photo credit: Davide Rusconi
Slowly working on this first day off.  Checked the work emails, and drank my coffee, and then hit the piano to start shifting into violin solo mode – shaping the first half of this opening phrase.  Can’t say I got too far.  Came back in the late afternoon after a micro-nap [...]

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Over the weekend and this evening, light sketch of the opening 1 minute.  Nothing very heavy, but extremely tricky in terms of time – being on two different planes – a kind of counterpoint with layered pulse.  I got it to where I think it’s working, but will leave it for [...]

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photo credit: Stepheye
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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It’s such a mistake to think that there is this thick line in life separating commercial music and art music, or that it can be contained in the confines of originality or profoundness.  What I’m getting from bending my own rules about where to draw inflences, floors me.  
With Tori, the concept album becomes lieder. [...]

Continue reading " Tori Amos – More Study "

The weekend – primarily locked down in my own writing…a life story I am sending a friend of mine.  And during this time I downloaded Rachmaninoff symphony #2 and #3.  The 2nd is the Rattle/ LA recording and it blew me away.  The slower tempo.  I could hear so much of the counterpoint – parts [...]

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The holiday time is supposed to be one massive end of year party for everyone to get together and rejoice in what knots and gifts.  However, for me, things aren’t so rejoiceful as I have started to notice more clearly that the what knots I am indulging is more an annoyance than joyful bliss.  On [...]

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Some not so interesting thoughts to jump start me for the day.  Others may find it regurgitation, but I need something to wake me.
If we can take a step back for a moment in time and consider what is good about my musical education and what is a burden.  Well, for [...]

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photo credit: Benimoto Rushed and distracted, it’s profound if I can get anything done at all this week.  From computer glitches and updates to day-life tasks, it hasn’t been easy to sit at a desk and perform some light harmony work.  When I do, it take my breath away.  Perhaps its the Bosendorfer samples I [...]

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