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Someone from Cool, California visited. I have no idea where Cool is, but I’m certainly going to go find out now. 🙂

In Other News …
I just received my part for a new work I’ll be recording in September. Yikes! It begins with various instruments coming in and out of the picture on what is my low F. The flute begins, followed by violin, clarinet, percussion, violin 2, horn, viola, cello, oboe … well, as you can see, lots of instruments coming in every two beats or so. On F. Marked ppp. I have a feeling I’ll use forked F (the Marigaux forked F is quite lovely) and I may end up muting the oboe as well. We’ll see. For me I go from that low F (7 score pages worth) to a high E. The things move a bit more. There isn’t a huge amount that is too difficult, but I will have to work out some fingerings (my part goes to a high G) and I will also have to practice the parts that were marked 8va rather than put up in the correct place. I don’t know if anyone else struggles with this, but putting something up an octave when it means more than just adding an octave key just throws me. I’m guessing I’m just an idiot.)

Well, okay, I’m not guessing. I know! 😉

While the work doesn’t look terribly difficult, I’m sure it will be; anytime a recording is added to the mix things become difficult. No one wants to be the one who makes us have to do things over again.

Recording is so much more stressful than anything else. San Jose Symphony (RIP) used to be broadcast live. That was so much less stressful than a recording. A live broadcast is one moment in time. A recording is forever!

Read this:

There was quite a bit of excitement in the lobby of Jazz at Lincoln Center on Thursday evening, as two celebrities – Neeme Jarvi and Derek Jeter – were on hand at the same time. Mr. Jeter was making a personal appearance, while Mr. Jarvi was entering the Rose Theater to hear his son Paavo conduct at the Mostly Mozart Festival.

Now explain. Jeter was making a personal appearance. Jarvi was what … making an impersonal one? Or is the writer saying Jeter showed his face but wasn’t attending the concert? I’m feeling stupid because I just don’t quite get this, and I’m sure it’s my problem; I can be slow this way.

And I think that weird A with two dashes is supposed to be an — (emdash) … right? It looks the same way in both Safari and Firefox. I suppose it works in IE? (Yeah, I’m nit picking. What better thing have I to do? Practice? Make reeds? Pshaw!)

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Earlier I wrote about who was reading in the US. Today’s list is from the rest of this very large and dusty planet. I get pretty darn excited seeing all these countries. Now of course I realize some might have landed here by mistake, but still, this is a very fun list!

Thanks to all who are visiting from:
Albania, Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Cote D’Ivoire, Czech Republic, Denmark, Egypt, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Hong Kong, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Korea, Latvia, Malaysia, Malta, Mexico, Mongolia, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Norway, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Romania, Russian Federation, Slovenia, Serbia and Montenegro, Singapore (sorry Nat! I didn’t mean to omit you!), South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey, UK, Ukraine, Venezuela.

Am I missing any countries? Do tell!

Do feel free to become a member. Introduce yourselves! Fill me in on your “oboing”, should you be an oboist. Or anything else. I’d love to hear from you!

She sent the Daily Echo a video of herself performing the opera classic Time to Say Goodbye, made famous by Sarah Brightman and Andrea Bocelli.

Gee … what an opera classic, eh?

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