Symphony ~
Ma,
Andris Nelsons is conductor of Boston Symphony Orchestra, from Latvia -
https://andrisnelsons.com/ + their playing Beethoven and Iman Habibi this weekend ... What a career to bring together a season's program - +PLANNED CONDUCTED PLAYED FLAWLESSLY - years in advance :)
Love, Scott
Blog's DAILY writings are spur of the moment, often from emails that day these days
Choral Music !
Blog is not symphonic music but creative idea wise :)
Am not sure how symphonic music will develop in a realistic virtual earth for music yet -
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Ma,
Here's the #RealisticVirtualEarthForMusic #HashTag - https://twitter.com/hashtag/RealisticVirtualEarthForMusic?src=hashtag_click
They're playing Beethoven and Iman Habibi ... and Debussy ... (old and new compositions, diverse too! since Habibi is Canadian-Iranian ...) this weekend
FEB 18 2021 THURSDAY, 12:00 PM
Music in Changing Times: The Spirit of Beethoven
Iman Habibi, Beethoven and Debussy
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Online
Watch the video here
Available February 18 - March 20
https://www.bso.org/Performance/Detail/113061
Appears to be just about over ... if it started at 12 noon Eastern Time today ...
... interesting to see how this works in the Covid-19 pandemic time too for the BSO ...
More about Habibi's Jeder Baum Spricht ...
Love, Scott
(Just received an email from Navin Doshi regarding the energy bill ... it's curious, since I'm paying rent ... but could have implications too for moving out, and even back to Canyon, somehow, - and now also having heard from Ed last night ... am wondering with this email and what Ed said on his birthday walk about how Kaiser Permanente thinks about psychiatry ... with the 3 SSSs - Stress, Sleep, Sexuaiity ... with very little family therapy too, for example, or psychotherapy I think, ... what role this place where I'm living could play in the illegal sex trade even in the SF Bay Area, and whether my moving back to Canyon, and into 670A Ridgecrest, could stop the illegal sex trade, for example, with minors and innocents as victims ???????)
May seek to turn off the heat at night here for the foreseeable future too ... re Navin's email (since I am paying 1875 per month, and who knows who was living here before - if anyone - such that the energy bill that he shared appears to have doubled ... and he mentions the word as typo 'cop up' in his email ... not sure what this means either ... more to think about ... )
and also regarding whom else may be reading these emails in my account, for example ...
Again, as I emailed you last night from the UU Church:
"Am out on walk now 1.8 miles away before heading home, and it's almost dark with a beautiful orange band of light to the west over Marin :)
Am not sure whether I'll hike with Ed this weekend or next or when. (And I'm not sure either why Mr. Maz asked me in email (which I forwarded to you too) whether you had sold 319 Juniata a few weeks ago - it means for one the Mazs might be thinking about my next abode ... And could there even be a schedule federal authorities are working on regarding cleaning up Canyon somehow?) I'll reach out to Navin D toward the end of the month about either exploring extending the lease another 6 months, - or perhaps even not having to pay last month's rent at Arlington for March (since I paid it in the deposit) ... And who knows what ownership arrangements for me might somehow emerge in Canyon even regarding the state of California "cleaning it up" somehow? (A small mortgage, or none?) A kind of reward for starting WUaS's both wings??? If not ... Perhaps staying on Arlington will be possible!
HOPING, Ma, you have a good weekend! What are you planning? Do you have any music plans in particular?
Sending love, Scott"
Hoping you have a good weekend, Ma! What are you up to? Sending love, Scott
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- Scott MacLeod
How best to add such to
Symphony_Orchestra_at_World_University_and_School
so that also people could make music with ... even ... thanks to the internet ... and ... :)?
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Ma,
Were I somehow to move back into Canyon where I was before, in that 3 dwelling house, energy bills would probably be ginormous! And so would have to probably rent out, if I were in a position to do so, the other 2 dwellings to cover the energy bills ... Rental income, as well as house ownership, could be good ... but high energy bills wouldn't necessarily be good, although having electricity etc is good :)
Love, Scott
Brainstorming-wise, could I turn the shop hypothetically into a Symphony space with developing multimedia on the walls, with lovely wooden floor, and also for Lego robotics, and a Yoga Hall ... very colorfully too ... and for chamber music ... and a realistic virtual earth laboratory with digital projections of Google Street View with time slider into 4D or 10D or million-D into the middle of the space ... and secure too??
