It still sticks with me after a couple of days – this performance.  Maybe too much.  I couldn’t sleep Sunday night as the Ear Worms were chugging away, and eventually just stayed awake from 3 AM till dawn.  This is one reason I absolutely hate going to concerts of any kind – a composers affliction.  Still I [...]

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My weekend plans took an unexpected turn when I was given a chance to go see the Mark Morris Dance Company’s Romeo and Juliet over at Berkeley on Saturday evening.  It was so absolutely wonderful that I went back the next day and saw it again in the afternoon – nicking out on a promise [...]

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An ultra light week, as I am shifting my time allocation to better my health – taking up a sport to better augment weight reduction.  Not that I am terribly overweight – just concerned and well…bored at the routine of things around here.  Its going to be like this for a while.  Small incremental writing [...]

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After a few days away from the piano, I was back in the chair a bit twiddling with the remaining two segments of the chain – displacing intervals here and there in an effort to make it more fluid.  After about an hour., the ears and the mind needed a break, so it was time [...]

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Another fanciful evening spent practicing the forehand.  I find I am trying to drive the ball when I should be half volleying it.  Adjusted the grip a bit and am now slicing to eye level.  Still, can’t hit them all quite correctly.
Take a look at Timo Boll’s forehand drive.  This is how you “think” you [...]

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Last evening, I went back to the table tennis club to throw my hat into the ring once again to become better at this – losing to a grandmama. No problem.  My stroke is getting better, but my legs and lower back are stressed out a bit.  Hardly can walk from the stiffness, and I [...]

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A mix of materials over the weekend.  I framed out the next two segments of the melodic cycle.  Voicing still needs to be done; and then the harmony needs to be completed – completed in a way that it is not repeated from before and instills new meaning.
Played my first session of table tennis yesterday, [...]

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Stressful week,  in the sense there was much to do and little time to do it, and nothing was music related.  Composition time dwindled to a few moments here and there – harmonizing the second segment of an interval chain.  I was planning on laying out the third segment but never got [...]

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