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So, if bus service is cancelled, don't you have to get work anyway?
If it's the same problem I had, it's as simple as clicking the "Details" button at the bottom of the window. It took me nearly 10 minutes to realize that button meant something.
With no car, storm on the way, and I think she said it's a few miles to work, I think it's a snow day.
Dana
I ended up teaching myself basic theory. Despite having piano lessons (from a neighbor) from the age of 7 until 15 all I learned was how to read notes & move fingers to the right spot on the keyboard. No serious emphasis on scales, very little on chords, and totally ignorant of composition styles. Nice lady but no real music background but she was cheap and available. I ended up just a frustrated amateur.
After college and eventually when I had an apartment of my own I retrieved my old spinet piano from home and started relearning. I practiced scales, I figured out chords, I re-invented the circle-of-fifths and made my own design for a musical sliderule with all sorts of cyclic music information on it for quick reference and for easy transposing. I worked my way up through better and better pianos, I began to make my own music instead of mimicing what other people had written down. I never got very far with my own music but I was able to show off a few times. However, my real skill still lay in being able to play what other people wrote down. Beethoven, Schubert, Mozart, Chopin, Saint-saens, Rachmaninoff, Ravel, etc. I have no training at all of composition and structure and I was never was able to play an entire piano concerto but with persistence I came close with the Saint-Saens Piano concerto #4, playing most of of the 1st movement and about half of the 2nd movement (no 3rd movement in this concerto unless you count the transition at 19:21). And without an orchestra to play along with me I played the melodies of the orchestra parts when the piano parts were simply accompanyment to the orchestra. I attempted all 5 of Saint-saens' piano concertos and knew small parts of all of them. I loved them. He wrote for piano the way I liked to play piano. Lots of arpeggios and bouncing chords.
I think that if I'd had a better piano teacher at the beginning, I might have gone another direction in my life. Now, it's just a fond memory.
Saint-saens: Piano Concerto #4: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hd5tyvpTHqU
0:00 --- Kind of a strange beginning
4:37 --- nice arpeggios
5:25 --- flutes introduce the main theme that comes to fruition on the piano later on at 19:21
7:45 --- variations on the theme.
9:46 --- delightful arpeggios
10:54 --- gentle restatement of the theme and soft closing of the 1st movement
12:15 --- Beginning of 2nd movement. (sort of an early 1920's feel to the music at the beginning)
13:25 --- Sort of a jumping rhythmic dance
17:40 --- Restatement of the main theme in a mournful mood, building to a climax just before the clear presentation of the main theme which up to this time has been only peeking out now and then and heavily disguised.
19:21 thru 20:29 --- Clear, unambiguous aggressive statement of the main theme in single notes by the piano, which the orchestra then echoes while the piano accompanies with chords (I don't particularly care for how this pianist plays the accompaniment here. It seems sloppy and out of sync Phillipe Entremont does it much better. But I admit, it's very difficult to get right. I never did.). The single note statement of the theme comes in two parts separated by the orchestra restatements. But the two simple piano sections cover every note but one in the octave by subtle arrangement of key shifts without sounding discordant. I love that melody and to this day still whistle it or hear it in my head.
dum-dum-de-dum, da-dum-da-de-dum-dum, dum-dum-de-dum-de-dum-da-da-de-dum .... 
21:20 --- Orchestra picks up the main theme and plays it in full grand style. Then the piano continues to play the main theme in ever increasingly complicated and more grand variations as it comes to the finale along with the orchestra. Marvelous arpeggios throughout. Grand chords. Dynamic finish.
Inever got far with classical piano. I had six months of classical piano lessons, my goal piece was the first movement of the Moonlight Sonata and the teacherliterally told me I had no hope of learning it. :-/ Despite that, I managed to bash my wat about 3/4 through before classes ended. I love 'Moonlight', my fave piano piece. The lessons improved my synth playing incredibly so it was worth the time. I still prefer guitar,but keys are my second best instrument.
Given that I compose ambient/soundscape and cinematic, there's not much use for guitar right now... :-|
It's time for COLD PIZZA AND DIET PEPSI!! Wheeeeeeeeeeeee!!!
Later on, will break out the wodka and diet Coke whilst watching cooking shows. Good times!
