How are you?

[lucylucy]

i'm very fineeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee 

[pianogirl88]

How am I?

*sighs*

[go12_3]

I've been so busy that things are going well for me.  Feeling fine today.  Yes, indeed.
Say pianogirl, what is the *sigh* about?  hum? 

[bella_brito]

Vacaaaaaations! Tomorrow will be my last day before vacations. *o*
I'll get up late, watch TV shows, practice piano, read some books talk with my online friend... it will be awesome!
But there's a calculus test between me and vacations. ugh

[Bob]

Very tired.  Cooked.

[go12_3]

Very tired and bored and my brain won't function right now.....need to take a nap....

[weissenberg2]

Your quintet?

Have you ever actually heard this piece? (which happens to be one of my favorite chamber pieces, and my favorite quintet)

[pianogirl88]

I've been so busy that things are going well for me.  Feeling fine today.  Yes, indeed.
Say pianogirl, what is the *sigh* about?  hum? 

*sighs* Life. In general..

[go12_3]

*sighs* Life. In general..

Yes, I know what you mean....

[ahinton]

Have you ever actually heard this piece? (which happens to be one of my favorite chamber pieces, and my favorite quintet)

It's really most kind of you to say so - indeed, I much appreciate your remark - but I think that Thal was referring here o the piano quintet on which I am currently working (my string quintet having been completed long ago!); I've no idea if Thal has heard any of my string quintet, but perhaps he will tell us in his own unique fashion...

Best,

Alistair

[thalbergmad]

Have you ever actually heard this piece? (which happens to be one of my favorite chamber pieces, and my favorite quintet)

Oh yes.

I never forget the first time i heard it. It was a summer afternoon and i was relaxing with a nice wine and a good cigar. The patio doors were open and a gentle fragrant breeze drifted through the room. Then as the first bars wafted out of the speakers....................

To be continued.

Thal

[ahinton]

Oh yes.

I never forget the first time i heard it. It was a summer afternoon and i was relaxing with a nice wine and a good cigar. The patio doors were open and a gentle fragrant breeze drifted through the room. Then as the first bars wafted out of the speakers....................

To be continued.

I'm sure that we are all agog to hear the next instalment - not so much about my string quintet or your reactions to it, of course, but about Thal "relaxing with a nice wine and a cigar"; this is so unlike the Thal that we have come to know that I am beginning to worry about whether my quintet was in any way responsible for this wholly uncharacteristic sounding change in your conduct.

I hope that purchasing this 3-CD set didn't break your credit card in half (although if you managed to purchase some decent wine and cigars afterwards, it would most fortunately seem that it didn't)...

Anyway - as you were...

Best,

Alistair

[ahbach]

I feel tired.....yet I know I can't crawl in bed and live there for the next 6 months, because I have too much to do!!!! sigh and I'll only become more tired!!! oh well I just keep on keeping on! 

[go12_3]

I only had 4 hours of sleep last night and I am wound up because something happened that I did....and really, I ache inside,  but I have to keep on going.....

[thalbergmad]

I only had 4 hours of sleep last night and I am wound up because something happened that I did....and really, I ache inside

I dread to think.

Must have been a really good session.

Thal

[ahinton]

I dread to think.

Oh, no - not again!...

[go12_3]

Must have been a really good session.

No, session, just life's experiences that I have to deal with.  I'm okay today though, although real tired.

[ahbach]

I have a slight head ache....I feel like dozing on the couch with one of my favorite Bach pieces playing quietly in the back ground.....

[thalbergmad]

I have always found Bach good for curing headaches and Sorabji good for starting them.

Thal

[ahinton]

I have always found Bach good for curing headaches and Sorabji good for starting them.

So what (if anything) do you make of Sorabji's profound admiration for and love of Bach? How do you account for this in any terms, although specifically (in the present context) that of creating and alleviating alleged headaches)?

Best,

Alistair

[thalbergmad]

So what (if anything) do you make of Sorabji's profound admiration for and love of Bach?

I would be more interested in what Bach would think of Sorabji than what Sorabji thought of Bach.

Unfortunately, this is not possible, as i expect they went to a different heaven.

Thal

[thalbergmad]

I am feeling tired now, but it has been a most enjoyable weekend.

I have been working on my theory that all German Romantic composers restrained themselves. However, my theory began to fall apart with Brull and Kullak.

Back to the drawing board.

Thal

[ahinton]

I would be more interested in what Bach would think of Sorabji than what Sorabji thought of Bach.

Unfortunately, this is not possible, as i expect they went to a different heaven.

Your expectation does neither composer - or you - any credit. We can know something of what Sorabji thought of Bach because there is published evidence of this; there could not, of course, have been similar evidence in the opposite direction, however much your interest might have been inclined towards knowing about it. It is therefore this, rather than what you suggest here, that is the reason why it "is not possible". What, however, might you mean (if anything) by "a different heaven" in this context?

