really should have been paying more attention, but when someone said, ‘Proms‘, you said ‘How high?’ without really enquiring too much further into the matter.
You did manage to glean that it was a Purcell concert, but you failed even to find out what was being played.
Which was probably a good thing. You have recently decided that you don’t go to enough classical concerts to waste one by repeating yourself too often and as it turned out you’d already seen this particular piece at at the Proms.
"Did you say that the oboe was an orphan...?"
I was trying to register what my eight-year-old daughter had just said to me. It was late and my mind was going through my to-do list for the next day.
“No, not an orphan, mummy. The oboe is an endangered instrument.”
Oh, right, of course, how could an oboe be an orphan that would be ridiculous. Silly me.
“The lady that teaches flute and oboe told us at assembly that the oboe is an endangered instrument in the orchestra. That’s why Lucy and I want to learn it.”
It turns out she's right. Apparently an accomplished oboist is always in demand.