Piano was the only instrument I made any real progress with. I could make noises on the violin, flute and guitar and flub through a short piece of music but not really play it. Not even organ. I tried to play the organ like a piano and that just doesn't work.
. Whole different style of playing. But piano made me happy and I could let loose. But I have't even touched one in the last 10 years. 
Pizza or body parts? o.O
grumble-grumble mumble-mumble.
I need four more posts to break into the 700 Club and I can't think of anything else to complain about. GRRR! I HATE being so limited!
Trying to play an organ while being used to piano is trippy.
..got it, thanks Didn't see a button but just clicked on the bottom corner to expand the window and all the tabs came back.
Awww. :-( I hope you get to play again someday. :-(
Pizza, of course. I'm already missing body parts, can't lose more. :-/
It's a great day to grumble
And to wobble and bumble
Over steps you may stumble
But always stay humble
Just try not to fumble!!!
Organ is a completely different beast...
...indeed since the organ has no sustain mechanism like a piano (save for some makes of cinema organ). Once you remove your hands form the keys and feet from the pedals the sound stops. Same for the harpsichord, though Pleyel, a known maker of fine pianos in Paris (Chopin's preferred builder) developed a harpsichord with independent dampers, a heavy piano like case, and metal frame that looked more like a dual keyboard piano than the delicate instrument of the 16th - 18th centuries.
Holding notes on the keys on an organ or harpsichord to play smooth legato chord changes meant knowing how to do "substitutions" which effectively involves changing fingers on the same key while it is still held down. A similar technique is used on the pedals of the organ with the feet. In large cathedrals with long delay (what is called a "wet" acoustic environment) one can "get away" with having to do little substitution as there is enough reverberative "blur" to cover the transition between notes. In fact, a lot of organ music from the French romantic era was very pianistic in style and has been found to involve more articulation and tempo rubato than originally thought (one of my former organ instructors is also a scholar on 18th and 19th century French organ music and stressed using a more pianistic technique).
In drier acoustic settings, substitution is necessary so it doesn't sound like everything is being played in détaché style (for example Cesar Franck's Cantabile requires extremely smooth transitions between chords in the left hand).
Ah, a generic complaint.
To finish up my blathering about music for today, I found a YouTube of Phillipe Entremont playing the 2nd movement of Saint-Saens 4th piano concerto. His treatment of the piano chords played during the 2nd movement's clear statement of the main theme is both better played and better recorded, it doesn't overpower the orchestra and isn't out of phase with the orchestra. He has a good feel for how those chords should fit in at that point. Very simple couple of measures of music but very difficult to play well.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=du9aGwl6am8 See the minute and a half section between 1:39 and 2:50 IMHO this is a much better performance than the one I linked to previously.
absolutely not!!!!
i tell ya fresh crispy celery just as good as potato chips specially in dill dip
snowy sky dump at full vigor, snowflakes so fat i can see em without my eyeglasses
next luau party snack, butterpecan ice cream with sliced banana
i might even get 2 snowdays from ths storm
looks so lovely outside the window, world looks like a dish of ice cream
over 20 miles.
my 1 regret, snowed in with mo marshmallow fluff
is not a sherazad kinda evening?
O mio babbino caro?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRuYQ9KRJms One of the very few vocals I enjoy.
Word.
That was lovely ............
I decided that I am not going to breed my guppies. However I do not know how to communicate in Guppy to say no more breeding.
Morning. All quiet here under a big bright blue sky without even the hint of rain. Our garden is very dry, has been less than 2mm of rain each month since last Christmas :)
...with chilly wet weather on the way for the next couple days bones and joints have been aching something fierce. At least the threat of white stuff fro the sky has been taken out for Saturday, (now low 50s and partly sunny), but the next two days will be reverting back to January like weather. Actually laid down for a while it was so bad. Ran out of ibuprofen but got a coupon for a free bottle of aspirin at the nearby market which will help in a pinch.
So this is what, the fourth nor'easter? Yeah, don't think I could hack living there with my bones and joints. Bad enough where I am and weather transitions here are more gradual.
I almost bought a smartphone for $5. I noticed that the operating system is four or five years old. Some modern apps won't run on an old operating system. Plus, it might be too slow for me. I'm glad that I read the description before I bought the phone.