The oboe solo at the beginning of the funeral march is like a face in the crowd. It’s a very personalized and very interior expression of grief within a public ceremony. It’s a modern solo in that it has tremendous psychological dimension to it. It’s very introspective and fraught with all kinds of anxiety and [...]
Archive of entries posted on 6th November 2006
My Space
I found this blog entry of David H. Thomas interesting. And of course I have to laugh at some of what he says, since we’ve all seen things like this happen. As for me and my space: I wear progressive lenses, so my stand has to be “just so”. I need a bit of room, [...]
Catch Up Day
Today is the day I attempt to get all the things done that I should have been doing over the past week. The first load of laundry is in. I’ve done a bit of shopping (although of course I realized I forgot something … even though it was written on the list). The car has [...]