the ever-so-rare entry
Things have been pretty great as of late, other than the gone-ness of sammka.
I've performed several times at the weekly Hoots, some of my works as well as some Cage [the Suite for Toy Piano a few weeks ago] and Bach [the e-mol flute sonata, 1034, with penguinkraft this past week]. Also in the mix, two misplaced Zeppelin tunes [Stairway to Heaven on the toy piano, and the Ocean on Baroque flute and bass recorder "those first two Bach movements were in four, so we've done four already but now were steady and now we'll play: 1, 2, 3, 4..."]
Today was particularly good. Before work I went to Cambridge Music to return a DVD to a gentleman that works there that I know because he shops at FK and we've had discussion about music and contemporary arts. He had lent me a DVD of Arthur Ganson's machines. It was fabulous, and I decided I would return the favor by lending him my Arthaus Music DVD of Penderecki's great opera Die Teufel von Loudun [also including a shameless self promotion CD of my music]. While wandering around their store before work, some guy asked me friend to comment on the differences between two scholarly seeming editions of the Bach 2- and 3-parts, and the guy forwarded the question on to me, which was great. It is nice having one's opinion respected, perchance I can ask him about employing my sometime. Anyway, good times.
The other great news from today is of a similar vein: music lecturing. I was at the registers informing another employee who is getting married in less than a month to NOT use the Bridal chorus from Lohengrin, an opera about the shortest, worst marriage ever. The customer next to him chortles a little and notes that he is not terribly familiar with the plot of that opera, and asks me to recount it, which I do. A woman comes up later and exclaims "OMGBEES!! That was Justice Brayer that you were lecturing about opera!" This only could have been more awesome if it happened to be Yo-Yo Ma [who also often shops at FK] that wasn't so up on his Wagner plots, who I had to instruct in music.
I've performed several times at the weekly Hoots, some of my works as well as some Cage [the Suite for Toy Piano a few weeks ago] and Bach [the e-mol flute sonata, 1034, with penguinkraft this past week]. Also in the mix, two misplaced Zeppelin tunes [Stairway to Heaven on the toy piano, and the Ocean on Baroque flute and bass recorder "those first two Bach movements were in four, so we've done four already but now were steady and now we'll play: 1, 2, 3, 4..."]
Today was particularly good. Before work I went to Cambridge Music to return a DVD to a gentleman that works there that I know because he shops at FK and we've had discussion about music and contemporary arts. He had lent me a DVD of Arthur Ganson's machines. It was fabulous, and I decided I would return the favor by lending him my Arthaus Music DVD of Penderecki's great opera Die Teufel von Loudun [also including a shameless self promotion CD of my music]. While wandering around their store before work, some guy asked me friend to comment on the differences between two scholarly seeming editions of the Bach 2- and 3-parts, and the guy forwarded the question on to me, which was great. It is nice having one's opinion respected, perchance I can ask him about employing my sometime. Anyway, good times.
The other great news from today is of a similar vein: music lecturing. I was at the registers informing another employee who is getting married in less than a month to NOT use the Bridal chorus from Lohengrin, an opera about the shortest, worst marriage ever. The customer next to him chortles a little and notes that he is not terribly familiar with the plot of that opera, and asks me to recount it, which I do. A woman comes up later and exclaims "OMGBEES!! That was Justice Brayer that you were lecturing about opera!" This only could have been more awesome if it happened to be Yo-Yo Ma [who also often shops at FK] that wasn't so up on his Wagner plots, who I had to instruct in music.