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Ma,
I have a fairly recent election that in Pittsburgh, it's possible to get houses through the state of Pennsylvania, or Allegheny County or similar, that have for some reason come into the state's or the city's ownership, and that these could be quite inexpensive, but in various states of repair, sometimes derelict or similar. I wonder if the place in Canyon at 670 Ridgecrest could somehow be in a similar position, but it's actually in pretty good shape (and someone named Travis, a RN nurse started living in mentally ill landlord's place 9-12 months before I moved out, who could be an interpreter to the state of the unwell owners' thinking with regard with what might come next if they are somehow being evicted by the state for criminal reasons for example - all very speculatively ... but could be good to have someone on the ground in communication with Ed even, for example) ... On the other hand, if this isn't the case, staying here some months longer still seems possible ???? ... but where to abide after that, I wonder?
Love, Scott
Generating great socialness in Canyon is another interesting question ... and in Zoom video conferencing in a souped up multimedia laboratory (for virtual medical schools and teaching hospitals too!!!!) in the shop there at 670 (hypothetically), so virtually even, in part?
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Hi Ma,
It's very nice to talk with you, and thanks for the 'check in' regarding our talks, - and also re my actual-virtual Harbin project, and checking in at the gate there regularly, and writing the big "Naked Harbin Ethnography" book esp.
Waiting to hear about either extending the lease or possibly moving back into a 'cleaned up' Canyon, in a few emails to both Navin and Ed. :) California's a very curious place in some of these regards, and regarding law breaking and scoff laws - and by lawyers, Canyonites, landlords, MDs???, police, and many ... If by some way, I could come into house ownership out of all these mistakes, and even in the name of protecting kids against criminals like previous mentally ill landlords - this could be good. Staying tuned. What are your thoughts about this? Talk with you over the weekend in particular.
Hope you have a good weekend and talk with you soon.
Lesson went pretty well, and we'll carry on when Taylor is in Georgia, next time.
Sending love, Scott
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Hi Ma,
Glad to have heard back from Navin to me (and to Ed) just now, and regarding in some ways my living in a "safe house" here, and being safe from Canyon -
Mr. Scott,
Thanks for your several emails. We will definitely consider to extend your lease for six months, or even one year.
Presently, I need some rest.
Navin
Ma, thanks for suggesting asking Navin about this ... love you much!
Love, Scott
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Ma,
Nice to talk to you last night. You sounded busy :)
Although Navin's message now gives me a possible 6 or 12 month fallback too - and even regarding possibly moving back to Canyon at the end of March ... am glad too that Jim Spohrer (a head at IBM, a colleague, MIT & Yale graduate, and good too re service science philosophy, with SOME UU roots ... & here's Jim's Twitter
https://twitter.com/JimSpohrer/status/1359615301780860930?s=19) knows Ellin Barrett in Canyon (whose been there for decades, and is good too) who is a former IBMer, as is her brother Neale Barrett (whom I've never met) ... so 3 IBMers as network for sharing info. Both could be knowledgeable informants for Jim's protective and sensibly smart thinking re my moving back (re bad behavior there for ex) into Canyon.
Symphonies ... Would stay away from some of their narratives regarding morality I think ... But where to look toward and learn in these regards ? ... Glad perhaps too that laws are probably advancing in all 200 countries in a time of coronavirus Covid 19 pandemic ... And potentially to protect people too from viral MEMES (cultural replicating units - or culture or sub-cultures themselves ) ... Partly through isolation or self-quarantines ... As curious as this might be for organizing ethical behavior (re in case of emergency bio terrorism or warfare scenarios re morality too ...) ... It's amazing what horrible things people have done to each other historically, where ethical and moral systems haven't worked ... and could do to each other ... And perhaps we'll learn new forms of morality or ethics or even religion out of this covid-19 pandemic genetic time.
Will seek some presents for Ed today, ... ... ... as I continue to circulate too seeking a life partner
Love, Scott
Some ethics in all of these ~
Golden rule? (George's thinking ... And which we talked about a bit ...)
