Stupid '90s commercials getting stuck in my head...
30 thoughts on “May 25, 2016: Fall into the Gap”
Received word yesterday that my nephew won a job with the Detroit Symphony! Starting this fall, he will be their assistant principal timpanist. We are all extremely proud of him.
That's awesome. It must be so cool to get such a rare job, in a field that requires such perfection.
Coincidentally, yesterday I was trying to introduce my kids to timpani music. We used Fanfare for the Common Man and Also Sprach Zarathustra. If he has better recs, feel free to forward them.
I played timpani on 2001: A Space Odyssey and Planets in high school. Good times.
(present throughout, but solo at 2:55)
The last movement of Shostakovich's masterful Fifth Symphony:
httpv://youtu.be/ogJFXqYEYd8
(Feel the Bern!)
с удовольствием!
music to your ears!
congrats to him. the classical music business is a tough one.
Must be hard to break into. I hear they hold onto their jobs until the very end.
And when they do go I've heard they go out with a bang.
Indeed. The effect is quite striking.
I'm sure he's devoted countless hours of his life to the practice of that craft; congratulations to him!
He has, indeed. He's been practicing several hours a day since he was in grade school. My understanding is as stated above, that it is a very hard business to break into--there's a very limited number of jobs, and the people who have them tend to keep them until they retire or die. Being a percussionist with an orchestra is something he's wanted to do since he was a kid--really the only thing he's wanted to do--and we're really pleased that he's going to be able to do it.
I hear musicians can be very temperamental. But boy can they count!
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AwYhcv71Ui8
And so it begins, the cottonwoods are dropping crap like crazy already. The offer still stands - anyone who wants some firewood can come chop down a few of them in my front yard. I'll buy lots of beer.
What about trades for maple trees? It won't be long until our driveway is described as organic rather than asphalt.
been there, done that
My gutters are pretty much just compost troughs.
Buddy Boshers? Why not? What difference does it make anyway?
The 8-man Bullpen Era begun!
I might be the only person here at all interested in this topic, but I am really excited that the Indy 500 is sold out this year.
I grew up 15 minutes from the track and spent so many days there with my dad and make it back for the race almost every year. It has been disappointing to see the sport wither over the last 20 years for various reasons, mostly from self-inflicted wounds, but at least this Sunday I hope to experience a crowd reminiscent of the ones I was part of back in the 80s as a kid. For me there's nothing like hearing taps, "Back Home Again in Indiana," and the start of the race; gives me chills every time.
I'm a racing fan, although more in the rally and vintage sports car genres. When I was a kid, and again after I left home, Pa was a mechanic on an ice racing team. Growing up he raced motocross and worked on race cars owned by his dad's customers.
I grew up in and near Indiana so I have a fondness for the 500, too. It's the one race I always pay attention to every year. I remember in 1968, our summer vacation trip to Tulsa took us through Indianapolis on race day and we were stuck in traffic for what seemed like forever. The consolation was that in St. Louis we got to see some of of the last pieces of the Gateway Arch being put into place. A lot of my friends got to go see the time trials when we lived there, but it seems to me tickets for the race were hard to come by back then.
So I ate lunch at the local pizza place and they had the Twins game on and a few people cheered when Nunez and Dozier went back to back then Joe Mauer came up and the ladies (probably in their late 60s/early 70s) in the booth next to my table were discussing last night and how dumb Mauer is for striking out with the bases load and then complained about how he doesnt get RBIs.
sigh
In their defense, they are just echoing Souhan, Barreiro, etc.
True.
Or maybe they hang out in the Strib comment section!
Mauer for Player-Manager:
Sano on what he’s learned so far in his sophomore season: “I’ve learned a lot and I’m still learning. Today, Joe (Mauer) told me to hit the ball up the middle, and I did that. I listened to them and I hit the ball out. It’s a learning process.”
Received word yesterday that my nephew won a job with the Detroit Symphony! Starting this fall, he will be their assistant principal timpanist. We are all extremely proud of him.
That's awesome. It must be so cool to get such a rare job, in a field that requires such perfection.
Coincidentally, yesterday I was trying to introduce my kids to timpani music. We used Fanfare for the Common Man and Also Sprach Zarathustra. If he has better recs, feel free to forward them.
I played timpani on 2001: A Space Odyssey and Planets in high school. Good times.
(present throughout, but solo at 2:55)
The last movement of Shostakovich's masterful Fifth Symphony:
httpv://youtu.be/ogJFXqYEYd8
(Feel the Bern!)
с удовольствием!
music to your ears!
congrats to him. the classical music business is a tough one.
Must be hard to break into. I hear they hold onto their jobs until the very end.
And when they do go I've heard they go out with a bang.
Indeed. The effect is quite striking.
I'm sure he's devoted countless hours of his life to the practice of that craft; congratulations to him!
He has, indeed. He's been practicing several hours a day since he was in grade school. My understanding is as stated above, that it is a very hard business to break into--there's a very limited number of jobs, and the people who have them tend to keep them until they retire or die. Being a percussionist with an orchestra is something he's wanted to do since he was a kid--really the only thing he's wanted to do--and we're really pleased that he's going to be able to do it.
I hear musicians can be very temperamental. But boy can they count!
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AwYhcv71Ui8
And so it begins, the cottonwoods are dropping crap like crazy already. The offer still stands - anyone who wants some firewood can come chop down a few of them in my front yard. I'll buy lots of beer.
What about trades for maple trees? It won't be long until our driveway is described as organic rather than asphalt.
been there, done that
My gutters are pretty much just compost troughs.
Buddy Boshers? Why not? What difference does it make anyway?
The 8-man Bullpen Era begun!
I might be the only person here at all interested in this topic, but I am really excited that the Indy 500 is sold out this year.
I grew up 15 minutes from the track and spent so many days there with my dad and make it back for the race almost every year. It has been disappointing to see the sport wither over the last 20 years for various reasons, mostly from self-inflicted wounds, but at least this Sunday I hope to experience a crowd reminiscent of the ones I was part of back in the 80s as a kid. For me there's nothing like hearing taps, "Back Home Again in Indiana," and the start of the race; gives me chills every time.
I'm a racing fan, although more in the rally and vintage sports car genres. When I was a kid, and again after I left home, Pa was a mechanic on an ice racing team. Growing up he raced motocross and worked on race cars owned by his dad's customers.
I grew up in and near Indiana so I have a fondness for the 500, too. It's the one race I always pay attention to every year. I remember in 1968, our summer vacation trip to Tulsa took us through Indianapolis on race day and we were stuck in traffic for what seemed like forever. The consolation was that in St. Louis we got to see some of of the last pieces of the Gateway Arch being put into place. A lot of my friends got to go see the time trials when we lived there, but it seems to me tickets for the race were hard to come by back then.
So I ate lunch at the local pizza place and they had the Twins game on and a few people cheered when Nunez and Dozier went back to back then Joe Mauer came up and the ladies (probably in their late 60s/early 70s) in the booth next to my table were discussing last night and how dumb Mauer is for striking out with the bases load and then complained about how he doesnt get RBIs.
sigh
In their defense, they are just echoing Souhan, Barreiro, etc.
True.
Or maybe they hang out in the Strib comment section!
Mauer for Player-Manager:
excellent