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Better quality practice and preparation (not necessarily more! but getting the technical/ musical balance in better sync...) Like Martle, more and better listening (that's started now I have a dedicated listening space in the house - will be even better when there's a door on it!!!  ) (and reading too) I must get on with my PhD - repeat - I must get on with my PhD - repeat - I must get on with my PhD - repeat - I must get on with my PhD  Part-time - have done four years out of six but am probably only about 2.5 years down the line... Related (perhaps) - I must spend less time online - repeat - I must spend less time online - repeat - I must spend less time online - repeat - I must spend less time online Hopes - as ever, for a more enlightened musical Britain (and rest of the world), with no cuts, better music education provision and funding at all levels - whoa, was that a pig I saw flying past the window? Happy New Year All!!! |
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« Reply #16 on: 14:12:58, 31-12-2007 » |
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I will get my fledgling and slightly reluctant chamber group going properly.
I will follow through on some of the research I've done, particularly what might be of use to the fledgling chamber group.
(I will come up with a name for the fledgling chamber group!)
I will do some auditions for orchestras I haven't yet worked with.
Maybe I'll look into finding a few private students, too.
I will practise more, or at least play more.
I will stop worrying so much.
Happy New Year everyone!
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« Reply #17 on: 15:25:49, 31-12-2007 » |
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I must get on with my PhD - repeat - I must get on with my PhD - repeat - I must get on with my PhD - repeat - I must get on with my PhD Part-time - have done four years out of six but am probably only about 2.5 years down the line... It may not be that bad, rm - I reckon part-time allows you at least a year to "read around the subject". 5 1/2 years into my PhD that's what I tell myself anyway... |
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« Reply #18 on: 15:37:29, 31-12-2007 » |
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... it would be good to hear a live performance of Olivier's Fetes des belles eaux - some hope! It's for 6 ondes martenots.
Also, to do it properly, you would need the Seine, the water jets and the light show to complete the son et lumière of the original. Still, at least there are a couple of fairly modern recordings of the music to be found on CD, (though not without a bit of searching). Any hot tips on recordings, Bryn? (no pun intended) Well the one I have was recorded in 1996 by the Sextuor Jeanne Loriod and is on the REM label (REM 311306 XCD). It is not easy to find. There is also a recording on a doulbe CD set made by Takashi Harada, but that seems have been done by overdubbing, (Sonic Culture Design SCD-2436・37). |
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« Reply #19 on: 16:28:54, 31-12-2007 » |
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I feel very intrusive, but I still want to ask people who write Ph.D. to give a little hint about the topic. Because I am so far away and had been away from music for a long time, plus I always specialized in performance I can not imagine what people are inverstigating.
I feel it is too late for me to finish MA that I started in USA.
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« Reply #21 on: 21:35:04, 31-12-2007 » |
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 So they are! A Very Happy and Musical New Year to you all!  |
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« Reply #22 on: 16:00:14, 01-01-2008 » |
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OK then, twist my arm - I'll learn Enescu Konzertstucke, Viextemps Elegie, Viextemps Capriccio, and a Brahms Sonata.
Sounds good, Tommo. As a (not-very-good) clarinettist, I should spend more time practising and the Brahms op.120 no.2 would be a good place to start. I made a start on this resolution today, not straight in with the Brahms but, after watching this morning's documentary, the RVW Six Studies in English Folksong (well, the first three anyway)! |
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« Reply #23 on: 14:51:31, 02-01-2008 » |
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I didn't get nearly close enough to my ideal composing/teaching/playing/listening balance. Not that I'm sure precisely what that balance would be, but I figure I'll know it when I find it.  If you're like me, which you aren't, it isn't really there to be found... having spent most of last year more than usually busy with performing and working on improvisational compositions, which had been a long-held desire of mine, I now find myself feeling much better and more energised to be once more involved in writing completely-notated stuff and not having to travel around to gigs so much. (I give it a few months before I'm hankering after the on-the-road lifestyle again.) I think I've found that it isn't so much a case of balance but of some kind of creative imbalance (perhaps in more senses than one). Oh yes, happy new year everyone. |
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« Reply #24 on: 17:43:04, 02-01-2008 » |
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I feel very intrusive, but I still want to ask people who write Ph.D. to give a little hint about the topic. Because I am so far away and had been away from music for a long time, plus I always specialized in performance I can not imagine what people are inverstigating.
Not intrusive at all, t-p! It's on 20-century Polish and Hungarian music, and it rejoices under the title New Music from Hungary and Poland and its Reception in Great Britain, 1956-1976. I feel it is too late for me to finish MA that I started in USA.
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« Reply #25 on: 18:56:29, 02-01-2008 » |
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I didn't get nearly close enough to my ideal composing/teaching/playing/listening balance. Not that I'm sure precisely what that balance would be, but I figure I'll know it when I find it. I think I've found that it isn't so much a case of balance but of some kind of creative imbalance (perhaps in more senses than one). That's the one! Creative imbalance, or any kind of (im)balance that feels creative, will do me nicely. I've just heard that there're likely to be a handful of gigs for a new music/ improv group I play with in the spring. This news alone has made me feel very happy and strangely optimistic (strangely, because I'll need to put in time on the playing chops). |
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« Reply #26 on: 19:25:22, 02-01-2008 » |
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I think I've found that it isn't so much a case of balance but of some kind of creative imbalance (perhaps in more senses than one). Me too. I was just thinking about this last night. I've actually got to a stage where I'm managing to start the new year with quite a few little loose ends that had been hanging around for ages finally tied up, although I deliberately chose to do that rather than spend the last 2 weeks of December doing the much bigger thing that I was supposed to be finishing. However, I was thinking last night how I haven't tied everything up, nor would I want to. I suppose there are some people who genuinely could finish each thing before starting the next, but I'm certain I'd actually be unable to get going on a new project if I didn't have the loose ends of various previous projects hanging around in the back of my head. |
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« Reply #27 on: 22:49:32, 02-01-2008 » |
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In a sense juggling is already a kind of imbalance, isn't it? And only ceases to be so if all your balls have ended up on the floor...  |
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