Wednesday, February 2, 2011

February 2 - The Far Horizon



Finish the videos of Diabolic Variations with XXXIII, head off to Diablo for a dictation on Thomas Ravenscroft's Three Blind Mice, harmonizing it at the perfect fifth above, break for the lab for coffee with Doug as the


low sun


Stonehenges, Tritone Orchestra recording all of Buddha's Little Instruction Book, Op. 74 -- breaking from this no less than three times to 1) chat with a pleasant Norton Publications woman about this and that, 2) have a profitable tutorial with Ms. Isalm and her brother, 3) touch base with Brett and Owen about orchestrating a musical potpourri for a fee. 


Return


for breakfast/lunch/dinner (first and only repast of the day, given the busy schedule) with Harriet and Megan, then plunge into the orchestration -- characterized as New Big People Old Trouble So Sunday, Op. 190, doing the first page front-and-back of the first-movement (which turns into seven pages of full score thus far), followed by the composition of page 7 Psalm 46.