SAY SO

in Christchurch Sunday to Wednesday morning -- Kristin Hollis hanging her big show 'Cat Farmer' with Felicity Milburn & Gavin Buxton -- opened Tuesday evg -- see photos on http://Tony_Green.typepad.com -- I made brief opening speech - then partied at Kristin's house -- good company good food & wine & Latin CDs -- Cubismo -- Leah Hartley & I had a good time treasure hunting in Smith's 3 floors of 2nd hand books & to my surprise records: 78s. Wednesday a.m. carried 15 of them onto the plane. Robert Radford, Angelo Roselli, Miliza Korjus, Lucrezia Bori, Lex McDonald mentioned in letter by Toss Woollaston Dunedin boy-soprano 1930s with severely unpleasant high notes singing Schubert and Brahms, early Gigli Quanto e bella & a replacement for Ponselle/Martinelli O terra addio [Aida] that Judi threw away or lost 10 years ago & more. In midst of activity in Chch txts from Stefan to say he & Zeudi won a comp in Verona -- first in rumba paso doble & jive -- & with open judging [judges show their marks] they beat favourites, ranked 50 places higher by the IDSF & won prize-money