January 2020 – An Echo That's Reversing

Impeachment

(diary)

Fri 31 Jan 2020

For the past 3+ years political events have compounded daily to the horrible then more horrible; this week compressed that and moved the catalyst of horribleness from Trump to (mostly) the Republican Senators. What they’ve done is shocking.

Orchestral Studies, updated audio

Orchestral Study #1 (flowing and hymn-like), audio 1b

Orchestral Study #2 (driving and chaotic), audio 1b

Orchestral Study #3 (adagio with melisma), audio 1b

Orchestral Study #4 (allegro), audio 1b

I’m working on updating the audio for my 12 Orchestral Studies from their original MIDI output, using Dorico notation software and its HALion instrument libraries. I will probably just work on a few of the 12 in order to learn the new software and to not re-hash the pieces that really don’t deserve re-hashing. First one is the first one.

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Impeachment

(diary)

Thu 23 Jan 2020

We’ve been going through the House’s presentation to the Senate. The Senate with at times almost 20 Republicans away from their desks and missing from the room. Lindsey Graham left when he saw that the video of him was about to be played, from 1999, where he argued that a crime doesn’t need to be committed for there to be an impeachable offense. This absence is cowardly and illegal… but nothing will be done. Reporters have been blocked from contact with the Senators during recesses. The Senate Republicans are doing their best to hide from any confrontation about their accountability.

Die Teufel von Loudun

Some random notes:

I was looking for more modern operas to watch after I rewatched Wozzeck and Lulu on DVD recently. The performance of the reduced arrangement of Ligeti’s opera Mysteries of the Macabre rekindled my research.

Impeachment

(diary)

Fri 17 Jan 2010

The feeling of history doesn’t go away. The feeling that we’re right in the middle of it now like we haven’t been for our lifetimes and probably our parents. There was a grimness from day one. Some conservative friends said, about a month ago, that they never expected it to be this bad. Bad, but in the form of just-not-a-very-good-president bad and not to the degree and depths that we’ve gone. There’s no satisfaction in seeing that the sky is, in fact, falling. I credit Sarah Kendzior with the assessment: “there is no bottom” though not sure if it was her words or sentiments.