UU and Quaker / non-theist Friends' good or great ethics too?
And then how to handle bad ethics and actions in life too ~ and re culture? Psychiatry ... Health organizations hopefully like KP for example ... Looking to other cultures and coming into conversation there (I learn from Germany in these regards, both mistakes and good thinking, societally and realistically too - they seem to further develop with a moral center that may have been absent in the USA in the last 4 years ...)
Or how to transform cultures with awful ethics into good cultures or even flourishing ones?
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good afternoon, Ma,
What are you up to today, and this weekend? And how are you doing?
Just checked mail in Canyon - got mailing from Kaiser that
"From the doctor's office to your living room ...
We're here when you need care."
Good to know re health coverage ... And interesting re KP and telemedicine ... And even WUaS teaching hospitals ...
Heading out for possible gift seeking too for Ed's birthday ... And errands ...
Valle Vista Staging Area where I'm now is green and natural ... Nice
May take an hour walk after I get back ... But maybe here too now
6 months was the time frame Navin suggested when he mentioned 2 months' until lease is up. 10/1/20- 3/31/21 ... (Thought it might have been 7 months which would have been Curious ... And interesting ... Just emailed him asking if we could talk at end of month re what's next ... Extension of lease or no more rent to pay :) ... Went to bed late re - - and woke up early ... may sleep early maybe tonight.
Any live online music for you this weekend?
Love, Scott
California is cool in many ways - :)
Santa Cruz, California 2014
Photos -
However, this article furthers my covid-19 epidemic skepticism ...
People swimming in Ganges?:
Coronavirus spread
India a mystery-the infection plummets: "Unexpected"
Feared millions dead - instead, everyday life has returned.
Hindus bathe in river Ganges during religious festival "Magh Mela" #IndiaWUaS
;)
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Sounds great about extending your lease. Glad you can stay on. Keep it simple. No explanations necessary.
Love, Ma
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Hi Ma,
Thanks so much for the heads' up and your information sharing. Glad you have some knowledge about this too.
I'll seek to stay on here then.
I have a recollection about some Brodericks from Pittsburgh - and particularly of a man with a big beard. (Could they even be Symphony friends there too of yours?). Here's a video - Student Voices: Amanda Broderick -
https://youtu.be/2I43GIhKl1E Do you know the Brodericks by any chance?
Love, Scott
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Ma,
Do you happen to know the Bs, Amanda's mother and father?, by any chance - and through Symphony, UUs, or similar?
Could this be her father (not whom I might remember)
Origin. Meaning. Welsh: "son of Rhydderch"; Irish: "descendant of Bruadar"; "Brother" Old Norse: "Blood Brother" or "Ginger brother" Broderick is a surname of early medieval English origin and subsequently the Anglicised versions of names of Irish and Welsh origin.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BroderickAmanda's mouth reminds me a little of Iona Lane's mouth (whom I know of through Twitter)
Iona Lane
@IonaLaneMusic
New music coming soon! / Northern lass / Folk before blokes / Festival Team at
@LancasterJazz
/ Ceilidh Caller in
@Groovy_Goose_
Leedsionalane.comJoined June 2012
https://twitter.com/IonaLaneMusicIona (with Scots' name) is from the Lake District of England, and is producing her debut album, and I think is inspired by folk music too from the 1960s and 70s in becoming a songwriter and musician.
Iona seems pretty interested in traditional music, and is somehow traditional (out of the '60s somehow too) in a British sense
... and is Amanda somehow old fashioned (and even in a George Alexander MD sense ... and John Alexander MD too ... where Amanda is at Duke presently ... )?
Am not sure about Amanda, but she's attractive initially ... :) What do you think? And re my life partner seeking and thinking? ... In writing ? :)
Hoping you have a great weekend ... And hi from the garden patio on a clear GG Bridge day
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Love, Scott
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I just saw that Audubon is near Philadelphia (and even re George's Audubon bird prints, that she's not from Pgh lessens the chance you might know the Brodericks :)
Love, Scott
(Networks are interesting and re seeking a partner, and learning how they work takes time ... And I teach a course on the Network Society and IT ... A bit different but there's some overlap :)
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Ma,
When I search on William Broderick, Audubon, PA, I curiously get in Google Search "VISITATION - Blessed Virgin Mary Church" as first image suggesting that Amanda could be Catholic, and not of Protestant heritage or background ... which makes me a bit wary of Amanda ... what could visitation here mean? Am not seeking a life partner who is universally open (re Catholicism???) to visitations, for example! And I don't see a picture for anyone. She's far, anyway ...
