So I came up for a title for my symphony piece! It’s going to be called “Analogue” because it is more organic than “Internet” and “Internet” was supposed to sound digital. Also, what a neat word. I am halfway through the skeleton of my score, and am going to have a short score done by next week, hypothetically. Hypothetically! I think I shall, though, when I actually sit down and focus I am super-productive.

I had a composition lesson yesterday (which was a double, with Matt Vandersluys whose compositions remind of Yann Tiersen, which is *awesome*), and an oboe lesson the day before (in which I got both my studies crossed off). Now I am solidly into exams. I finished my first one an hour ago, and I happy about it, but a little sad because it was a great course! Cyborg Fictions, taught by Andrea Austin.

Whoa, I just got back to my computer and realized I did not post this. So I am back from the oboe dinner at Jim’s! He made curry, and Aimee’s chocolate fountain was *awesome*. We are probably going to have it at the Oboesoon Band concert, so you should come! Anyway, before dinner we listened to a bunch of recordings of Tombeau, and after dinner we compared recordings of Scheherezade. And we watched a 1976 video of the Philadelphia Orchestra under Eugene Ormandy playing “The Planets,” “Pictures at an Exhibition,” and “La Mer,” which was cool, because Jim would stop and tell stories about DeLancie and Woodhams and Curtis and Ormandy. And then we watched a bunch of old videos of Jim playing oboe (including one where he talked about oboe on “Oopsy the Clown”) and *then* we watched an 80’s pop music video that Jim was in by an artist called Octavian, who is secretly the timpanist of the KWS. There were a few videos, and one had Jim, and a couple had Tommy Kay, who is the principal flute of the KWS, and they were fantastic. Fantastically hilarious and awful.

Example:

(Tommy Kay is the bartender. He is in this video also. Hilarious! I can’t find the one with Jim, unfortunately, but it is called “Susan,” so if you find it, let me know!)Anyway, it was super-fun to sit around Jim’s fireplace and watch old-timey orchestra videos and drink raspberry chai and listen to stories. Oboe parties! They are awesome!

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