This weekend
I'm not much for prognostication, just a way to lose bets as far as I'm concerned, but I will tell you what i hope will happen this weekend.
Friday is a dilemma; The Salon is Friday, but so is M's retirement party.
The party will involve strong drink, up to which I am not very much.
The next salon won't be for another two months, but it is very unlikely that there will ever be another retirement party.
No real decision.
I didn't get a retirement party, being as how I was the only employee and the only management and the only stockholder.
Saturday is the Bach unaccompanied cello performance by the Seattle Violincello Society
Saturday 10 am to whenever it's over.
Phinney Ridge Lutheran Church
7500 Greenwood ave N.
A whole bucketful of 'cello masters will be bowing and scraping their obeisance to the curly wigged genius.
I plan to be there.
Tuesday, I've promised someone we're all familiar with a walk in the woods.
I am hoping to follow that up with a visit to the Good Shepard Chapel to listen to
Elizabeth Falconer play her koto along with John Falconer playing his end blown japanese flute which I don't want to go to the trouble to look up the proper spelling of.
Wait a minnit! Sacahuci, sacahuake, phooey all the spell checker will give me is Sacajawea and earthquake.
You know what I'm talkin' about.
O all right I'll go find it. Hang on a mo'............shakuhachi...that's it
Ha! spell check offers mustachio, what a hoot.
Elizabeth Falconer complemented my music at an early salon.
The one where, Jeremy Reinhard, Stuart Zobel and Meighan Pritchard played my "Quasimodo's Dream Waltz" (piano, bass, and flute).
Elizabeth said she liked it.
Meighan said "Thank you for letting me play your music"
That Meighan.
None of the three charged me anything so I gave each one of them an instrument I made
Lemmesee, Stuart got a four string guitar
(he called it a quatro, he's from Venezuela )
Jeremy got a lyre (made by the grossdicke lyre company, a subsidiary of my fernhead fiddle company)
Meighan got a rebec which for some time she kept on her desk at work.
I think she might have had a desire to bash it over my head.
Which, in a way, I guess she did.
Wonder where it is now?
Oh, sweet mystery of life, where are you?
Over at Soho the dog?
Friday is a dilemma; The Salon is Friday, but so is M's retirement party.
The party will involve strong drink, up to which I am not very much.
The next salon won't be for another two months, but it is very unlikely that there will ever be another retirement party.
No real decision.
I didn't get a retirement party, being as how I was the only employee and the only management and the only stockholder.
Saturday is the Bach unaccompanied cello performance by the Seattle Violincello Society
Saturday 10 am to whenever it's over.
Phinney Ridge Lutheran Church
7500 Greenwood ave N.
A whole bucketful of 'cello masters will be bowing and scraping their obeisance to the curly wigged genius.
I plan to be there.
Tuesday, I've promised someone we're all familiar with a walk in the woods.
I am hoping to follow that up with a visit to the Good Shepard Chapel to listen to
Elizabeth Falconer play her koto along with John Falconer playing his end blown japanese flute which I don't want to go to the trouble to look up the proper spelling of.
Wait a minnit! Sacahuci, sacahuake, phooey all the spell checker will give me is Sacajawea and earthquake.
You know what I'm talkin' about.
O all right I'll go find it. Hang on a mo'............shakuhachi...that's it
Ha! spell check offers mustachio, what a hoot.
Elizabeth Falconer complemented my music at an early salon.
The one where, Jeremy Reinhard, Stuart Zobel and Meighan Pritchard played my "Quasimodo's Dream Waltz" (piano, bass, and flute).
Elizabeth said she liked it.
Meighan said "Thank you for letting me play your music"
That Meighan.
None of the three charged me anything so I gave each one of them an instrument I made
Lemmesee, Stuart got a four string guitar
(he called it a quatro, he's from Venezuela )
Jeremy got a lyre (made by the grossdicke lyre company, a subsidiary of my fernhead fiddle company)
Meighan got a rebec which for some time she kept on her desk at work.
