* Sadly, between some health concerns (my dad's severe osteoarthritis that makes car travel for much distance uncomfortable) and other commitments, my parents coming to see me is really not possible. I dunno. I'll manage. I always manage. I'm not happy about it but I manage.
* The cardinals (or one of the offspring of the pair of last year) are apparently building in my holly bush again. They picked a bummer of a day for it though as it's been very windy and I think part of the partially-started nest blew down
* At least my sewing machine sounds like it's running better after oiling. I found the "quick start" card for it (how to thread it, etc.) but not the book. Maybe I never actually had the book and am misremembering? Maybe I just break down and tell myself I can afford the $10 for the copy of the manual that's available online.
* I got a couple more blocks done but will admit I didn't feel the same level of contentment sewing usually gives me. I guess I just have to hang on and eventually I will find something to feel cheerful about again.
* I did also get enough hand-quilting done on the current quilt to "move" it in the frame (to a new empty section).
* This is a slightly different arrangement (and is for big band, not piano) than what I am doing, but this is one of the pieces I am working on for my new round of lessons:
and a version with the lyrics:
(Kate Smith! Could someone like her become famous today, I wonder? But she had a nice voice.)
I knew the piece as an Eric Coates piece of light classical music, and was greatly surprised to find I owned sheet music for the pop-music incarnation of it (Coates is credited as the composer; Jack Lawrence wrote the words but I am not familiar with him). The latest copyright date on the sheet music is 1940, and that's probably about when it was published: this is part of the giant pile of sheet music my uncle shipped to me a while back. One of his clients inherited the sheet music from an older sister (I think) and passed it on to my uncle with the thought that his son (one of my cousins), who was a vocal musician, would want it. He didn't, but I tend to feel about sheet music about like I feel about books, and I can't bear to think of it thrown away. There's a lot of "meh" stuff (older pop songs I don't recognize) but there are a few gems or at least things sufficiently odd as to be interesting (a copy of "The Sweetheart of Sigma Chi," for example).
This is the version of Sleepy Lagoon I know much better, as early-mid-century "light" classical music:
I'm also working on a Pleyel minuet. I *like* a lot of Pleyel's compositions even if some of them are kind of simple and he's currently a bit out of favor. I like a lot of those "minor" Classical era composers...he also wrote a hymn tune (probably best known to me, at least, as "Praise to God, Immortal Praise")
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ah well. the parents coming to you was just an idea.
Have a better day today!
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