07.18
David Donald Field Studies Base, Worth Matravers, Isle of Purbeck. Dorset.
A handsome, austere morning on the cliffs of the Jurassic coast, just a little bit left of Swanage I…
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The Guitar Circle meeting last weekend was in Massachusetts, this weekend in Dorset, and next weekend is in Seattle.
08.46 The weekend meals are characterized by quiet, with some silence.
Field Studies Base I…
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There is no mobile ‘phone reception here that I can find.
09.56 One personal meeting after breakfast, tai chi at 09.15.
10.58 The 10.00 Guitar Meeting succeeded in unseating us with displacements & hockets in 4 octaves on a simple 8 note figure, then the lower two figures in retrograde motion.
13.03 Personal meetings done & lunch 15 minutes late for 13.15.
One of the interesting features of this weekend: while circulating, one of the Team consistently placed their note late. This was not, it seemed to me, a question of bad time. More, a Governing Strategy in how the player organized the whole of their life, evidenced in one small facet of it. In our personal meeting we discussed this & came to the conclusion that, yes, this was a Governing Strategy rather than a feature of guitar playing.
14.35 Two more personal meetings & now about to leave this cold, bleak & windswept, handsome Dorset hillside. The team will remain with Luciano directing activities.
A valuable visit, for me.
18.34 Home!
22.12 Joy! An evening of practising.
"Discharge one small task superbly."
