A couple more

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Slowly, surely, I’m regaining my reliable daily rhythm of walking, reading, practicing, studying. While things were a bit rough, though, the small screen distracted me well: the latest season of Only Murders in the Building, Law & Order, and Abbott Elementary, the uneven but charming English Teacher, the sordid Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story, and the first season of the dated but dear Murder, She Wrote. Kenneth Branagh never fails to delight me, so after rewatching his Henry V and Much Ado Nothing, I enjoyed Death on the Nile.

I tried to watch the film based on Banville’s The Sea, but despite a luminous Charlotte Rampal, it proved tedious. Perhaps it was too soon after reading the book? Speaking of which, it’s just about time for the discussion.

New books and whatnot

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If a body were to be likened to a car, then one could say that an aging body, like an older car, will eventually require more than an oil change, a multi-point inspection, a tire rotation, and an alignment to continue running (set aside smoothly). I’m an older car. More than one mechanic and more than one service appointment were required. And that’s really all I need say about that.

It’s back to walking several miles a day, practicing my music, reading, and studying. Today’s books are Pericles (in anticipation of this) and John Banville’s The Sea.

Notes

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Image taken at the Smart Museum of Art.


This week’s practice sheet:

🎶 Still working on pages 4 through 8 of Maquarre’s Daily Exercises for the Flute.

🎶 “Consolation” in Ernesto Köhler’s Twenty-Five Romantic Etudes (Op. 66).

🎶 My current solo piece, the Plamen Prodanov arrangement of Tchaikovsky’s “Autumn Song.”

🎶 Sonata No. in G by Jean-Baptiste Loeillet de Gant, the fourth and final movement, the gavotte. I am playing the first part in this duet.

🎶 In Interval Duets by Thomas Filas, the seventh duet, the second part.

🎶 In P. Bona’s Complete Method for Rhythmical Articulation, 120. Not sure I will spend much time on this in October, but it is on my sheet.

“The 50th”

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My images of detail from the following works (seen at the Smart Museum of Art):

✤ “Doors (3 Demolition)” by Gertrude Abercrombie (1957)
✤ “The City” by Alice Neel (undated)
✤ “Title unknown” by Norman Lewis (1947)
✤ “The Snowflower Quilting Bee at Arles” by Faith Ringgold (1996)
✤ “Harbor in Light” by Arthur Dove (1929)