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There's nothing like spending all day on intensive physical labor on something you've been waiting to make for ages. Saturday, as I said, was armoring day. I now have the bracers/elbow pad I've been needing cut out of my giant leather roll, as well as a gorget and an extension for the front of my helmet. Everyone (especially the host) was extremely helpful, and I can probably do more on my own now, too. Knees and a kidney belt still needful.
Sunday afternoon, Laura had the time to spend with us finishing up her pre-Avengers viewing sessions; we got through Cap and Hulk (2008), and the presence of Tim Roth in that reminded her of the Roth-and-Oldman Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, which I'd not known existed, so we had to watch that. Next time, Avengers! And Noises Off, which I discovered she hadn't seen.
Last night was the first chamber choir rehearsal of this concert series, which includes the Villa shows (random Christmas stuff) and the Messiah shows (which also includes the Charpentier Christmas Mass). True, there is a lot more Baroque nonsense, and some really terribly mediocre blase Christmas rep, but also there is some gorgeous Renaissance stuff and a Chilcott arrangement and a Sametz version of the lovely medieval Gaudete with excellently unpredictable time signatures. If only this ensemble could reliably and effectively distinguish between dynamic levels.
While I had Laura over on Saturday, I imposed the KS Christmas album on her, and we marveled and griped together about how the measures of flawless ensemble were made in things like dynamics and phrasing and blend that shouldn't actually be so hard to do if people weren't obsessed with their own voices. I decided I'm going to write us some things in which we can do them.
Meanwhile, there is a full Hobbit soundtrack available (http://www.empireonline.com/news/story.asp?NID=35757)! I am somewhat perturbed by the overwhelming recycling of themes I wouldn't have thought would be relevant to this story, but I guess I'll have to see when the movie comes out. WHICH IS NEXT MONTH YAAAAYY. Fandom. I'll have to make a shirt or something. Can't resist creativity when considering the middle-earth creatives.
Dan is in Qatar. Not somewhere I ever expect to go, should be interesting to hear about. He's at an education conference. Apparently the queen of Qatar is pretty serious about education. Nice.
Sunday afternoon, Laura had the time to spend with us finishing up her pre-Avengers viewing sessions; we got through Cap and Hulk (2008), and the presence of Tim Roth in that reminded her of the Roth-and-Oldman Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, which I'd not known existed, so we had to watch that. Next time, Avengers! And Noises Off, which I discovered she hadn't seen.
Last night was the first chamber choir rehearsal of this concert series, which includes the Villa shows (random Christmas stuff) and the Messiah shows (which also includes the Charpentier Christmas Mass). True, there is a lot more Baroque nonsense, and some really terribly mediocre blase Christmas rep, but also there is some gorgeous Renaissance stuff and a Chilcott arrangement and a Sametz version of the lovely medieval Gaudete with excellently unpredictable time signatures. If only this ensemble could reliably and effectively distinguish between dynamic levels.
While I had Laura over on Saturday, I imposed the KS Christmas album on her, and we marveled and griped together about how the measures of flawless ensemble were made in things like dynamics and phrasing and blend that shouldn't actually be so hard to do if people weren't obsessed with their own voices. I decided I'm going to write us some things in which we can do them.
Meanwhile, there is a full Hobbit soundtrack available (http://www.empireonline.com/news/story.asp?NID=35757)! I am somewhat perturbed by the overwhelming recycling of themes I wouldn't have thought would be relevant to this story, but I guess I'll have to see when the movie comes out. WHICH IS NEXT MONTH YAAAAYY. Fandom. I'll have to make a shirt or something. Can't resist creativity when considering the middle-earth creatives.
Dan is in Qatar. Not somewhere I ever expect to go, should be interesting to hear about. He's at an education conference. Apparently the queen of Qatar is pretty serious about education. Nice.