Brainripples

This week is Shabbat Shirah, the Sabbath of Song, and as has been my custom these past few years I use this week to take stock of my music-making.

Kabbalat Shabbat is fully composed, except for the editing. ( Details behind a cut to keep your friends page short )

Pesukei d'Zimrah remains stalled. I'm starting to feel bad again about the prospect that it might never get performed, so once KabShab is done I hope to return to PDZ and get it rolling again.

Bible Bystanders is also stalled. That's got better prospects than PDZ, I suppose, so I should get back to it; I have some ideas that I haven't had time to flesh out. And my kids are soon going to be too old to appreciate it.

I am not singing. Well, I sing to myself, and I sometimes am shaliach tzibbur, but this year I haven't been taking voice lessons and I'm not in a chorus any more and I'm not in a small group. That sucks. ( Again, cut for length. )

And so, my fellow netizens, the State of Andrew's Music is mixed. I'm excited and proud about KabShab; I'm depressed about PDZ, Bystanders, and about not singing.

So I haven't had much luck so far finding an existing group, but I have had a suprising number of people expressing interest. Therefore, I'm going to explore organizing a group.

Before I lj-cut, let me emphasize that the goal is to sing for the love of singing and so if you're at all curious or interested, please ( follow the link for what I'm thinking we might do. )