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Hiya once more!
I do know it has been awhile. Like the remainder of the world, COVID type of put me in a rut. However I made a decision that was okay. As an alternative of guilting myself, I laid myself down in my rut, lined myself in grime and leaves, and hibernated for few months. Proverbially (principally).
However now, I am in paper-writing hell. And writing tutorial papers simply makes me miss writing what I really like: critiques, suggestions, issues which might be strictly just-for-fun and do not contain in-depth analyses of Tristan und Isolde. That opera is such a clusterfuck — for the love of god, not even one cadence? (Please, no matter deities that be, make it so my music principle professor by no means reads this.)
So this is a enjoyable little replace on what I have been as much as since my final submit six(!) months in the past.
Digital Ensembles
I hate them. They are not the identical. Do not let anybody let you know that they are comparable, or substitute. They’re a band-aid on a bullet wound. However I am doing them anyway to really feel one thing, something.
I am fortunate to have a quartet with pals who additionally hate digital ensembles, however are doing them anyway to really feel one thing, something. Right here is our first enterprise, some Poulenc from again in [July? August? Summer.].
This was the primary time I placed on live performance black for the reason that pandemic began.
I by no means anticipated to have such feelings over a literal black T-shirt.
In just a few weeks, you possibly can hear me in a wholly digital manufacturing of Dido and Aeneas. I can be listening, however not earlier than a pleasant sturdy martini. Listening to recordings of oneself is precise, verified torture.
Summer time Courses
Solely considered one of them. Chemistry for Music Majors.
Cooking
Greater than any one who lives alone ought to.
A Pseudo-Musicology Discuss
Peep my now-broken brown chair :'(
Convincing Myself That I Need To Sing for a Dwelling
After which having a disaster and speaking myself out of that prospect three weeks later. At the very least for now 😉
A Yard Manufacturing of Dido and Aeneas
Furnished informally by the Yale Music Division, carried out socially distanced within the division chair’s yard. I used to be the drunken sailor, full with an empty bottle of Laphroaig (costly style!).
Deep Dives for Recital Rep
Maybe the most important loss for me within the COVID period has been alternatives to conduct. Final March and April, I used to be alleged to conduct the Yale Glee Membership on tour and conduct a fully-staged manufacturing of Stravinsky’s Pulcinella. With undergrads unilaterally barred from in-person efficiency right here, there are merely no actual conducting alternatives.
Anyway, that is about it from me. Hopefully, I will be writing extra within the coming months — I am developing on a winter break the place I will don’t have anything to do however observe my *top-secret* recital repertoire. Hope you all keep protected and wholesome, each bodily and mentally!
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