but i at least know all the notes now, can't play it every time but i'm close,
energy levels is a strange old thing, lack of money & the effect that has on my diet is partly to blame but i realise also that the energy i'm putting into this skryabin tune does indeed take it out of me, particularly in this well the party is tomorrow night and time is PRECIOUS mode of working, but maybe that's also to do with just how hard these last few sections are, not the very last bit which i've now got under my fingers but the REALLY achingly beautiful bits just before that, soooooooo hard, maybe there's no way to learn really hard music that isn't hard, hard work.
the London Review of Books continues to be great, since the bunuel book i'm back in LRB limbo, in the last interview with Edward Said he talks about a book project he's working on on late style, an essay on this by him appears in one of the LRB back issues i've got, i read it yesterday & it covers several writers that i love, the leopard by Lampedusa, C. P. Cavafy the poet... but i found it hard to read, he is hard to read sometimes, but also i don't know if he himself prepared it for publication, coming out after he died as it did...? then again i might have another go at it with a clearer head one day.
on a thursdays i run a module on a course along with another teacher, roughly split between us but i ended up teaching a little more than him this time, the module is split into two, the first half teaching various different musical theories, ideas, compositional tools... the second half getting them into groups and letting go off and write some music. the first half of this module ended today. i was responsible for the music harmony side of things, my coteacher more for the rhythmical stuff. breaking down all that i teach when i teach music theory into 3/4 lessons has been tricky, always will be tricky. anyway ended today, kind of glad to see it gone, good though it was...
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