Photo by Ben Gierig, Semperopernball. Click to enlarge.
Difficulties of one kind and another prevented your Head Trucker from making his usual Palm Sunday post yesterday, but although we are still technically in the sorrowful season of Lent, he has felt the need of something uplifting, a pleasant reminiscence of simpler, happier times to distract his thoughts from the cares and alarums of the present. The following concert worked nicely for an hour, and I recommend it to any of my truckbuddies whose feelings may also need something light and gay to dwell on for a while.
Andre Rieu and his orchestra in performance at the all-night Semperopernball in Dresden, on February 3rd of this year:
One would have liked to go to a ball, a real ball, just once - sigh. Alas, no fairy godmother with pumpkin and mice ever came.
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Best wishes for a cheery Holy Week!
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Comments are welcome, but please note: this is not a public forum but my personal blog, which nobody is forced to read. You don't like what I write, go find a blog you do like; there are millions of others to choose from. Or write your own.
Polite disagreement is one thing, but rudeness will be deleted without hesitation.