Not a day of tremendous insights, except that it seems that ice scrapers evaporate during the summer in my car. I found myself, after doing some needed errands this noon, singing, "Slip Sliding Away," since the most trouble driving was my own apartment house driveway..."the closer your destination, the more you're slip sliding away." One of the errands I ran was to Luyben's Music, just a couple blocks over and a few blocks up. I wanted to get myself a birthday present (Monday I will be 53....) and purchased two Mark Hayes arrangement books of Christmas songs/carols. They are great. I can almost play most of them, though some are a real challenge. One insight that may seem strange that after all these years of piano playing I hadn't realized is this: I have always hated playing more than two sharps. Mark modulates as most solo piano arrangers do, so you might start out in a flat or two and then end up with 5 sharps on your hands...but I decided, when I reached a modulation place and it went from some simple key to 5 sharps just now, to think of it more like, "there are only two notes not sharped" which I think is true, and somehow that made it a heck of a lot easier. The glass being almost free of naturals instead of being almost full of sharps. It worked. I went on Mark's website to write him a thank you note for these (Philip introduced me to him when we ran into him at a restaurant downtown recently) and was able to see that he was supposed to have played a concert at Liberty UMC tonight...which of course is the largest church in my district...kind of a hoot how co-ink-a -dinks happen like that. It was postponed until the 23rd because of the weather, so I can go.
Also: there was a very cool article on the religion page of the Star today about Jacob's Well-not as an illustration of what "emergent" is but about the Advent Conspiracy approach to the season. It was very helpful. I hope this link would work...
I just looked and see that at least four of my district churches are cancelling worship for tomorrow. I have two charge conferences: North Star in Liberty where they are moving into their new warehouse space!; and North Spring. The charge conferences dwindle down now to a precious few....
Hope your Sunday is not too slip sliding away-ish.
2 comments:
Happy Birthday!
As a piano player myself who often transposes sharps to flats (why are they easier?), thanks for the illustration.
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