Ah! Thank you, Molokov.
Yes, I think I met Daniel at one of the first showings of Troll Bridge (and it being a seriously
cold Melbourne night, I was probably shivering; I didn't know quite what to expect, and the heating, for some reason, had been turned off for the night before being turned back on as people began to troop in).
Daniel was charming, but I may have come across as incredibly nervous (which I probably was, being surrounded by people in costume and dressed as the only "straight man").
I also met Tansy, I believe, at a local Discworld expo in the heart of Melbourne, where we gathered for some tea and Discworld gaming. IIRC, we played the A-M board game. I can't remember having so much fun. Victoria, to be honest, is Discworld-starved compared to other states. It can be a bore.
Anyway, sorry to make this thread jump the rails. Allow me to right the caboose and ... theeeere we go. So,
kaffeklatsch! I can't say much that I haven't said already, except that I was absolutely
delighted -- being a performer of classical music (anything from Renaissance up to 21st century) -- to find out that some classical composers wrote songs and even entire stage plays about coffee.
Beethoven, Mozart and Chopin were famous coffee drinkers (and wrote about how much coffee helped them), but above them is the grand-daddy of all coffee-composers, J. S. Bach ... who wrote a cantata (a more-or-less short opera, named appropriately "the Coffee Cantata") about a young, vivacious woman who simply adored coffee ... and her stern father who couldn't stand it. (Yes, even then parents argued with their kids. Some things never, ever change).
And here it is (with subtitles!) Enjoy.
