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I had a disorganized and frustrating rehearsal last night where neither musical nor logistical concerns were handled very well. It was the kind of near-fiasco that you sometimes get in performance disciplines that brings your colleagues (your cast, your ensemble members, whatever team is enduring the nonsense together) a particular kind of ( Read more... ) -
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Hey, y'all, the TOS updates are hella shady, so I'm picking up what remains of this journal and taking it to DreamWidth, which is the same platform but open-source and not shady, with more features, at https://sanura.dreamwidth.org . The content I have here will remain up, but everything ( Read more... ) -
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I was just telling my mom the other day, in anticipation of bringing two nonmusician friends and an aunt who has sung in church choirs to the Symphony Christmas Pops she got us comps for, that "music getting me into the Christmas spirit" is not really an attribute that I contain at this point in my life. She agreed. It's a bit of a job. I've been ( Read more... ) -
Telephone poetry with extended family
I don't know if you guys know the premise of telephone poetry, but you sit in a circle and write a line, pass it to the next person, and they fold it over and write the next line, and every time you pass you fold it over so only the previous line is visible. Here are my favorite examples from this evening's exercises ( Read more... ) -
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Today is the day we leave (if we can pay all the bills and get the insurance to apply to the car), and yesterday was the day we (I) bought a car. An electric lime Prius c3. It's got enough room to put stuff in to take on a trip. It's a good car, so far. I may call it Charlotte, to go with Reggie's car George ( Read more... ) -
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The performance art piece that Eric came to Houston to participate in was a project by Susanne Bocanegra, whom I know from her connection to her husband David Lang (who wrote the Little Match Girl Passion that the chamber choir sang a couple seasons ago). Her project, held at the MFAH, was very cool; it's called Bodycast, and it is a sort of ( Read more... ) -
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Two nights in a row I have strapped a mattress to the top of Reggie's car and helped him move it to his new place. That sounds like a euphemism, but I'm not sure what for. It's just good to accomplish things with him, even if they're things anybody could do. Although I think he probably would have been too scared to put them on the roof if I hadn't ( Read more... ) -
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Well, I am glad that particular church season is over ( Read more... ) -
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A morning with Susan and Jayden, an afternoon with Joodles walking the High Line. Yesterday dinner with Joodles, Thursday with Bryan, dinner with Ben, Bryan, Trevor, and Trevor's friend Adam, late evening with Trevor. It's the best kind of college reunion up in here ( Read more... ) -
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Just had my first rehearsal with Paul Hillier. He's pretty good.