. . . you magnificent town, you. But whatever should I do?

I'm going to be in Philadelphia for the next three days and I know that there are several people here who would know a thing or two to do. Any suggestions for stuff to keep me and company occupied? Bear in mind that the company are my in-laws, so nothing too racy.

Lap kitties aren't so hot during the summer . . .
or rather, they are hot, but during the summer that's not cool . . .
um.
Yeah.

David Carradine hanged himself.

In the middle of a film shoot no less.

Crap.

So I've been composing for the last couple of weeks. Classes are out (I made mostly "A"s with a B thrown in for good measure), but I still have make-up composition lessons.

My teacher told me that I'm "too cerebral. You need to stop thinking so much about writing music and just write musicSo last week I labored on a solo cello piece. Now I need to ( Read more... )

I found this via gallo_de_pelea. I guess it's going around.

The problem with LiveJournal...we all think we are so close, but really, we know nothing about each other ( Read more... )

Why is it that once the semester is "over" I am suddenly more busy than I was during finals week?

I've needed to compose all week long, and between work and school, I can barely find the time to eat my meals, much less compose.

Well, can you?

I've been writing a cantus firmus for my counterpoint final. Actually, more specifically, I'm writing a "kyrie eleison" based on a paraphrase cantus firmus.

A little bit of history/ explanation.

Back in the good old days of music, when notation was finally introduced, the first things that were notated were the "proper" music of ( Read more... )

On the way to work, I realized that I had my phone turned off, and had thus missed Annie's calls to bring her dinner ( Read more... )

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For once, I have been on top of my day. On time to all of my classes, prepared for them (all two that actually required prep). I got something approximating a decent night's sleep, and I finally received my E-Z Pass that I ordered a couple weeks ago ( Read more... )