More Haydn

More Haydn at the Wigmore Hall last week in the form of the first three of his Op.64 quartets given to us by the Doric Quartet. With the last Haydn being in January and noticed at reference 1, the last Doric being last November and noticed at reference 2. While today I am moved to asked Wikipedia how many there are altogether, with the answer being that it is now 68 having been whittled down from 83. I associate to the Catholic Church bearing down on the number of permitted saints. There is also a marked, but not universal, tendency to come in sixes.

Loud beneficiary of Universal Credit on the platform at Epsom. I was glad that I was not his case officer, either from a call centre or from behind a window.

The tube system and Oxford Circus was well packed, with some entertainment in the form of a young lady, Nordic or Russian blonde variety, working hard on her large black eyebrows. This following what had clearly been a lot of work on other aspects of her presentation before setting out. We wondered for what, or for what sort of, occasion.

Picnic in the Bechstein Room, where we admired the arty black and white photographs of the artists, taken over quite a long period by someone whom we eventually decided was Clive Barda of reference 3. Interesting to find that the majority of the pictures turned up by a quick peek were in full colour. Is it snobbery, age or what which makes me prefer black and white for these sort of purposes - that is to say tasteful decoration of the waiting room of (perhaps the antechamber would be more appropriate for a chamber concert) to a concert hall?

The flowers included fresias. A first.

Haydn quartets as good as we have come to expect. I would only quibble with some of the cello entries, a little too strong to my mind.

Out to some bad street music (which one could have done without, in the circumstances) and some very coarse, but otherwise unaggressive, drunks.

I pondered on the train home about whether I could devise a better rule for automatic spelling correction in OneNote than that which Microsoft have come up with for my telephone. Given that my spelling is a bit ropey, automatic correction has its points, but the vocabulary that it uses often falls short of what I need, and it sometimes seems to take it two or three goes before it decides that you do mean what you have typed. It could, I would have thought, be more context and more user sensitive. But not something worth spending many brain cycles on.

Reference 1: http://psmv3.blogspot.co.uk/2018/01/more-haydn.html.

Reference 2: http://psmv3.blogspot.co.uk/2017/11/haydn.html.

Reference 3: http://www.clivebarda.com/.