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Showing my work
It would be silly for me to be telling you any of this if I weren't able to
Nicole Dieker Finley
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Bach (still Bach) and Henle
I don't even know how to tell you that it seems like if you are going to learn
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Bach (again) and Plato
"Two things," I told Larry, last night.
(You have figured out that we tend to think in lists,
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More thoughts on SIX, including how to fix it
So if you think about SIX at all seriously you have to ask yourself if these women know they'
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A bat and a ball cost $1.10 in total
There's a problem, if you can call it that – because its function is not to be solved, but
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I want to be a functional pianist (and other things I want)
If you read this post all the way through I am going to both a) solve for education and b)
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It's all the same thing, though
So I ended yesterday's post with "every time you interact with a Quality teacher, it 1) teaches
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Gödel, Escher, Bach, and Handel
The King's song is kinging along, I love when you go in after you've written something
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The informational quality of food
The deal is that I can't finish the King's song until I take some time to
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In which I develop a functional definition of "quality"
So yesterday I did this post in which I argle bargled for 1,287 words on problems I was not
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Giving children purchasing power could rightsize college debt
I mean, maybe it couldn't, but it's an idea I'm thinking about so I
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More thoughts on musicals, and a few thoughts on keeping an audience's attention
MELISANDE update! The Queen's song is final-first-drafted, which is to say that all of the musical elements except
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"musical openings are like chess openings, they set the conditions of the board"
Okay.
So.
You might ask, if you were of an inquisitive frame of mind, why theater gets nary a mention
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Taking Yourself Seriously
First of all, the Queen's song is scored. I need to go through it as a pianist and
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In which I get very critical about MUSICALS YOU MAY KNOW AND LOVE
MELISANDE is going very well, thank you. Scoring the Queen's song; telling Larry that each note needs both
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I rewrote the song...
It was actually very easy, once it came down to understanding what was wrong with it.
Also, I talked to