And I heard back from my landlord Navin further, just now, and he's further flexible about extending the lease 3 months or 12 months, and to talk about this toward the end of the month ... Good to learn, and regarding his last sentence "We wish you all the best for whatever decision you will have to take at the end of this month." Could he know of something, and even regarding federal authorities (Pin, Pat, Tim, et al????) about my making a decision at the end of the month even to take the Canyon house, I wonder? Am waiting and will see what I learn in the next few days :)
Thank you too for your ongoing thinking and emails, Ma!
Love, Scott
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- Scott MacLeod
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Hi Ma,
As a Friend / friend, who values simplicity - and re your 'keep it simple' twice recently - management questions could be part of this focus, and see my email just now to Navin in some of these regards, and regarding keeping energy bills 'simple' or at least low too! Navin's a pretty good manager and landlord and communicator ... and I learn a lot from him re even being a possible landlord. Thoughts, Ma? :)
It's the travel aspect of heading to symphony - and to a lovely hall too - (or to Harbin or to Stanford) that's so nice, and yet not possible in SF Bay these days ... if one could 'pipe' lovely symphony into a laboratory in Canyon, would I head there for the music sans travel? Another way of asking Actual-Virtual Harbin project questions, Ma! :) Traveling is a key aspect of tourism ... and if one could walk on the Pacific Crest Trail in digital mask on a local trail around , or in laboratory in Canyon on step master, or at home on an elliptical machine (treadmill), is this travel too? :)
Love, Scott
HI Navin,
Thanks again for your email. I shut off the heater radiator on wheels that you put in your suite originally for use, again last night. A new energy-efficient heater for the next tenant - would this make sense? And I have been shutting off my computer laptop most nights, but will start to do so every night now. All other appliances and lights are off at night anyway - including smart TV. (And no light bulbs have gone out while I've been here, although there was one missing in the kitchen from the beginning, - but it seems that energy-efficient bulbs could be another step here to lowering the energy bill for your second dwelling when it's occupied for months on end continually ? - and for your next renter, and when some existing bulbs go out? All the odd size fixtures however can make finding energy-efficient bulbs a bit of a challenge)
Thanks again (6 months later) for your flexibility on the lease looking ahead - a lease for 3 months or a year could work also. Talk to you around March 1 about all of this further ... A beautiful house in Canyon with 1.5 acres ... even with complexity ... especially if it might also end possible law breaking, creation of victims, and crimes there into the future (especially with federal authorities' support, in addition to California law enforcement support ... since I had called the police twice around last August about law-breaking into my former place by the former unwell mentally ill landlord) ... could be an opportunity!
Sounds good re security deposit arrangement. If for some reason, I am able to move back into Canyon 94516, after one of these time periods - and when I begin the move back - I might even explore asking if Jesus or his friends could do the move for me this time, and explore too whether he knows of someone who could clean your "beachy basement bungalow" place to the way it was when I moved in too. It would be interesting too, re Jesus, if he and friends were interested in more yard work, and handymen carpentry work, for them to possibly see 670 Ridgecrest in Canyon itself, - if they might be interested in yard and garden etc. work there too in the future. What do you think about this?
Thank you, Navin! I learn a lot about how to become a potential landlord in communication with you too! Thank you. And I might have to also learn further about how to manage and bring down energy bills in Canyon too! :)
Thank you too for your "We wish you all the best for whatever decision you will have to take at end of this month," and I wish you and Mrs. Doshi all the best as well.
Kind regards, Scott
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Hi Ma,
How are you? How is your Sunday going?
