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It's a fun little recording, but sorry AC, that's not a clavichord. It is a square piano after all. If you look closely at the action you can see the hammers and dampers. The action of the clavichord isn't nearly so complex the dead giveaway is the fact that the hammers drop back down after striking, even while the key is held. On a clavichord, the tangent remains pressed against up to the string as long as the key is held.
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Sorry I dropped off the face of the planet again... Started a new job and have had no time for reading and writing, unfortunately. And I was on such a roll towards finally finishing Running for Home, too... Sigh. To all those who have been reading the story over the years, thank you. I am sorry to be letting you down again.
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Such a delightful piece, and a wonderful performance.
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Thanks for reading, gentlemen. All will be revealed in time. 🙂
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Thanks for reading, gentlemen. All will be revealed in time. 🙂
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I've always loved Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto in e minor, especially the slow movement!
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Since I'm taking the summer off work at the college, I have a bit more time on my hands during the days. After mostly just relaxing this week, playing video games and writing and cuddling with my cat, it's time to set some goals so I don't just idle the time away for the rest of the spring and summer.
I'm going to renew my running, with the goal of running 30km a week by the end of summer.
I'm going to start working on some more challenging piano repertoire, with the goal of playing something a step up from what I've played for my students in the past two recitals. I have six months to nail down something for performance - I am thinking either Chopin - one of the harder Nocturnes - or Beethoven, perhaps part of the Pathetique or the Hunt Sonatas.
I want to finish Running for Home by the end of summer, but I'm not going to wrench the ending in to fit an artificial deadline. I'm so happy that, with one week exception, I've been able to put out a chapter every week since Christmas.
I also want to clean up my office and get rid of a bunch of junk and organize my music library. There is just so much flotsam and jetsam from grad school and even undergrad that I need to sort through. I am glad that I hung onto things from my music degree, as now that I'm professionally teaching music as a career that material will come in handy. But what to do about all my science stuff?
Being a biologist was so deep in my identity for so long, I look at all my textbooks and scientific treatises and I don't want to part with them - at least, not all of them. I suppose I need to at least downsize what I have, but it will be hard.
I don't want to be a hoarder like my grandmother an aunt, though. Living in apartments for the last two decades has made if difficult to do that, especially with moving every few years, but I feel a bit of inertia now that we've been in the current place for almost six years and we have no plans of moving again any time soon. I need to take care of shit so that it isn't a big struggle when we do move.
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Pires and Mozart - a match made in heaven! Also, Mozart in a minor key - always a treat. He so rarely wrote in the minor, but when he does he really makes it matter!
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May 14, 2022 They let Quentin out of the brig yesterday. Can’t say that I feel completely comfortable with that. Not on your life. He won’t be in my class for the rest of the year, no, he’s going to be getting independent tutoring for a while to try and monitor his behaviour and see if the work they have been doing on rehabilitating him has had a measurable effect. They are giving him the weekend to get reacquainted with life upstairs before classroom life resumes.
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Very sore today, but in a good way. Had the first aikido seminar since January 2020 this past weekend, and it was a lot of fun. Great people to train with, and the senior sensei teaching used me as his crash test dummy a lot, so I got quite the rollercoaster ride.
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Thanks, and thanks for reading. I struggled a bit putting this one together. I knew I needed to mix in some denouement from the last couple chapters with a bit of build into the next... I guess John is reaching a stage where he is seeing himself for who he truly is, knows what he needs to work on, and knows what he wants going forward. It isn't just about surviving anymore.
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May 10, 2022 Christ, I can’t go away for one goddamned weekend to reunite with my father and have a happy family moment for once in my life, already more shit’s gone down. I mean, fuck, what would my life be without drama, right? But it would have been fucking nice to be able to come back home to the School and just fucking relax into work for a week, or something. Fuck. Waking up at my father’s house in Bobby’s arms was nice. Too nice. I felt so refreshed
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Yeah, I thought about that, whether their might be some friction there, but in the end I came down to wanting to focus in particular on the conversation with Uncle Mike in this chapter. Friction with Bobby might have detracted from the importance of that. The rest of the chapter is mostly fluff, ha ha ha. Of course, Isaac would be on his best behaviour for this meeting - unlike Bobby's parents who feel (perhaps misguidedly) secure in their relationship with their son, Isaac is grasping at something that could very quickly and very easily slip between his fingers. I also came to the conclusion that St. John gravitated more towards his father when he was younger, so it would be more meaningful and helpful for him on his journey to recovery as a human if this went well. That's not to say there will be no challenges in the future, but I'm not sure if his father will be one of them.
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Me too. I'm glad the way the past two chapters panned out changed from my original intention. I don't think you would have liked the alternate universe encounter with his father.
