Home again. Got here on Saturday, in fact.

I really like Harry Manx's music, I discovered by listening to the CBC as I was picking Mum up from work. (Warning, link plays music.)

Harry Manx has been called an "essential link" between the music of East and West, creating musical short stories that wed the tradition of the Blues with the depth of ( Read more... )

ME: I can't figure out how to wrap my fingers around this chord ( Read more... )

Ah, it's a rainy spring day in Vancouver and I did not fall off the stage last night. (I didn't even froth at the mouth.) Does life get better than this? I think not ( Read more... )

I am: practicing ( 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... )

1. Every time, I forget just how much I hate the process of rehearsing a piece in which I am playing the solo. Hell.

2. I have a headache and am very tired.

3. Tea is good.

4. I love my mother.

EDIT: It's going to be one of those terms.

Yeah. Those ones.

Usually around this time of term I wind up posting a lot more, because I'm plastered to the computer frantically trying to either produce things from my brain or else cram them in. This time I don't have the energy for that. The basic rundown of life is that Rome is very good, I'm still sick and getting very tired of it, there's black ice outside ( Read more... )

1. Headache + stiff neck + sore throat + chills + dizziness = fever? Possibly? At least now I know what I've been fighting off for the last week ( Read more... )

I am so totally in love with my bellydance class right now.


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A couple of weeks ago I went toodling around the Guardian's arts section, which I do occasionally, and collected several links I wanted to put up, which then proceeded to sit in my inbox for days on end. But now I should be working, so here you go:

A really interesting article on Shostakovich's film music. (Incidentally, I'm reading this biography ( Read more... )