I think I have my bearings now. Grad school is actually going well. I'm happy with my writing and looking forward to next semester's classes. After a few days of seeimg to not play a single note in tune, I've been scraping on the douçaine reeds, rediscovering my embouchure, and finding that I really can play the thing. My research on it has been going well. I like the tone of the first paper, so I have high hopes for the historiography.
My last couple of rehearsals with Jen have seen me playing douçaine instead of bass clarinet. Things started coming together really nicely today. Our first faculty recital of the season at NNU is coming up in less than two weeks, and for the first time, I am doubling on both instruments. We are doing some medieval dances, 5 Machaut ballades and virelais, some di Lasso ricercari, and the Hert setting of O Rosa Bella. With bass clarinet we are doing a few works from our CDs and some South American music. She asked if we could do some medieval music with me on BC (to help sell some CDs) and I agreed, but I came home and arranged some Bozza to do on douçaine. It will be a really fun program.
I'm looking forward to her getting a vielle, but In the meantime she is refitting a viola with gut strings and some other adjustments.
I had a great time playing some landini with Joe on lute today. It's nice to be able to play the top parts on some of those. I'm usually relegated to tenor or contratenor parts, which is fine.
I also commissioned a douçaine and organ piece from Ray this week. I asked for a piece that we could do in mass, at the AGO convention in 2011 and on my graduate recital.
very fun stuff...
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