On the other hand, things that are definitely worth keeping include:

• Tony Barone's handwritten keyboard harmony exercises (I should probably take these out and start practicing them again.  Tony always made me transpose them into all keys, especially the ones with 5 or 6 flats and sharps.  This is something I should work on if I'm going to be ( Read more... )

In a word -- I've accepted a postdoc offer from Zvonimir Dogic's lab at Brandeis.  I'll be starting there in September.  I'm looking forward both to the work (very physics-y biophysics: looking at membranes assembled from filamentous fd viruses) as well as the chance to spend a few more years in the Boston area.  And in other good news, Jen and I ( Read more... )

I will have much more to say about it later, but right now I am looking forward to being received into the Episcopal Church by Bishop Tom Shaw in a couple of hours.

Wow -- the service at Memorial Church tomorrow got cancelled.

This is no doubt me being an old fuddy-duddy, but back in my day I don't think anything short of a nuclear bomb going off in the middle of Harvard Yard would have given UChoir the morning off.

I've really gotten bad about writing in this LJ. Maybe I'll write more if I use this as a semi-public organ log. I just had a productive lesson with Chris this evening, and perhaps I'll note down a few things here.

( Probably meaningless unless you like organ music... )

It's a bit late, but here's the "Te Deum Patrem colimus" traditionally sung from the tower of Magdalen College, Oxford:

http://www1.cpdl.org/wiki/index.php?title=Hymnus_Eucharisticus_%28Benjamin_Rogers%29&oldid=314728

There's a translation here. I've always heard this referred to as the "Hymn to the Sun," but it is a Trinitarian hymn with no ( Read more... )

I started taking organ lessons with Chris Lane, the assistant organist & choirmaster at Mem Church, over the summer, starting shortly before ESS. Between his schedule and mine, we have managed to have a grand total of three lessons together. I practice pretty regularly, generally late at night after calling it a day in the lab, and have made some ( Read more... )

I've started to think a little about what I'd like to do in the 5 full days I have (technically, Friday night to Thursday morning) I have to travel in Italy after the light scattering meeting. I'm certainly dividing my time between Florence and Rome -- indeed, while searching around, I found a steal of an air fare from Catania to Florence ( ( Read more... )

So I booked an Amtrak Guest Rewards ticket to take the overnight #66 Regional from Philly to Boston on Saturday night, as UChoir has a concert on Sunday of John Stainer's "Crucifixion." I've been on the overnight twice before; how well I sleep appears to depend on whether the other people in the car are quiet, or I'm surrounded by old ladies ( Read more... )

My first first-authored paper ever got submitted for peer review yesterday.