11.15
Bredonborough.
The presence of hope: I feel hope whenever I experience, discover, or come across, an act of quality. When this takes the form of a book, it is of little matter whether I am interested in the subject or not. If this takes the form of a musical performance, it matters little if I like the music, or not. Recently, on the suggestion of Peter Books, proprietor of The Bredon Bookshop, I bought a superb book on a subject in which I have no interest. The bookseller bought one for himself as well, it’s just so well done.
So, on a subject in which I do have an interest, discovering a work of quality is like Christmas-has-arrived-early. Christmas is early this year, courtesy of Gert-Jan Blom.
This is the second in a series of 3 related projects, of which Mr. G’s harmonium music was the first.
The orchestral versions, of the music played at Movements demonstrations in 1923 & 1924, continues the exceptionally high standard Gert-Jan has set.
11.22 A morning of e-frenzy.
Continuing developments in the digital music field…
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq:MSFT - news) has agreed to pay Universal Music Group a fee for each new Zune digital music player it sells when the iPod rival launches next week, the companies said on Thursday.
11.47 The back of the inbox is broken: down to 195.
19.15 An afternoon of various stuff & a little practisng. Now e-frenzying…
21.08 E-frenzy continuing…