Spent the entire morning finishing up a working copy of the Mendelssohn anthem I putting into Finale. I need to get practicing this as soon as possible, so even though it’s not quite done, I want to print up what I have and start learning the organ part.
All that is left to do is put in the words. I am thinking of making a different score for the choir utilizing this doc in which I will expand the two staves of the choral part into the more traditional four.
Anyway, that’s all the time I have for blogging.
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All-Star Orchestra Records Series for WNET – NYTimes.com
This seems like a valiant attempt to support this kind of music.
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Rage by Miners Points to Shift in South Africa – NYTimes.com
It happens over and over. The idealistic revolutionary becomes the fat cat and suppresses others.
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Students of Harvard Cheating Scandal Say Group Work Was Accepted – NYTimes.com
More on this story. Sounds like the situation might have been a bit more involved than the first news story:
Harvard Says 125 Students May Have Cheated on Exam – NYTimes.com
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The G.O.P. Fact Vacuum – NYTimes.com
We’ll see if the Democrats manage to do as prevarication.
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Transport for London razes homeless woman’s shelter | Society | The Guardian
Classical musicians living on the streets of London for years.
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Chinese City Gives Retirees License to Ticket – NYTimes.com
Interesting concept. It probably works better in a society that not only can see the invisible old but actually respects them in a culturally embedded way (I have experienced this there).
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Roma Still Waiting for a Change of Fortune in France – NYTimes.com
Roma=gypsies…. still get oppressed.
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On Gulf Coast, Low-Profile Victims Are Hit Hard – NYTimes.com
NYT tries to expand the notion of where Isaac has done damage beyond Louisiana.
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Negative Campaigning, Pompeii-Style – NYTimes.com
Same as it ever was.
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Party of Strivers – NYTimes.com
[T]here is a flaw in the vision the Republicans offered in Tampa. It is contained in its rampant hyperindividualism.
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