It’s 11:40 PM. I’m home from opera. Everyone here is asleep. And I’m wired. Go figure.
The opera went quite well. I played a new reed, which can be risky sometimes, but this one behaved, for the most part, and may very well work itself into something quite nice. Then again, you know how reeds are; [...]
I am sad, sad, sad, sad, sad … um … tired, tired, tired, tired, tired.
Sometimes I’m so tired I think I’m sad until I ponder for a moment.
Yep. It’s tired.
Drove over the hill to UCSC to teach early this morning. Home at nearly 1:00. Now I pick up Jameson and teach two more students. [...]
Charles Noble’s audition story continues. But doesn’t finish.
Sigh.
I guess I should do the same … take my time with all I post. Make readers wait. Have you keep coming back for more. Instead I just blab on and on and on and … oh … yeah … that.
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Listening is an ability that gets developed by doing it. You have to both listen to the same thing often enough to get beneath the surface and to constantly listen to new things. And by new things, I mean things you’ve never heard before, things you don’t like on first hearing, even things you hate. [...]
