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Tania
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Just a cellist who tries to write about music sometimes. 🎻📚🎶
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Two posts on my blog in one year? And it's only April?! Who even am I?! (Yes, the bar is low 🤣)

By the way I have a new favourite opera 🤣
Peter Grimes at WNO: A love letter
“But he was portrayed as a villain,” insists a woman to her companion as we exit the Welsh Millennium Centre following the premiere of WNO’s new production of Peter Grimes, by Benjamin Britten. I f…
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April 12, 2025 at 9:45 AM
Felt inspired enough to write a review last night. Started tippy-tapping little notes on my phone between pieces. Autocorrect chose violence. 🤣
February 22, 2025 at 11:33 AM
I have been very effectively ticking Britten operas off of my bucket list this past year. Death in Venice and Turn of the Screw ✅, Peter Grimes upcoming in 2025 (twice because I was overenthusiastic).

Now debating whether it would be OTT to go for Albert Herring next year as it's in Manchester. 😏
November 22, 2024 at 12:28 PM
Introduce yourself with your worst feedback from school:

Hi, I’m Tania and you shouldn’t let me collect your composition work because the tutor says mine is ‘so bad I’m surprised she didn’t try to pass yours off as her own.’
Introduce yourself with your worst feedback from school:

"I don't think of you as a composer"

"You're a 12-tone composer"
Introduce yourself with your worst feedback from school:

Hi, I'm Elizabeth and "as we all know, if Elizabeth can do this than anyone can do it."
November 21, 2024 at 3:01 PM
I’m trapped at home with vertigo and consequently very dependent on food deliveries. Ordered from Tesco and didn’t get a chance to check as it was on the doorstep and the driver got back in the car as I opened the door and the vertigo makes looking in a bag on my doorstep very tricky.
November 21, 2024 at 1:38 PM
Evie has sat on my wool and bites it if I try to pull any more out. Guess I'm just sitting here for now then. 😂
November 19, 2024 at 10:18 PM
My current orchestral toxic trait is whispering 'noooooo' in the most posessed sounding manner possible when my desk partner plays through a break. I can't stop them from playing but also make myself look like the guilty party every time I do this and I can't stop! 😅
November 18, 2024 at 11:11 PM