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between a hot and a warm spot
I've had so many blogs in mind that I don't even know where to start today. But, I have decided that I am a writer and, as a writer, I intend on writing a little every single day. Really, I should amend this to say "I intend on writing a little of my thesis everyday." And I do. But blogs count too.
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Some thoughts on Marion reverence. (from a wall-to-wall with Bus Friend #2)
Bus Friend #2 and I both sing with the Victoria Choral Society. This season we're working on Dvorak's Stabat Mater and Orff's Carmina Burana. Funnily enough BF#2 found the text to Stabat Mater more troubling than Carmina Burana.
Stabat mater dolorosa juxta Crucem lacrimosa, dum pendebat Filius.
At the Cross her station keeping, stood the mournful ( Read more... ) -
PhD musings... the who and the what, and consequently, the where
People keep asking me where I want to go for my PhD. My current answer is that I really don't know. I just don't know ( Read more... ) -
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'After my instructor had taught me the hardest contrapuntal arts, he said to me: "You probably will never require to write a fugue; only, the ability to write one will give you technical self-reliance, and make everything else quite easy."'
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Redeeming Wagner and the Musical Canon.
This is certainly not going to be the first time you read about Wagner here. This fall, when I was working readings for my comprehensive exams and reading a lot of Wagner, I definitely had some blogging material, but they never materialized. I'll be working closely with some of those sources in the future, so I'm sure that there will be future ( Read more... ) -
When having it all together just isn't enough...
My first year in Victoria, I thought it was just that I was new. Everything was new and I was building a new life... it takes time. It takes energy. What I was feeling was normal, right? November's rain came and I cried over photos of Montreal in the snow and then booked a trip for reading break. That would make me feel better, right ( Read more... ) -
Candles - from an email to Prairie September 25, 2009
Every now and then my mom gets sappy about the fact that I really am on my own. She tells me that she knows I can take care of myself and that I'm capable and strong and beautiful. But then she looks at my siblings and sighs with the content of knowing that wherever Amanda goes, Jason has her best interest at heart. Sounds similar to how a ( Read more... ) -
Just when you've begun to think that I've forgotten how to post
Life has been too busy lately - so busy that it's been a little lacking on the life part. There hasn't been much time for anything but school.
And reading blogs. It's the one mini-break that I'll let myself have when I'm chained to my computer, trying to write. (Unless I've disabled my internet, but that's another story.) That and making tea, ( Read more... ) -
me, myself, & I
I find it hard to believe that most people don't talk to themselves when other aren't around. Is this seriously the case? Even people who live alone?
Um, yes, to answer your question: It's been a while. I haven't seen anyone in person since church Sunday morning. . . . maybe it's a good thing I have a lesson tomorrow morning?
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Why don't people see what is new in my works, how in them, as is found otherwise only in Beethoven, the human being visibly plays a part in the work...
~ Richard Strauss, 19 June 1949