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When things Go wrong

It is early January and I am planting They are off script - a dangerous place,
bulbs. Late, I know, but the disorder of but totally safe held by relationship,
the climate removes the constraint to professionalism and responsibility.

get the planting date right. This is my Kaufmann does recover. It becomes a
microcosm, but we are living with moment of triumph not disaster.
uncertainty and confusion, day by day, So why do I tell you about this?
climate and Omicron.
I don’t often dwell on the significance of
I have always been fascinated by what the liturgical calendar but it was just
happens when things go wrong and after Christmas, we had gathered, read
people have to act outside the set familiar readings, sung carols, shared a

script. Christian celebration with the warmth

During the pandemic I have taken a of mince pies and sherry. It might not
great liking to opera and things do be with the numbers that came pre-
sometimes go wrong. If you are going to pandemic or the freedom of happier
mess up, best to do it big time So, at a times. But still we could honour one
concert at La Scala during an encore the another and move forward, the beat
German tenor Jonas Kaufmann sings marked and unchanged.

Nessun Dorma. Having been distracted In the chaos of our lives, whatever the
he sings the wrong words. He waves his circumstance, the church year has the
arms around expressing a confused ability to hold us steady. In a few
embarrassment. He looks towards the months we will move into the reflective
conductor Jochen Rieder with whom he season of Lent. Easter will come and

often works. familiar stories will be told. The sense of
What will happen? The conductor resurrection hope, speaking to us again,

smiles as if unconcerned and amused, even in the darkest times. And we will
Kaufmann will recover himself. But move on through Ascension and into
more significantly Rieder continues the Advent held safe by the pattern of our
forward movement of the music, the faith.
beat unchanged, the orchestra held Revd Sylvia Turner

together.

When things go wrong, as they sometimes will,

When the road you're trudging seems all uphill,
When the funds are low and the debts are high,
And you want to smile, but you have to sigh,
When care is pressing you down a bit -
Rest if you must, but don't you quit.

Anon

Jonas Kaufmann

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