I think she might have had a desire to bash it over my head.
Which, in a way, I guess she did.
Wonder where it is now?
Oh, sweet mystery of life, where are you?
Over at Soho the dog?
Labels: Cellohoochi
posted by Lane Savant at 11:35 AM
6 Comments:
My God, it is finally here, the divine Miss M's retirement party. Hey, I just realized that I, too, am married to a divine Miss M. Small world, enit?
I remember reading about your retirement party on the last page of the Nickel Ads, something like "Palmer Automotive Closes Its Doors for Good; Business in the Crapper; Landlord an asshole. Douglas Palmer,small business owner, manager, mechanic, janitor,
and composer stated,"I don't need no stinkin' retirement party! Fuggittaboutit!!" Quite the non-traditionialist actually, since there were several home owners and other business persons who over overjoyed that all those old wrecks would vacate the area, and beer was mentioned; although it was never made clear whether the libation was for them or him.
So Saturday, while I am in Dallas, I will be pondering on Bach and cellos and violins and Lane Savant roaming the Greenwood District near where PALMER AUTOMOTIVE used to brag about being the "Duke of Oil".
Christ,it snowed an inch in Sumner last night...snowed!! And the roads were icy as hell this morning on the way to the office. So here's hoping that your stroll in the forest is a dry and safe one. It could go south on you, sir.
You got me busy again:
Koto may refer to:
Koto (musical instrument), a Japanese musical instrument
Koto (traditional clothing), a traditional dress made by Creole women in Suriname
Koto (band), Italian synth pop group
Kōtō, Tokyo, a ward in Tokyo, Japan
The novel The Old Capital by Yasunari Kawabata, originally titled "Koto" in Japanese
The koto (琴 or 箏) is a traditional Japanese stringed musical instrument derived from Chinese zither (Guzheng)s. The koto is the national instrument of Japan.[1] Koto are about 180 centimetres (71 in) long and have 13 strings that are strung over 13 movable bridges along the length of the instrument. Players can adjust the string pitches by moving these bridges before playing, and use three finger picks (on thumb, forefinger, and middle finger) to pluck the strings.
The character for koto is also read as sō in certain contexts. Though often called by a number of other names, these terms almost always refer to similar, but different instruments, such as the Chinese guzheng (箏) or guqin (琴, called kin in Japanese
The influence of Western pop music has made the koto less prominent, although it is still developing as an instrument. Works are being written for 20- and 25-stringed kotos and 17-string bass kotos, and a new generation of players such as Kazue Sawai, Michiyo Yagi (who studied under Sawai) are finding places for the koto in today's jazz, experimental music and even pop.
June Kuramoto, of the jazz fusion group Hiroshima, was one of the first koto performers to popularize the koto in a non-traditional fusion style. David Bowie used the koto in the instrumental piece "Moss Garden" on his album "Heroes". Paul Gilbert, a popular shred guitarist, recorded his wife, Emi playing the koto on his song "Koto Girl" from the album Alligator Farm. JRock / Visual Kei band Kagrra, are well known for using traditional Japanese musical instruments in many of their songs, an example being "Utakata" (うたかた), a song where the koto has a prominent place.
Well-known solo performers outside of Japan include koto master and award-winning recording artist Elizabeth Falconer, who also studied for a decade at the esteemed Sawai Koto School in Tokyo, as well as koto master Linda Kako Caplan, Canadian Daishihan (Grandmaster) and a member of Fukuoka's Chikushi Koto School for over two decades. David Horvitz pioneered the instrument into the contemporary indie rock scene playing on Xiu Xiu's new album, The Air Force.[citation needed]
The 17-string bass koto, called jūshichi-gen in Japanese, has become more prominent over the years. The members of the band Rin' are perhaps some of the more famous jūshichi-gen players in the modern (pop/rock) music scene.[citation needed] The influence of the koto on Western music is also evident in jazz. The "in-sen" scale, a five note scale, was first introduced to jazz by John Coltrane and McCoy Tyner (another koto player) and is based on the tuning of the koto.
