*musical drool*

Last night on Adventures In Good Music (radio program hosted by the late Karl Haas) I heard snippets of Francis Poulenc's Mass in G Major, which he dedicated to his father. The Mass is a capella. And I really like Poulenc's sonorities. I think I need to acquire this little sonic morsel. Mmmmmmm....

Part of why this strikes me so is that after a couple of small-ish composition, arranging, and transcription projects, I would really like to write the Candlelight anthem for my church, possibly for 2006. This may wind up being a Gloria (like Vivaldi's and Rutter's), but I'm not sure yet. I'll need to do much listening, research, and soul-search. It'll be my biggest work to date, and I'm gonna do it right.

From ratio to omen

E-gads, how did I miss yesterday being Pi Day???

And, in case it hasn't been blatantly pointed out to you yet in the last 10 minutes, beware the Tides of the Barony-Marche... no, wait... beware the Brides of Alan Titchmarsh... d'oh! uh... look out! is that a knife, dude? CRAP. Forget it.

Pi-ku!!!

Ok, I'm knowingly going overboard here. In honor of the belated pi-day, which I missed, I will write a pi-ku, which will be a 6-line poem with syllables in each line corresponding with pi to the fifth decimal. In addition, the first line must end in a period. (it's three point one, after all)

Write your own pi-ku! Share it! Delete it! Ignore it! :-)

My Pi-ku

I forgot.
I
didn't know that
now
is too late too share
Pi Day with all I know on LJ.

Lame, yet relevant

I gave everybody my wishlist of computer hardware for my birfday, but nobody bought me anything :-(.

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Musical itinerary

Projects to complete in the calendar year 2005, in order of completion:

Arrange a traditional hymn for women's choir at my church, in the style of Anonymous 4's version of "Amazing Grace." (simply breathtaking)

Find and transcribe "Imagery," the trumpet and piano piece I wrote as a sophomore(?) to be worked up by me and Tim as a church prelude or offeratory. I think it's in my briefcase, which I think is still on sk4p's 3rd floor. :-)

Write an a capella trio for fiannaharper, myself, and Tim to be performed in the fall.

Have an idea of the form of my Candlelight work- Gloria? Latin or English? If not a traditional form, what text do I use and how many movements? I already know instrumentation- 2 vln, vla, vcl, 2 tpt, 2 F hns, tymp. (yes, this includes choir and organ. smartass.)

Probably some arrangement for the Chatham band/orchestra to be concieved and completed during the six week summer camp.

Considering what I've already done this year, this doesn't seem like too much, provided I have access to Finale (got to get the upgrade for the eMac...) and a printer. I like it. I like it a lot.