Archive for October, 2006

Hallowe’en

Monday, October 30th, 2006

Two points.

  1. When did Hallowe’en lose its apostrophe? It always had one when I was a kid; now it seems to be “halloween” everywhere…
  2. When did it become such a big deal? It seems every shop is full of cheap plastic pumpkins and witches hats. I’m sure someone could write something erudite about how the secularisation of Britain has combined with the shops’ need to have something to fill the space between “Back To School” and “Christmas”…

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Wednesday, October 11th, 2006

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Lego Ice Cubes

Thursday, October 5th, 2006

I found this - it lets you make ice cubes in the shape of Lego bricks! How cool!

I have ordered some :-)

Piano piano piano

Monday, October 2nd, 2006

BBC 4 has recently had a season of programmes relating to the piano. There was coverage of the Leeds International Pianoforte Competition, as well as a number of excellent documentaries, including a fascinating programme about the life and recordings of Glenn Gould. I would highly recommend watching any of them when they are repeated (as they surely will be since they are on one of the BBC’s digital channels).

I’ve also started listening to more Keith Jarrett, and I’ve produced a basic transcription of his improvisation Radiance #8.

Watching the Gould programme made me go back and listen again to his awesome recordings of the Goldberg Variations. It’s such a fantastic piece - I’ve ordered the sheet music online.

I’m going to find out exactly what damage only playing on an electric piano has done to my technique…