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It’s been a while since I’ve been motivated to write anything here regarding music.  Part of this sleep has been the transition and imbalance in my mind on what I want to do with music in general – which I believe I have indicated well enough with my most recent rants and regurgitations.  Another [...]

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I was transfixed by an incredible documentary on PBS the other night.  I highly recommend Inheritance. I walked into the room and started to watch it while it was already on, and stood for about 45 minutes breathless.  Incredible film about survivors of the holocaust and children of the perpetrators that caused it.  Here, two agree to meet, [...]

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Though time has been short, I’ve had a few moments to get intrigued once again by one of my side interests – the history of the Early Christianity.  I might have mentioned before, that to study western civilization and understand it, you need to study Christianity historically as well – whether you are religious or [...]

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Sitting in the waiting room of the Subaru dealer while I received an oil change, I was reading an old Smithsonian which had some letters of Vincent Van Gogh.  I was floored by the reading and shocked that I knew nothing about them at all, or knew they existed.  The oil [...]

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Good working session last evening, pencil in hand. Outlining main opening theme. Still a lot more to do with it. Have a general sense of where it should go and how it should grow and masquerade the pitch centers. Think I might write this in open score – in my world [...]

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I’ve been playing around with the Korngold this week mostly – score in hand having finally arrived via post.
What am I finding? Well, for one – the orchestration seems to me to have elements that are unnecessary. For example, secondary solos and other activity that you can’t possibly hear given all the else [...]

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Yes almost home free…one more genius movement to go…more comments tomorrow…
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Ahhh…half way there…Lets go see how Hilary pulls off that Adagio….
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