I'm not sure words can adequately express my response to the Jordi Savall concert tonight.

I am tired and don't want to go to work tomorrow, but what're you gonna do. I've been so busy with work and gigs and Other Job lately that I haven't been updating much, but things are good. I am sloooowly trying to turn my place into something humans can live in rather than a pit of ick (hello grad school!), and it's going sloooowly, but I'm trying ( Read more... )

1. My high school chemistry teacher just lost his teaching licence over possession of child pornography ( Read more... )

Courtesy of my thesis research, I bring you a passage from the 1601 Foreword to Peri and Rinuccini's Euridice, one of the several operas on the Orpheus theme which preceded Monteverdi's (vastly superior) 1607 attempt. Peri is referring to one of his singers.

One who heard and praised her was Messer Giovan Battista Jacomelli, most excellent in ( Read more... )

After repeated prodding from my teacher, the other day I finally bought a manuscript edition of the Sonatas and Partitas for solo violin (for the non-musicians: Bach's handwriting is astonishing, but not that bad once you get used to it; go here for an example). Once I started poking around in it I was delighted to discover that some of the bowings ( Read more... )

Minimum number of pages to be written before the end of term:

14 11.

Working title, which I need to fine-tune:

"Ex-Stasis: Vision and Movement in Angels in America."

Vile puns (incl. title):2 ( Read more... )

The portions of this weekend that I didn't spend with kurrs were largely spent in rehearsal, or else in transit to or from rehearsal. I'm... very tired. But also putting together a presentation for tomorrow morning. Woohoo ( Read more... )

So, she said conversationally. The Ensemble Dialogos concert last night was mind-blowingly spectacular ( Read more... )

So the Latin exam was a total gongshow. clementia Caesaris, my aunt Fanny.

So was the English exam. I quit. (But at least it's over.)

In other news, though, I am playing in a concert with Vancouver's newest baroque group, the Baranduin Ensemble, tonight and Sunday afternoon. Info can be found here. Directions are available under the Venues link ( Read more... )

So my first exam yesterday went off acceptably, I think. I have no idea what the prof is looking for, so it's kind of hard to tell. At one point I was so bored that I was reduced to writing quotations from Julian of Norwich on my wrist, but I'm feeling kind of weepy these days, and I am fond of Julian because she's reassuring, so that's okay. On ( Read more... )