The warm weather continues -- 73 -- doing the daily 21st-Century work and beginning to plan the composition of Psalm 52 (certainly no more than the first page), rendezvous'ing with the DVC Theoreticians for The Sound of Music: Do-Re-Mi: video (on the computer), followed by dictation, keyboard-solfege, and board harmony of the first 16 bars.
Thereafter,
homeward to grade another set of Music History papers -- also transferring said quizzes to MacBook from PC, since the latter's printer is either out of toner or out of luck altogether, and preparing for tonight's make-ups with a fair number of prints both here and
(after
the
scenic
evening
commute)
at school. Session from Giuseppi Verdi through Giacomo Puccini goes smoothly, looking towards the
Early 20th Century next week, but presentation ends abruptly when the laptop suddenly shuts off. Trade Doug for an audio cord that will work in the iPhone, and proceed to give three of the make-ups via the built-in iPod. Extremely concerned about the computer, of course, until noticing that it has not been attached to the power cord all evening... Well, that solves that.... At least for now...
Out with Owen, Doug, and Melanie after class, then return to the second 15 seconds of Camino Real: Block 7 video, preparing pdf of third movement Ecclesiastes for posting on IMSLP, and transferring the Sinfonietta (Op. 26) to the Mac. In passing, have learned more about digital pictures and kilobytes / megabytes / gigabytes in the last few days (since the April 1 shrinkpictures.com discovery) than in the last five years. Astounded to realize that the above photo -- a linkage of two shots, subsequently cropped -- ballooned up to an entire MB of info, until being brought down to a very efficient 35.6 KB, thanks to the aforesaid site. Definitely on a crusade to keep the blog from bursting its megabyte allowance: at 454 of 1024 MB presently...
