Handouts are finished for "Stories In The Solar" class for Noisemakers. This will be an experiment in creating a portable space for performers and audience members to be in the same room to rehearse / perform, study / learn, or watch / listen. If this one works I will create a companion class called "Songs (Solos?) In The Solar" for solo music- ( Read more... )

I will celebrate
The completion of a task
I had set myself.
Tales which Shakespeare found antique
Have a chance to live once more.

I finished mapping (as much as possible) online copies of most of the items from the reperteroire / library of one Captain Cox, mason of Coventry, as recounted by one Robert Laneham, and located (mostly) in manuscript ( Read more... )

I don't know how often stringlady comes to LJ any more, but elsewhere, she has announced a new cooking blog, on its own website.

For those on Facebook:   https://www.facebook.com/inhabitedkitchen

For those not on Facebook:   http://www.inhabitedkitchen.com/Home-cooked food from mostly local / fresh ingredients, and hints for pre-cooking some mix-and- ( Read more... )

( Performer stuff... )

( Pastimes with good company... )

That Yes-No thing is very long. Begging my friends to use LJ-cuts for this. For the love of God, you've got me outnumbered...

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--There is a chance that I missed the obvious in my research, in that I neglected to download public-domain copies of things I found before, like the 79 Black-letter ballads, etc.     However, I remedied that tonight ( Read more... )

Resonet in Laudibus (Jacob Handl / Jacob Gallus arr ( Read more... )

“I WILL LIVE IN THE PAST, THE PRESENT, AND THE FUTURE”

I woke to the buzz of an electronic alarm.    The flip of a switch,   several hours earlier,  provided me with a private supply of hot water sufficient for a shower.      All the water for ablutions and drinking was available at the turn of one of three taps connected to water pipes.    A cold ( Read more... )

...but literally.

"Sandy" is a misnomer.    "Sandusky"  "MALisSande"  "Sandstorm" would be more like it.

Current predictions prompted Cuomo to shut down the MTA service as of 7 pm.     Bloomburg ordered a mandatory evacuation of "zone A"  (New and Improved!   With ROCKAWAYS!)   for today.    Earlier predictions put the worst of the storm starting ( Read more... )