Best,

Alistair

[go12_3]

Well, I had a good night's sleep which is a good thing for me!  I have a busy day ahead of me...
Need to pack up for my trip to Montana for a stay there until this weekend....ah, I am looking forward to the big sky country!   I love those mountains everywhere!   Yes, I am having a vacation!  No students to teach !  I'm leaving tomorrow.... woo hoo!   I'm going to work on my art---some sketching to do and take photos too.  The scenery is just breath-taking. 

best wishes,

go12_3

[concerto_love]

Umm... my father went to Venezuela and Brazil to do some works there. It's kinda lonely here... Me fine anyway... Tomorrow will be my first day car driving lesson 

[tanman]

Tomorrow will be my first day car driving lesson 

 
good luck!
I was supposed to start mine 6 months ago 

[pianochick93]

I started mine, and now I'm onto manual cars. hehehe.

I am very tired, and slightly energized by coffee. Last night I got no sleep, thanks to Memoirs of a Geisha. I was reading it all night.

[ahbach]

I'm good.....considering the fact that I havent played a piano in over two weeks.....just too busy with life....why can't piano just be life?? 

[thalbergmad]

Gawd, another 2 women on the road.

[communist]

I am better then I have ever been after I listened to

[go12_3]

Hey,  I'm back from my trip.....miss my piano and violin...good to be home though.  Been online for over an hour!   

[ahbach]

I'm feeling good...I've felt better but I finally got to play on the piano for a bit...it wasn't long enough but the time I had will have to do....

[Bob]

Tired.  Starting to wonder where all the older/previous posters on the forum have gone. 

[go12_3]

I'm happy now that I got my lap top back from repairs.....I missed it for two days!  It had
a problem and I had to take it to a computer repair shop.  Well, I hope to be back this time!
    I miss the forum and glad to be around. 

[tanman]

I am...





SLEEEEPPYYYY

*yawn

[go12_3]

I am not quite sure how I am at the moment.....some things are on my mind....

[pianogirl88]

I'm....upset. Everything I do seems to be wrong. And I'm almost to the point where I can't deal with it any longer.

[db05]

I'm....upset. Everything I do seems to be wrong. And I'm almost to the point where I can't deal with it any longer.

Same, except that I AM at the point where I can't deal with it anymore.

[thalbergmad]

What is it with you youngsters??

You have all your life ahead of you and much to look forward to.

Thal

[db05]

What is it with you youngsters??

You have all your life ahead of you and much to look forward to.

Thal

I'm lonely.

Not without american_girl...

[go12_3]

I'm....upset. Everything I do seems to be wrong. And I'm almost to the point where I can't deal with it any longer.

Join the club, I was at that point two weeks ago. 
Just let it go and move on.  That's what I have to do in order to survive with the circumstances coming my way.  It's how you look at what you do may seem wrong but it is a process that you are going through.  I have a thought to share with you,

Sometimes we must be hurt in order to grow.
Sometimes we must fail in order to know.
Sometimes we must lose in order to gain.
Because some lessons in life are best learned through pain.

[Bob]

Tired.  Feeling strange. Maybe it's the raw pizza?  Forgot to eat supper and I'm starving but not hungry at the same time.  Maybe I'm getting sick.... Blech....

[ahbach]

Because some lessons in life are best learned through pain.

I would like to know exactly what my lesson is so I can get rid of this horrible head ache that seems to attack me every afternoon and stay until the next morning!!!..I'm at my wits end with this head ache!!! It's getting very old!! sigh...oh well....maybe I should see a doctor??

[go12_3]

I would like to know exactly what my lesson is so I can get rid of this horrible head ache that seems to attack me every afternoon and stay until the next morning!!!..I'm at my wits end with this head ache!!! It's getting very old!! sigh...oh well....maybe I should see a doctor??

Then see a doctor, if your headache troubles you most of the time. 

[go12_3]

I am so dog tired!  I sketched a portrait of someone since 3:30am....not much sleep either.
And the worst part of it, that I don't like how this portrait turned out!  So I need to make some changes to it....ugh....even art takes work and effort and time.  And I can hardly play piano this morning either.  My brain is mush right now....but I must keep GOing. 

[cai hong]

been very down lately

[go12_3]

been very down lately

Here's a *hug*  for you!  Take care! 

best wishes,

go12_3

[go12_3]

I have one massive headache since noon yesterday.....and I'm miserable and can't play
piano and violin....     
the head hurts like it's in a vice grip and it zaps off and on. 
I can't think clearly now!  And I want to cry....

[pianowolfi]

Tired.  Feeling strange. Maybe it's the raw pizza?  Forgot to eat supper and I'm starving but not hungry at the same time.  Maybe I'm getting sick.... Blech....

Tired? I always read that from you. Might be CFS. I very often (well actually every day) feel tired and exhausted too, and sometimes I thought it might be CFS...

[thalbergmad]

Tired? I always read that from you. Might be CFS. I very often (well actually every day) feel tired and exhausted too, and sometimes I thought it might be CFS...

With all those clocks going off, I am amazed you get any sleep at all.

Thal