As I was driving over to the Moraga Farmer's Market near Canyon (since all 3 Berkeley Farmer's Markets are only open on Saturdays), Ed called. I was just driving down from Skyline Drive and about to get in the freeway, heading to look for more presents for him. As we finished talking - and almost in the tones of Moraga & Reed friend Byron's 'California' voice - I think he may have said "Buy Scott" or Bye Scott. Not sure what this might mean we're I to come into 670 Ridgecrest Canyon from the state of California, very speculatively. Ed had called me after sleeping very late and sounding well rested, buy not heading to Shoreline Park with his daughter Brianna at low tide to look at birds, since she was still sleeping.
Am writing outside the Berkeley Horticultural Nursery where we'll meet in 10 minutes. Then we'll head to Claremont Canyon around Berkeley and not Marin for a hike. Love you, Ed :) ... Have gotten a number of presents for him this morning, in addition to a handsome gift card (for aquatic plants? For his fishpond) and ladybug stone - 2 kinds of Apricot jam (one with peppers), a cranberry current bread, 3 little cactus plants for his kids, some cookies from Italy, - and 2:further cookies from the nearby Hopkins st bakery, a freak out cookie and a chocolate basoniot (sp?) The latter as kinds of wee birthday cakes :)
Heading in to the nursery to meet now :)
Sending love, Scott
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Hi Ma,
Good to have hiked with Ed. How was your weekend?
We talked about many things, some obliquely. .... On this stellar but steep hike at first, I was, toward the end of it, reminded of the Toftrees' meeting of Dad, Aunt Mary and Uncle Bruce, and also wondering why it occurred with paper documentation of their family history. (When was this - late '90s?) And why did they meet for this? ... Had Dad even somehow - hijinx-wise - 'run' me for US president without my knowing it? :) ... As Ed and I were walking down toward end of hike, and I was recalling this possible Outrageous and crazy happening, I said "Fuck!" ... But it's long enough ago to not be that stressful these days at all ... And how to navigate this at the time? ... 'the future is ahead ...' (as George was wont to say droll-ly ... A "head" ... Thinking into the future re navigation ...
Around this time with Ed, I also mentioned my relative lack of traveling since Dad's passing ... Dad facilitated great travel for me in so many ways, thanks to his free thinking - and his effectiveness at realizing ideas too, for his kids
+ ...
And could Ed have somehow been talking with Caleb MD? ... in MENTIONING 2 words ... 1) 'arranged' re marriages (a word I had talked about with George and the Alexanders before ) ... Happens eg in Indian cultures still I think some (re different kinds of cultural information sharing among groups re what I'm familiar with) ... And regarding too my past mutual loves, but also how I have thought it can be easier somehow in connecting for having kids if it's for more reasons than just (profound even) mutual love (between INDIVIDUALS, a focus of George's thinking too, & re agency) ... Which I've experienced but which didn't lead to having kids at the time (and which was some 3 decades ago)
... And 2) 'golden' re California (a word George talked about re this state and perhaps in talking with friends of his here compared with east coast) ... And the gold rush? The golden color of the grasses in 8 months of summer (originally for grazing cattle in the 2nd half of 1800s and first half of 1900s as forests fell?) ... Or the people too? En masse ... Surfing their lives away in the endless
sun :)
Good to visit with Ed to celebrate his birthday ... Am still circulating in seeking life partner ... Not sure what's developing with Canyon, (and even with federal authorities) ... Or what role Ed might be playing in all of this ... So good to be able to stay here possibly 3 months or 12 months's longer too in communication with Navin over the weekend :)
What are you up to this week, Ma? Talk with you soon:)
Love, Scott
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Hi Ma,
How are you? And how was your weekend?
Have you been able to explore other symphonies since one can choose to listen easily to many now - and for developing reasons even? Seems like seeing friends at the PSO these days physically is more complicated and difficult fornerly - although I bet you've seen some / many in video conferencing over the past nearly-full year. Why listen to symphony whether it be physically at the PSO - BESIDES THE GREAT MUSIC - or virtually to the PSO or other great orchestras (Apart from friends there too), I wonder?
