Beginning to Bewail

 The Minister spoke at length of how Life is Change, and on the Illusion of seeking Security. But, then: he's sure he’s got a job next week.

Porridger’s Almanack (Breakfast of Ganglions)

(On the set of Silent Movie)

Mel Brooks: Did you break anything?

Marty Feldman: Nothing I need.

My colleague Jim Dalton most graciously wrote back:

I just read through Aaron’s Uneasy Sleep a few times. Once slowly to check for playability, once up to tempo without the fixed media, and once complete with fixed media. It’s enjoyable to play and I think it will be very effective. Let me know if Aaron programs it in the area, I’d love to hear what he does with it.

Jim then wrote at enormously helpful length touching on divers details, so that (while the matter of a bend awaits Aaron’s own opinion/thoughts, I have made some necessary additions to the score.

Also: 16 years ago today:

[I have] strategized the completion of the last of three pieces for Audrey [Cienniwa.] [24 Sep 2009]

Those pieces were the Opus 96, It’s all in your head (not that that’s a bad place for everything to be.)

I have been chipping away a bit at the Opus 200, and am also forming more ideas. I am unhurried, but neither am I idle. That’s it for now, except to note tangentially that today I rediscovered verbal notes for the Opus 192, which (erm, obviously) is another item of Unfinished Business. Well, it’s waited all this while (since February) so it will keep yet. At first I mistook those notes as applying to another band piece (reflecting my present focus, no doubt) which of itself quite tickled me. More Op. 200 work tomorrow!