Advantages: Classic Concertos for Everybody Disadvantages: Strings only!!!no woodwind...boo!
The Four Seasons by Vivaldi
Made famous by countless car adverts and Nigel Kennedy at the Albert Hall amongst other places. This has got to the piece that all fiddle player long to play and solo in!
My first exposure to this came when I was seven, we had a hat making competition at school, the Hat Parade, and dad suggested making a musical hat and came up with the Four Seasons which was a favourite of mine as a youngster. Mum and me made the hat, which turned out to be a master piece in the end (for a 7 year old anyway!) and I won first place! I was fixed with Vivaldi for a long time after!
Even a novice in classical music would recognise some of the notation!
Vivaldi composed in Vienna, and was born 1678 and died in 1741.
In these times, most music was composed and performed by telling a story and acting and dance were very ...
Advantages: Compact, no plumbing required, good looking, powerful steaming, great coffee. Disadvantages: None to speak of
I bought a La Spaziale Mini Vivaldi from Best Coffee Beans in September 2008 after much deliberation. I was rather confused as to the difference between it and the Mini Vivaldi II but the latter is only available in the USA and I can't see any differences that would matter to most people.
The machine is great, very easy to use and produces quite effortlessly great coffee and powerful steaming when paired with my Mini Mazzer grinder.
The service from Best Coffee Beans was, and still is excellent, with the machine arriving the day after ordering.
I had some concerns prior to ordering regarding the noise made by the pump, but it is not too noisy at all.
Both machine and supplier are highly recommended. ...
Advantages: Great food, reasonable fixed price menu Disadvantages: None
On our recent trip to the Loire Valley Mr Tart and myself arrived in Tours quite late on our first night. We drove down to Tours from Paris. We were going to stop for something to eat on the way but in the end decided to make our way straight to Tours and get settled in the hotel and then find something close by. A couple of minutes from our hotel we came across this place and were really glad that we did.
LOCATION:
La Chope is located at 25 Avenue Grammont. Our hotel was on the same road so we just came across it. It is about a ten minute walk from Tours? old town. The restaurant doesn?t stand out and the sign is not particularly bright so make sure you look out for it.
THE EXPERIENCE:
La Chope (which apparently translates as the tankard) is actually a fish restaurant. I?m not really a fish person (ok, that ...
tartlette83 18.09.2009
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