In retrospect.

There are many things I wish I'd done when I was younger.
Listening to my parents when it came to practicing is one. Another is that I wish I'd played more rugby.
On the other hand, there are many things I wish I HADN'T done.
One of these is give up trumpet. Another is let myself be an emotional dartboard.

Things I've done and experienced recently will also probably fall under one or t'other of these catagories.
I'm going to give classifying them a go.
I suppose this is suspicion, but meh.

i. Meet Sophie - This is definitely one for the positives. She's a charming, hilariously twisted and confident young woman whom I very much like.

ii. Flunk my Xmas mocks - A bit of an ambiguous one, this. On the one hand, if I'd learned my work, I'd be able to focus solely on the new stuff for a while.
On the other, at least I now know where my knowledge is patchy (and let me tell you, it's patchier than a knitted quilt...).

iii. Discover Divna - One of the better ones. This woman is in possession of an haunting voice, which is (obviously, otherwise she wouldn't be doing it...) ideally suited to the material she sings, which is largely Byzantine chant, and Orthodox church-music.
Of course, it helps that I am a huge fan of Orthodox music.
And that she's quite attractive...

iv. Discover Basso Profundo music - AMAZING. NO MORE NEEDS TO BE SAID, APART FROM "LOOK IT UP, NOW".

v. Realise that my eyesight has further deteriorated - Not much to say really, other than that there isn't much to deteriorate on...
This is one of the less good things of late.

vi. Finish (apart from a few textural and performance changes) my first AS Music composition - I (possibly rather foolishly) decided that I was going to special. Instead of composing in the style of a more studied period (Baroque, Classical or Romantic), I elected to do my first composition in the style of the Renaissance period.
WHICH HAS VERY LITTLE CONNECTION WITH LATER PERIODS, OTHER THAN THAT IT'S A COLLECTION OF NOTES.
As time wore on, and September slowly ground into October, which suddenly became January, I started to panic. I had a piece, but I personally didn't think it was very good. So I started a new one.
Which I have just finished.
Which I DO like.
Rather a lot.
I feel quite paternal about it, if I'm honest. It's developed from a flash of what might pass as inspiration, during a Chemistry lecture, into 85 bars of what I consider to be possibly the best music I have composed, and I've done a fair bit.

vii. Realise that, if I DO try for an organ scholarship, I have less than eight months to prepare.
I am currently attempting to find a church, with a decent organ, that will let me practice.
Currently, I'm failing dismally, as everywhere seems to have either NO organ, an ELECTRIC organ (*vomits*), or won't let a mere secularist, such as myself, play.

Ah well.
Apologies yet AGAIN for the boredom-factor present in my blogs.

Anyway, thank you for reading, and I hope you're having a pleasant week.

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