new mus(ings)ic

Rehearsals have been underway for the past week and a half, and De Profundis is starting to sound like an actual piece of music (!) — encouraging. I have received several comments about the impressiveness of having actually corralled fifteen people into one room in order to make it happen, but better yet I’ve gotten [...]

One semester, that is.
Exam week is officially and finally over! The last bits were an exam for Psychology of Music on Thursday evening and a counterpoint project and analysis due last night. That project was a four-voice fugue, which I wrote for wind quartet, and on which I actually started over mid-week after a while [...]

Be soothed, gentle reader. I have not abandoned you, but merely sought to deepen our bond in silent fellowship. And look! Now I speak again!
First snow today! Sort of. It snowed over Thanksgiving in Michigan when we were at my mom’s house, and I even got to drive a little in that–first snow driving since [...]

A pictorial reprise:

I’m scratching “theology student” from my little “about” deal over there. It’s hard to believe, but the wife and I are both done with everything for Fuller. Everything has been mailed off, e- and otherwise, and any theology reading following today will be uncoerced.
The big final paper took me most of [...]

I’m getting slow on the updates, here. Sorry ’bout that.
Obviously, T and I survived Arts Fest two weeks back. It was a success, a good time in general although rather stressful at the time (especially with both of us sick all week).  Of particular note was the use of the Mass I wrote [...]

The last bits of my doc apps went in today.  Hallelujah.
Well, almost. I still have to take a music theory and history entrance exam for Ball State, which is usually administered on campus during a visit, but since I’m some 2100 miles away they’ll let me take it out here, proctored by some responsible office [...]