AREA 3 of Illustration #2 I drew up on the flight from Atlanta back to Boston. Well, AREA 2, as well, only I had gotten AREA 2 right, where I found that I had gotten realization of the viola part (i.e., the game of applying the rhythmic value series to the pitch series) wrong. And though I discovered that I had gone wrong, and made an attempt to fix it ... I found it something of a visual mess. So I inscribed it RE-DO (as you may see), and realized that I could simplify the matter with a sheet of graph paper. (This graph paper was in my three-ring binder from the time that I was working out the rhythmic profile of the Thelonious Monk tune "Evidence.")
The result is the apparently not musical, but refreshingly clear and reliable, Illustration #3....Three years since, then, I had lately returned from Atlanta, and even laid in some Avocado work on the flight home to Boston.
Last night, we had a most enjoyable choir rehearsal at Holy Trinity Church. It is that time of year when we face the (most welcome) Thanksgiving hiatus, and must take thought for afterwards, as the Christmas concert loometh. Still a number of decisions, covering details which may not be musical, may not be great, but which want to be attended to.
I also rehearsed my Prelude on « Kremser » with (while the ongoing appointment is not yet quite official, it is already apt to call her) our new organist. Just the fact that I can play some of my music with the organist, is already a refreshing (and not at all unreasonably asked for) change.
The voice, you ask? Well, better and better. I doubt I can sing the entire Triad concerts this weekend, but perhaps I can do a reasonable job playing the Dying Californian. (There is a double meaning in that.)
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