I've listened to a little chamber music and some symphonic music in recent weeks and months, some Baroque and for its moving qualities in addition to its intellectually interesting qualities for example, - and re excellence of the music
in the way it's played (and in its composition:) in particular. How about you? I listen to relatively little radio like KQED but choose the pieces I'd like to listen to. On the one hand I don't hear new treats like I might on radio or in Symphony, but I am moved more than going to Symphony for new music that doesn't move me that much .... And yet I can be intellectually moved at Symphony with new music in a way that's different, say, with music I choose specifically to move me
(This Vivaldi's 4 seasons is a good example - Four Seasons Vivaldi - 10 Hours - Relaxing Classical Music For Studying, Concentration And Sleeping
https://youtu.be/PzJIvYNFN6c).
Love, Scott
Ma, just shared this with Ed, and kind of re 'hope' possibly in a way too :)
Happy upcoming birthday, Ed, tomorrow ! Per our talk about DNA and the genetic engineering revolution and what I call my right ear 'eustachian tube dysfunction,' am wondering about this development (learned about from George Church) - what I think is DNA to muscle' research - which I mention in my Season's Greetings' letter -
http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2021/01/twinpods-123120-see-122320-too-seasons.html?m=0 Seems like further breakthroughs could be expedited with covid-19 pandemic developments. - Scott ;)
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Hi Ma,
Nice to talk. I walked on to the UU Church from where I called you with a little view of sunset and GG Bridge. Glad you're hearing PSO related symphony chamber music occasionally.
Hoping you have a great day, Ma :)
Love, Scott
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Hi Ma,
These headlines are only getting funnier (I found these humorous - some pics too) ...
(Great funny text translation)
Corona policy error series
The vote of confidence
COMMENT
BY LUKAS WALLRAFF
Politicians have resigned for less than the many mistakes in corona policy. But right now everyone is protecting each other.
Federal plan: Vaccinated persons should be released into the wild in doses
The pressure to relax is increasing - not least because of the vaccination: if the vaccine protects against infection, massive restrictions on basic rights for vaccinated people are hardly sustainable: This is the conclusion drawn by the federal lawyers.
Love, Scott
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Hi Ma,
How are you? And how is your week going?
Am just about to record as an experiment, and for learning purposes, "The Desperate Battle of the Birds" Piobaireachd, on Scottish Small PIpes, and in preparation also for a lesson at 3:45 today with Ian :) I haven't explored recording much Piobaireachd, but may aim for another even next album in these regards :)
Sorry to hear of Laurent's passing ... and will be thinking about him as I play.
Love,
Scott
- and regarding my first SSP album too, eg -
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Hi Ma,
Just recorded the whole Piobaireachd piece, "The Desperate Battle of the Birds," - and am listening to it now (it's a 12:46 minute recording made in the Audacity App or program) - and I'm ok with (I like them well enough) the piece's Urlar or Ground (the first movement with motif), and the first variations (as a I make way forward with Piobaireachd) ... but as I recall while playing, the penultimate ...
Taorluath variation
Taorluath a Mach variation
Crunluath variation
Crunluath a Mach variation
- particularly these 'a Mach' variations, I don't quite have them 'down' yet ... and we worked on these 2 weeks ago (and I have a good recording to learn from too).
And I'll wait to hear what Ian says in the lesson too!
It's really good to make a recording for learning's sake (at this stage for me) ... because one or I hear(s) the music in very different ways - from 'outside' ... making it possible to learn a piece in new ways... :)
May play these movements a bit further before the lesson too!
Will you be listening to any symphony this weekend? Do you listen to much symphonic music during the course of the week as well (actively - with focused consciousness :) - and passively, ie re the radio)?
Love, Scott
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Hi Ma,
It could be really interesting to travel to all 137 International Youth Hostels in Japan -
https://www.hihostels.com/destinations/jp/hostels - part of Hostelling International. ... 137 nights or 4 months of travel? I wonder if this could be possible visa-wise ... And whether I'd also avoid some youth hostels there near Fukushima for example ... :)
Have only been to Japan on Semester at Sea, in 1999, and to the south island ... might be a good focus ... :)
Could be interesting while on such a trip to Japan to go to many symphonies and other musical performances too there :)
Love, Scott
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Ma,
I heard about them again this morning from Rebecca MacKinnon and her Ranking Digital Rights' project - regarding individuals' rights for privacy from companies ... Some questions, messages and a Tweet about this below ...
Love, Scott
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ansel_Adams_Wilderness
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Crest_Trail
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