I have not read LJ in months and months and months. I am trying to read it again now.

If I neglected to comment on something deep and meaningful that you posted, I am sorry. I'll be better about it now (I hope).

This is a special request for all the musicologists out there.  Who remembers the name and/or author of that piece about how Ruth Crawford Seeger was locked out of the founding meeting of NYMS or AMS or whatever?  I don't, but I really want to!

All three papers have drafts, citations, and bibliographies!! One of the papers requires some photocopying of some scores at the library tomorrow, and all require printing out and, in theory, editing, but I've reached a decision in re: editing. Not gonna do it ( Read more... )

Thanks to all who left suggestions on the previous post--I think I'm probably going to go with the piano quartet for one simple reason--I hate having to transpose the stupid A Clarinet line ( Read more... )

Classical music types, please pick one:

Brahms piano quartet in g minor, opus 25
Brahms clarinet trio in a minor, opus 114

You have until midnight tonight to weigh in. I have no opinion at the moment and I need to pick one to write about!

Back on track after a lousy start (see last post):

Paper #1: draft done!
Paper #2: no further progress
Paper #3: fell asleep listening to music; no further progress

But hey, Paper #1 drafted!

Exams began at 10:09 this morning. At approximately 6:30 AM, a crew began not just cutting down the tree across the street from our building, but also cutting it into tiny pieces. With very loud buzz saws. Around 7:00, I sleepily put my water bottle down on the nightstand--and missed. Water, water everywhere, but thankfully just on the outside ( Read more... )

You know, if one person, just one person does it they may think he's really sick and they won't take him. And if two people, two people do it...in harmony...they may think they're both faggots and they won't take either of them. And three people do it, three, can you imagine three people walkin' in, singin' a bar of "Alice's Restaurant" and ( Read more... )

Right now, my least favorite person in the world is Rubén Díaz Sr., state senator of New York from the Bronx. Why, you may well ask, is such a minor politician so important? Oh, just because. The man is so very homophobic that he is willing to throw out the Democratic state senate majority in order to prevent gays from getting married. The ( Read more... )

OK, so I gave in to this oh-so-fun meme. This is something I can do without turning my head [see blog post on neck pain]. Here are the first lines of 30 songs from iTunes on random, for you to guess titles and artists. A few notes first:

A. The random didn't seem to be that random. Songs often came in oddly matched pairs.
B. A surprising number of ( Read more... )