Lazy Monday?

Didn't do much today on anything musical. A bag of multi-sided dice came yesterday and I'm still thinking of how to use them. Diatonically with the eight sided ones, or chromatically with the twelve side ones? What about rhythm? Dynamics? Orchestration? I'm sure I'll figure it out eventually. If anyone has suggestions please leave me a comment.

While I didn't get anything on paper today I did sit and think a bit about the Hashkiveinu setting while I was waiting for an appointment. I think I see how to fix it, but I'll have to put in a good work session before I'll see if it actually works. I need to do something so that I can give it to the cantorial soloist at our rehearsal on Wednesday and the choir on Thursday.

It was a little disheartening to realize that I've accidentally lifted so much mood and shape from Barber's Knoxville Summer of 1915, but like I said to Victoria when she pointed it out last week, at least I'm stealing from a good source. I'd be thrilled to have written that piece. I'm just going to embrace it and go with it. Steal big or stay home, right?

Seriously, I don't think anyone is going to mistake my piece for Barber's, but it was a nice compliment from Victoria to be compared to such a fine composer and piece.

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