Posts Tagged “London”
Kismet: Or, an unexpected musical encounter
A couple of weeks ago I was in London for work, and one evening enjoyed a London Symphony Orchestra concert including Borodin’s second symphony. I was struck by the many twists of fate leading me to that particular moment.
A white swan event
It is said that our Northern Hemisphere ancestors were familiar only with white swans. When they sat round the fire talking about the swans they had seen, there was no need to specify the colour: The mere concept of a black swan was absurd.
However, sometimes these things are a matter of perspective. I happen to come from a land Down Under where Christmas is in summer, where mothers hop around with their young in a pouch, where spiny mammals lay eggs, and where the swans are most distinctly black. And so it was many years before I first saw a white swan.