2025 Thoughts
✦ February
Brahms (just Brahms)
It's Friday, I'll have more to tell you about the MELISANDE end-of-act number soon, in the
Thoughts
A reverse-chronological log of what might be important.
2025 Thoughts
✦ February
The Beatitudes as they could be translated
First of all, yes I have stuck to my plan of extricating myself from the systemic internet (for lack of
2025 Thoughts
✦ February
Writers with whom I've worked
I just got a lovely email from an author with whom I'd worked, a while ago, letting me
2025 Thoughts
✦ February
Federalist Papers 7-8
If you weren't sure whether Hamilton was for-sure a genius, you will be after reading Federalist No. 8.
2025 Thoughts
✦ February
"deliberate attempts to understand, capture, and replicate information through observation and the application of tools"
I've started scoring the end-of-act number, and I've got this feeling like it's going
2025 Thoughts
✦ February
Sonya isn't good
Still processing THREE HOUSES.
Studying OCTET, I bought the libretto, there is so much more to the piece than the
2025 Thoughts
✦ February
Thoughts on Dave Malloy's THREE HOUSES
These thoughts are very very very unverified, since I haven't even listened to the entire piece twice through
2025 Thoughts
✦ February
Progress
Who knows what to title this one, it's a progress update, here we go:
* Memorizing that Kabalevsky was
2025 Thoughts
✦ February
Kabalevsky Variations in D Major
It's time to show more of my work. I put this piece together in the past four days
2025 Thoughts
✦ February
Federalist Papers 1-6
So, okay, I made a few edits to my evaluation of Middlemarch yesterday, all of them based on my confusion
2025 Thoughts
✦ February
The end of Middlemarch (and the beginning of the Federalist Papers)
I finished up Middlemarch a few days ago. Here's what I want to remember about it:
[...] for the
2025 Thoughts
✦ February
I fixed the overture
So I thought to myself that I could wait until I finished writing and scoring Act II, maybe some of
2025 Thoughts
✦ February
Exponential vs. expediential
So when I wrote, yesterday, that the best way to learn that you aren't half as brilliant as
2025 Thoughts
✦ January
Assorted thoughts (mostly on intelligence)
I had some family stuff this weekend so I got a bit behind on everything else, am caught up now,
2025 Thoughts
✦ January
More thoughts on Middlemarch (also, why Ayn Rand is like keto)
I am up to Chapter LI in Middlemarch (that would be Chapter 51, although I will admit I had to
2025 Thoughts
✦ January
Ravel and MELISANDE
It's time to show my work, so here we go:
This is the first movement of the Ravel