Ping pong

The British are taking credit for this, it seems

Oxford

I'm moving up in the music world here!

How London prunes its trees in the spring

Bust of Lionel Tertis at the Royal Academy

South London

It's like putting pie filling on toast

Rehearsing in other languages

...leads to sentences like "dgjfshj dhkttiogg metronome dtjnfh jvydssc blah blah blah" and the most colorful metaphor I've ever encountered in a rehearsal: "sultan of the railway"... I can only assume people in the orchestra were rushing, but who knows!

What a life!

The view