Recent Basking

When I read someone (anyone, but in this case, a friend) write “this composer manages to make these ‘conservative’ works sound fresh, with purpose.” (he was writing of a symphony by Julius Röntgen (1855-1932) I think, it’s the content that matters, of course, not the idiom. Chances are good it’s an ideologue who would wish to make it a matter of the idiom, instead.
Porridger’s Almanack (Breakfast of Ganglions)

You’re crazy if you don’t learn from others.

— Chas. M. Jones

I have been faithfully chipping away at Dark Side of the Sun. Progress is not racing, as was the case with Crazy in a Bottle or Lord of the Things, but I find the pace satisfactory. After today’s work, I have six minutes of music, so my working estimate that it end up running eight minutes seems entirely to be tracking.