The progressive rock band Queen used a koto to great effect in their eight minute epic "The Prophet's Song" on their 1975 album A Night at the Opera.
The shakuhachi is a Japanese end-blown flute which is held vertically like a recorder, instead of transversely like the Western transverse flute. Its name means "1.8 foot", its size. It is traditionally made of bamboo, but versions now exist in wood and plastic. It was used by the monks of the Fuke sect of Zen Buddhism in the practice of suizen (blowing meditation). Its soulful sound made it popular in Western 1980s pop music.
It is said that in the medieval era there was also a martial art based around using a shakuhachi to defeat a swordsman. This is not entirely implausible, as the root end of a piece of bamboo (especially one with some root remnants intact) is extremely tough and heavy, making it effective as a blunt weapon. Further, many komusō were actually ronin, who would have been willing and able to learn a new martial art for protection if nothing else.
Shakuhachi has traditionally been played almost exclusively by men in Japan, although this situation is rapidly changing. Many teachers of traditional shakuhachi music indicate that a majority of their students are women. The 2004 Big Apple Shakuhachi Festival in New York City hosted the first-ever concert of international women shakuhachi masters.
Shakuhachi are often used in modern film scores, particularly ones by James Horner. Films in which it is featured prominently include: Legends of the Fall and Braveheart by James Horner, Jurassic Park and its sequels by John Williams and Don Davis, and The Last Samurai by Hans Zimmer.
QUASIMODO'S DREAM WALTZ--now that is a title to hook the masses. And hey, it was that very piece that put MP into some kind of manic-depressive state. And for you to bestow a quatro, a grossdicke lyre, and a rebec was graciousness that was off the chart. I wonder where all three instruments are? MP probably uses hers as a doorstop or a fly swatter or an adult sex toy.
We did most of our packing last night, but I always get the nagging feeling that I am forgetting something, a medication, more underwear, a good book--something. We ate dinner at an upscale restuarant in Puyallup called the LG Bistro, where a 6 oz. scrap of beef costs 20 bucks and the waitress can be condescending because Melva and I split an 8 buck salad. All the people around us seemed to be enjoying themselves. Don't know why I felt the place sucked.
Damn the snow, damn the torpedoes, and full steam ahead. It is 76 degrees in Texas.
Glenn
Hallo, Lane!
What's a rebec??
What are Stuart (who holds the record with you for being fired out of the Cuckuck's nest) and Jeremay doing now?? The current Soundbridge Supervisorette (AnneMarie) is a graduate of the New England Conservatory of Music; is that where Jeremy is??
The Principal Trombonist in the Mecklenburg Staatskapelle (Schwerin) is now in Venezuela for 3 months to teach trombone to the country's best young trombonists; is Staurt back in the first nation to elect a Socialist as President in a free election?? Several other Latin American countries have duplicated this feat, so there is hope for the world. For the USA, Obama seems the best hope in lieu of a Socialist.
Hopefully,
Anonomann
Hallo, Lane & Glenn!
The LL is also a "Ms. M"! (for Margrit).
Tschüß,
Anonomann
P.S. I just realized a certain psycho-flutist is also a "Miss M".
There's something about an "M" that does it to me.
Also see the first syllable of my favorite poets name.
Perhaps I should e-mail Jeremy and Stuart and see how they are doing.
A rebec is a small 3 or four string
instrument some times bowed, sometimes strummed or plucked.
Possibly a precursor to the violin.
There are many similar instruments,
medieval and pre-medieval with different names, non of which I can recall right at the moment.
Oh, oh, did you get the "Grossdicke Lyre" joke.
I think it's rather clever.
Hi sweetie, you could even spell my name M-L-E isn't that cute? LOL!
...............Emile
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