested it was the biggest event in the world, but the reality was something different. Whatever the throng were doing that day, they weren't doing it anywhere near Silsoe.
Punters were outnumbered by stall holders, who included among their ranks a remarkable number of palm readers, under-employed and twiddling their thumbs - instead of someone elses.
I enjoyed my time with the little group that came to keep me company, however. Whatever the circumstances, people are people are people; and all of life, however diminsihed in appearance, quite perfect.
'It is what it is' as people kept telling the depressed organisers, in a kindly fashion.
Posted by Mr Bojangles at June 21, 2010 04:47 PM