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Elaine Calder

@calderbennett.bsky.social

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Retired. Used to manage arts organizations: orchestras, theatres and an opera company, in both Canada and the US. Working on my Italian, in part by visiting Venice once or twice a year and studying at the Leonardo da Vinci Centre in Victoria, BC.

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Elaine Calder @calderbennett.bsky.social · 18h

In no time at all: Wordle 1,572 3/6*

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Elaine Calder @calderbennett.bsky.social · 19h

In Venice? I stopped at da Lele early one morning, foolishly thinking I could get a coffee. It was full of men drinking red wine.

Elaine Calder @calderbennett.bsky.social · 1d

Sometimes you go out to hear an internationally regarded pianist play Beethoven 109, 110 and 111 and you spend the evening desperate to get home and listen to Steven Osborne. www.gramophone.co.uk/review/beeth....

BEETHOVEN Piano Sonatas Opp 109-111 (Steven Osborne)

I was much looking forward to getting...

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Elaine Calder @calderbennett.bsky.social · 1d

Fine with me. A real word that required some thought. Wordle 1,571 4/6*

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Elaine Calder @calderbennett.bsky.social · 2d

I really wish I could be there. But fly to the USA? Uh, no thank you.

Elaine Calder @calderbennett.bsky.social · 2d

Same here. Wordle 1,570 4/6*

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Elaine Calder @calderbennett.bsky.social · 3d

One of Those. Wordle 1,569 X/6*

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Elaine Calder @calderbennett.bsky.social · 4d

I'm glad I'm not the only one!

Elaine Calder @calderbennett.bsky.social · 4d

What an inspired guess! On the other hand, I just plodded through to a Phew......Wordle 1,568 6/6*

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Elaine Calder @calderbennett.bsky.social · 5d

Bravo! Took me another line: Wordle 1,567 4/6*

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Elaine Calder @calderbennett.bsky.social · 5d

Wow. Lucky you and Caroline!

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Elaine Calder @calderbennett.bsky.social · 6d

Me too. But a good word. Wordle 1,566 6/6*

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Elaine Calder @calderbennett.bsky.social · 7d

Ta da! Wordle 1,565 2/6*

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Elaine Calder @calderbennett.bsky.social · 8d

Went out on an unlikely limb at line 4, but still got there. Wordle 1,564 5/6*

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Elaine Calder @calderbennett.bsky.social · 9d

That's more like it, NYT! Wordle 1,563 4/6*

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Elaine Calder @calderbennett.bsky.social · 10d

Very silly word. And a broken streak. Wordle 1,562 X/6*

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Elaine Calder @calderbennett.bsky.social · 11d

Agreed. Wordle 1,561 5/6*

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Elaine Calder @calderbennett.bsky.social · 12d

I'll check. Jerry Ubysz has been sending me articles.

Elaine Calder @calderbennett.bsky.social · 12d

It's too bad that after the many years of often inspired and always intelligent leadership of Fortunato Ortombina,that things at Teatro La Fenice have become more than a bit operatic of late:
lhttps://lespresso.it/c/cultura/2025/9/26/beatrice-venezi-teatro-fenice-venezia-protesta-orchestra/57196

L’orchestra della Fenice contro la nomina di Beatrice Venezi: “Non ha il curriculum, chiediamo la revoca”

Il comunicato degli orchestrali attacca il sovrintendente Colabianchi: “Modalità irricevibili. Venezi non all’altezza della storia della Fenice”. Nel frattempo

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Elaine Calder @calderbennett.bsky.social · 12d

Just lucky: Wordle 1,560 3/6*

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Elaine Calder @calderbennett.bsky.social · 13d

When a friend is over the moon twice and you can't share his news yet, but you know what you'll be doing, and where, in the month after your 80th birthday, well, sometimes there's hope and happiness in this increasingly depressing world.

Elaine Calder @calderbennett.bsky.social · 13d

Good day for my starting word: Wordle 1,559 3/6*

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Elaine Calder @calderbennett.bsky.social · 14d

There's absolutely nothing wrong with buying supermarket grilled chicken. (Here we call it barbecued.) And I read somewhere it's usually cheaper than buying and grilling your own. So it's not cheating, it's being smart.

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Elaine Calder @calderbennett.bsky.social · 14d

I was surprised to get it in 4. Wordle 1,558 4/6*

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Elaine Calder @calderbennett.bsky.social · 15d

From a similar start, my second line guess was a great help. Wordle 1,557 4/6*

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