It's diagnosis Friday!

'Hall is quiet tonight.

I'm going to bust out my "Professional Guide to Diseases" and try to figure out what everyone on the floor will eventually die of, based only on my perception of their current lifestyle choices.

Also. I think you have to be a citizen of Her Majesty's realm to truly appreciate the humour in this 'ABOFAL' sketch, but in it, Hugh Laurie pianofies the adagio from Holst's "Jupiter" and I melt because I sawed away at that entire piece for my high school orchestra's senior concert (and broke many bowstrings in the process.)

The Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra does it much better than I did.

Interestingly enough, Holst's seven-movement orchestral suite -- aptly titled The Planets -- was originally intended to be a piano duet.

Also interesting to note is the fact that the suite -- which includes movements for Mars, Venus, Mercury, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune -- does not feature a movement for Pluto.

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Huh. Wiki has an interesting article on Holst's "Jupiter" and its connection to British patriotism.

Well. Now that sketch makes a lot more sense.

British culture > Kate

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