Festival of the Golden Flute...

This end of week, I'm participating in the festival of the golden flute organised by the malta flute society which started today. The organised events were a competition of musicians playing works by Mro. Charles Camilleri @7 and a Jazz music concert @9.

I had my exam @ 4.20 which finished at around 4.45. Since I don't drive I thought it simpler to spend about 2 hrs looking at some shop windows rather than returning home with a minimum of 1&1/2 hr for both ways using ix-xarabank.

Well with some effort and an amazonic temperature (u fawra tal-beati) 2 hrs passed and I headed straight to St. James to attend the competition. Well 1st person I met when I went told me the greatest of news....the competition had been cancelled due to some ilness of a participant/teacher(dunno which one). Well...(you can imagine my fertile maltese language adjectives describing the situation(enclosed in my soul)). Biex mantawwalx ax j in-nghas...ha naqleb ftit al malti...skuzawni imma ek inhaffef iktar...spiccajt amilt satej ohra em..az-z***. :)

Flahhar mill ahhar jibda dal kuncert fid-9...kuncert ta veraaaa... jazz pur b'daqxej laqta passjonali... Interessanti kien il fatt li rajt il flute jigi intuzat bhala strument ta jazz..xi haga li mhux soltu narawha. Minn naha l-ohra ma nistax nifhem ghala l-attendenza ma kinitx numeruza ax it-talent ta Kris Spiteri(Piano), Fiorella Camilleri(Flute), Joe Vella(Bass) u Alex Debono(Drums) kien xi haga impekkabli specjalment ghal xi hadd li jhobb dan listil spontanju u modern. Nghid prosit kbira lis-sur Spiteri al bicca xoghol li kiteb huwa stess b'interpretazzjoni tal-genn.

Minn ghada jibdew il-masterclasses...ha naraw xinu j... wish me luck ppls...

Info about festival: http://www.di-ve.com/dive/portal/portal.jhtml?id=237354&pid=67

Music video for today, Mr. Mark Richter playing the 1st movement of BWV 1030 Sonata. (Bare in mind that Mr. Richter is not a full time flutist and hence the performance has some mistakes)

O yeahhhhhh....

Mela mela mela...exams finished finally. Phewwwww.

Next target is my flute exam later this month. I'm really enjoying my waking up at 11 everyday with no worries and everything and am looking forward for the revisiting of the various night outs we did last year. For those ppl who don't know me...well..last year me and my (coolest)peers, had this "tradition" of spending a night in various beaches in Malta, Gozo and Comino.

These nightouts all began the same but incredibly enough all ended differently. We all met near the "tal-halib" kiosk in Valletta at around 5p.m. and then headed on to Ghadira, Ghar Lapsi, Cirkewwa (for Gozo and comino). A common feature of all nightouts is that we had to take some food to cook with us but a feature unfortunately not that common was that the food didn't remain so pleasant after it was cooked. Well let me not mention the details for your digestive health.

Luckily we had the decency of taking some video clips of these nightouts cause some occasions are really not to be forgotten. This year we are organising these nightouts once again starting next friday and I'm so really eager about that.

To me...Summer is also synonymous with music. In these days i'm meeting with some guys to try and formulate some sort of good music. As regards this subject...just a note, if there happens to be a drummer and bassist(or double bassist) out there with some talent please contact me on my email, Thanks.

To conclude this blog, I have this thing constantly tickling my brain which is the fact of several Maltese "artists"..."singing" in playback....I totally HATE IT!!. In my opinion, it is an offence on the general public to be shown people just moving their lips as if nobody could mime a scrappy song like theirs!!! I think that people must be given the real substance of a capable musician with balls and not just pushing the play button on some piece of s#1t. And the thing that mostly urges me to do revenge on these "singers" is that 99.999% of the people watching them really don't know that the "artist" isn't actually singing so..Please...SAY NO TO PLAYBACK SINGING!!!

A real 360degrees artist who really is capable of performing greatly is by no doubt, Alex Britti, an Italian guy which previously was a guitarrist with an Italian band and now (these past 8 years or so) is performing solely also as a singer. Here is a clip of his video of "La Vasca" released back in 2000....



P.S. The "" used in this blog are utterly important emphasizers;)

The final showtime.

Exams nearly finished, just OOP/algorithmics remaining on Wednesday... Must say that I didn't do so bad in discrete and neither in today's OS exam.

The World cup has just started!!! YIPPIEEE!!!!......Yesterday was supposed to be a tough day howwwwwwwever....it was extremely relax. The day started @10.30 with a 30 mins flute practise after b'fast. I've got the exam in 3 weeks time hence the practise incorporation every day is a must now. Then I did about an hour studying and off to valletta for flute lesson.

After that I arrived home and surprise surprise I switched on the tv for a supposedly 15 mins tea time break and omg omg omg...the World Cup opening was on. Am I to miss it??? It happens once every 4 years??? Well surely not. After watching that another suprise surprise... the Germany vs Costa rica game...Asking myself...Am i too miss the 1st game of the 2006 World Cup????...Well surely not lofl...And I watched that also.

Soccer apart, at 8 I began studying for today's exam. I must say it was worth it not to put so much effort in studying since some lecturers are so dumb they just copy the same exam paper year after year. Next and last exam is Wednesday so...the classical phrase I am so concerned with..." U FADAL!!!!" applies...lol.

As regards music, during this final exam period I put on some U2 stuff mainly the album "Achtung Baby" released in 1991. Here I attached the video of their live in Mexico, playing the track "One" which is one of the band's most famous.

Summer is near.....

3 exams remaining...The next(discrete Maths) resulting undoubtly in a resit...i'm not so keen on formalities...hard luck for me... :\...

Well exams apart, as already stated, I'm eager for Summer. I have loads of plans on what to do...besides obviously prepare for the resits lol. On the 28th, 29th, 30th June and 1st July, a flute festival will be organised and I'm participating to some masterclasses by professional flutists.

Besides I'm supposed to attend a Networking course organised by some lecturing staff of the CSAI department from University.....I just hope it will be interesting since I have to pour around Lm320 for the whole course...

As regards music, I'm listening to The Beatles "Abbey Road", released back in 1969. It contains some great melodies, one of which is "Here Comes the Sun" which I like particularly...



That's all for today...tc ppl.

The 2nd day

Hey folks, This is my second day using this blog....Can't figure out a couple of things yet though....I'm getting a short 1 cm line under the muzikauaffarijietohra title and above the about us...however it is visible only using Firefox....duhhh...hope i'll fix it...

Days for exams' conclusion are diminishing...however not at the desired rate...(eager for summer as you might as well have noticed...:p)...You may also have noticed my constant use of "..." which i find very useful in morphing a textual context and a dialog between me and u (hope someone understands me on this)...

So you may say, muzikaandaffarijietohra, what about "muzika"?... Well all I'll be writing on will be the music i'm listening to at a particular moment, whether maltese or international and also if possible some general info about seemingly interesting venues going around in the Maltese Islands...

Time to go do some studying now.... Cirijo everyone.

Jien u naqra blogs ta hbieb u nies varji, flahhar thajjart nibda xi haga tieghi. Nispera li nsib hin nikteb regolarment. F'dan il-blog behsiebni nikteb bil Malti jew bl-Ingliz skond il burdata.