Sunday, August 24, 2008
G E N E S I S
Welcome, visitor #to the revamped Nienor.net! This site has
undergone a bit of an overhaul, and has been turned into what I’d like to call a
Journal of Impulse, meaning that regular content has been removed in favour of
a more original journalling system. I will merely be posting for the purpose
of whimsy, adding entries here and there on any little theme, idea, song or
picture that has me captured at that moment. Most recent entries may be found
below.
Thursday, August 28, 2008
I'm planning to attend "TwiCon", a convention for fans of the
Twilight series and movie, at the start of 2010, and while I'm up in Sydney (hopefully
for the better part of a week) there is no way I'm going to miss paying a
visit to this place:
Carey Beebe Harpsichords.
I can only dream at this point of ever owning one, but I'm sure playing one
isn't counted among the impossible for me.
Thursday, August 28, 2008
J.S. BACH - GOLDBERG VARIATIO 4.
At
midnight I wanted to be at the piano playing (or, rather, struggling through)
the fourth of the Goldberg Variations. I've had to content myself by listening
to them instead, and reading along in my new copy of the score (as opposed to
nearly-illegible print-outs).
Tomorrow I'm going to go through and mark the variations I'd like
to work on to begin with, and take one to my teacher.
Oh, and Glenn Gould's performances remain my favourite. Something
about his mind (I guess I have a respect for those [allegedly] affected by
Asperger's syndrome) brings across something so delightful that most other
performers don't seem to be tapping into fully.
Links:
Essay
on the "Goldberg" Variations
View score for Variation 4 (pdf format)
Buy/Listen to Gould's second recording
