Ever had one of those days...

When everything just seems to fit? For some unknown reason, everything seems to be ok -- nothing particularly good happens, but everything just seems to lock into place the way it should...and it's refreshing. Content seems to be the best word for it, but it's more than just being aware and alive; for some reason you're excited about living, albeit that reason is unknown and I suppose you can never really find it.

Well, I'm having one of those days.

It seems like I should be at a turning point, but I'm not -- it's just a normal day and I'm going through the normal motions. Get up, work out, shower, class, practice, repeat: seems pretty mundane any other day of the week, but not today. Today I'm alone, and it's wonderful.

The Stravinsky that the CSU Choral Union is working on is coming along quite nicely; it's could eclipse Chichester Psalms as the most difficult work I have preformed though: the dissonance is at times unbearable and Stravinsky's use of two melodies which have absolutely no correlation is obsurdly difficult to graps upon the first reading. One moment where this "shines" and creates nightmares for choir directors (and singers...well, might as well include the pianist considering they have to play the parts) is at the beginning of "scene two" -- the alto's have a melodic line in a 3/4 meter while the basses under them are singing a different text and melody in 3/4, however the bass line is littered with duple's and scattered with 16th notes.

Yeah, it creats for some...interesting...rehersal times. Another instance like this happens a few pages after the previous example, except you have a 6/8 line being counted in 2/4 followed y a 9/8 in 3/4 for a measure...and then we're back to 6/8 (2/4) **page turn** 5/8.

-_- So enough about Les Noces. Ill keep you updated on how that goes. Until then, Jo-Michael Scheibe & University of Miami Chorale has a beautiful CD, Love of My Soul, that features some really great music: you should all check it out.