My Mission: One holiday-themed, non-carol song every day between now & Christmas. It's my own version of an Advent calendar. I may succeed, I may fail, but there will at least be some good music posted ... music you won't hear at the mall, that hopefully won't make you end up looking like him. ----->
Day 10: "Christmas Lullaby" from Songs For a New World.(Performed July 2010, Lauren Tompkins, voice, yours truly on piano. I'm partly including this so Sam has more ammunition to talk about my alleged Jason Robert Brown obsession.)
My Mission: One holiday-themed, non-carol song every day between now & Christmas. It's my own version of an Advent calendar. I may succeed, I may fail, but there will at least be some good music posted ... music you won't hear at the mall, that hopefully won't make you end up looking like him. ----->
So I start today, December 1st, with Jason Robert Brown's "Surabaya Santa," from Songs For a New World.
I've been trying to get some pictures posted from last week's production of Songs For a New World, but I'm having difficulties. My computer doesn't read the DVD that has the pictures on it, so I need to use the computer lab at school. I sifted through the 500+ pictures today and started putting a few up on Facebook. When I tried to get them on the website, it said they loaded but they never showed up. I'm not sure if the files are too large (about 10 MB each), and I need to compress them, or what exactly the issue is. I hope to get pictures up soon, and maybe some video clips when I get a copy (but that could bring about a whole other host of difficulties) ...
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(Subtitled "An Encounter with T.S. Monk")
I'm an enthusiastic person. I get easily excited about things, and tend to dive in head first to topics and projects, which usually then ends up with me being burned out and either leaving something unfinished or wanting to avoid the topic forever. I dislike this aspect of me, and one of the things I work on constantly is to level out - not my enthusiasm, necessarily, but how much work I do, so I can sustain it. "It's a marathon, not a sprint" sort of idea ... (read more)
My Mission: One holiday-themed, non-carol song every day between now & Christmas. It's my own version of an Advent calendar. I may succeed, I may fail, but there will at least be some good music posted ... music you won't hear at the mall, that hopefully won't make you end up looking like him. ----->
(Performed July 2010, Lauren Tompkins, voice, yours truly on piano. I'm partly including this so Sam has more ammunition to talk about my alleged Jason Robert Brown obsession.)