Nice to see there’s a few more moved onto LastFM. Hurrah for music indulgence.
Also hurrah for Danse Macabre. It’s sounding rather good. Spent the entire orch rehearsal today working on just that, and we’ve sorted about half of it now. I really, really like that Mr M is as particular about sound as I am. In a min I’ll be checking the Naxos Library for a recording, as I’d like to know whether the violin solo should be more separated and stilted or more long and flowy. My part’s meant to be of the puppetmaster, so perhaps it’s a bit of both.
Nice, un-unusual day besides that. Really missed Lou while she wasn’t there… but she came in at break and saved me from the doom of having a lesson with Mrs K all by myself. Mrs B’s Ovid lesson was great fun, as we were doing IV, which involved lots of cool things like expressive eyebrows and welcoming nipples, and the whole thing provided a fantastic mental image. I love those lessons. We have such a great set.
First free lunchtime since getting back to school. Ho ho ho.
Oh, and we had our first music lesson in one of the comp labs. Everything smells new, as someone pointed out. And it’s all clean too. <3 It’s really rather beautiful.
Thought I didn’t have much homework tonight, but come to think of it I have some Homer. And* I should carry on with the performance investigation too. For some reason Kreisler’s recording of Mendelssohn’s VC wouldn’t copy onto my mp3 player, while Bell’s and Vengerov’s would, which is kindof wtf. I’ll try again, as I’m realising just how similarly Bell and Vengerov seem to play the Andante. Bloody virtuosos.
*Um. I don’t know my timetable yet.
