I've been having trouble for the past couple weeks with my top-of-staff F# through A. They've been squeaky and overblowing and generally not cooperating. I realized today that my tongue position was the culprit (or, at least, that changing my tongue position solved the problem). Tongue further back in the mouth so that the tip touches the reed =

I have always loathed the practice of grocery stores in recent years of displaying prices in the form of mathematical equations. 10 for $10, 4 for $7.00, 20 for $4.00, etc. You don't actually have to buy 10 to get the special $10 rate. You can buy 1 for $1, 2 for $2, etc ( Read more... )

Last night I went to sleep as follows ( Read more... )

I've been having some trouble with the second movement of my contrabassoon concerto. I had, for some reason, decided that the recurring bass line in the passacaglia should go D E F G A G F G# A G. However, with all the humming I'd done of the tunes that fit with it before that, everything fit really well with D E F G# A G F G A G. I've been ( Read more... )

There was just a commercial on about debt reduction. Regarding having buttloads of credit card debt, it said ( Read more... )

"The only person who ever looked good in a mullet was MacGyver."

I've been really bent out of shape recently about a bunch of stuff at my work. I think I get too emotionally invested in things like that, and I can get really fussy as a result ( Read more... )

I had a thought about conducting the other day ( Read more... )

There's a new politician/musician in town!

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/01/sarah-palins-beauty-pagea_n_130901.html

Went to the Pacific Symphony tonight for some orchestra and organ music ( Read more... )