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Edward Elgar - Introduction and Allegro for Strings. Second part, the fugue, is here. A complete, slightly cleaner, more professional version is here, but I honestly like the interpretation of the first one a little better!When I was 16, my high school orchestra played this. It was incredibly ambitious for a high school orchestra even to attempt ( Read more... )

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Please hit "play" and allow this music to run while you read this entry.

So this is pretty much my favorite piece of music right now. I think I've listened to it close to twenty times in the past few weeks. It is my background music for everything, particularly my folklore project, which is centered around the same Till Eulenspiegel named in the ( Read more... )

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So this is a video in which a deaf percussionist explains how to listen to music and then you never listen to anything the same way ever again.It's long, yeah, I know. But I have just had an outlook changed, and I am kind of still reeling. This is one of the most amazing talks about performance theory and the way in which humans listen to music ( Read more... )

So here's how this Webber thing is going to go down ( Read more... )

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There will be rest, and sure stars shining
Over the roof-tops crowned with snow,
A reign of rest, serene forgetting,
The music of stillness holy and low.

I will make this world of my devising
Out of a dream in my lonely mind.
I shall find the crystal of peace, - above me
Stars I shall find.

so beautiful. and i get to sing ( Read more... )

It's been awhile since I updated. I think because I've finally found my perfect balance of busy-ness-- with the addition of piano, cello, and choir to my schedule, I'm finally just stressed enough to be perfectly content, barring the sky falling.

( Vids and class-rambles under cut. )

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Happy Christmas to all your arses, flist. <3

( [And the bells were ringing out for Christmas Day] )

Day Seven: Four turn offs.
Day Eight: Three turn ons.
Day Nine: Two images that describe your life right now, and why.
Day Ten: One confession.

Warning: TMI under cut, but not too much TMI because lol so damn virginal.

( I WANNA SPEND ALL YOUR MONEY )

All right. I promise: This is it. This is the last stupid tl;dr taiko picspam of the semester. Yesterday was Drum Night at OSU, hosted by their 24 Seasons Malaysian Drumming Group (who are mindblowing. Mindblowing.), and it was a huge deal and hundreds of people came to see it and WE DIDN'T FUCK UP. WE DIDN'T FUCK UP. 8'DDDD And there were millions ( Read more... )

I'm only going to taiko once this week, so don't worry, this is probably the only Taikospaz you'll get for a few days. Anyway Quidditch starts this evening, so I'll probably have some epic geeking to do about that and at least the pointless rambling will be about something different. 8D ( Read more... )