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Jun. 5th, 2006 10:09 amJust a quick life update, in case anyone cares...
The Zamir concert last night went pretty well. The audience was enthusiastic; the mistakes we made were the kind that only we would notice. Andrew Bleckner came up from Philly to hear the New England premiere of his Psalm 150 setting, which was very complex rhythmically (it has 5 percussionists) and on which we did a bang-up (and clang-up and boom-up) job.
I've fallen way behind on Daf Yomi again. At this point, I'm on track to finish Pesachim the same day that the cycle finishes Sheqalim so I'll just skip an entire tractate and join up with the rest of the world for Yoma. Since Sheqalim is short and not even in the Babylonian Talmud (it's in the Jerusalem Talmud instead.... long story....) I don't feel so guilty for skipping it --- and maybe I can find time to learn it somtime in the next six years so I can still call this a complete cycle.
I have been so busy with kids, work, Shavu'ot, and Zamir that I have had no time to work on PDZ nor on rewording my call for singers. Blah.
On the other hand, I did manage to get my siddur (prayer book) project restarted in time to use a draft printout for Shavu'ot. I'm psyched --- it helped my kavannah and that's a good thing.
Still working my way through The Power Broker (I'm up to page 800 or so).
The Zamir concert last night went pretty well. The audience was enthusiastic; the mistakes we made were the kind that only we would notice. Andrew Bleckner came up from Philly to hear the New England premiere of his Psalm 150 setting, which was very complex rhythmically (it has 5 percussionists) and on which we did a bang-up (and clang-up and boom-up) job.
I've fallen way behind on Daf Yomi again. At this point, I'm on track to finish Pesachim the same day that the cycle finishes Sheqalim so I'll just skip an entire tractate and join up with the rest of the world for Yoma. Since Sheqalim is short and not even in the Babylonian Talmud (it's in the Jerusalem Talmud instead.... long story....) I don't feel so guilty for skipping it --- and maybe I can find time to learn it somtime in the next six years so I can still call this a complete cycle.
I have been so busy with kids, work, Shavu'ot, and Zamir that I have had no time to work on PDZ nor on rewording my call for singers. Blah.
On the other hand, I did manage to get my siddur (prayer book) project restarted in time to use a draft printout for Shavu'ot. I'm psyched --- it helped my kavannah and that's a good thing.
Still working my way through The Power Broker (I'm up to page 800 or so).