You scarcely realise how poetic my intuition is.

Happened today! Sadly my parents had to cancel at the last minute coming up (up? down? across..) from Oxford so I was Alone in the audience (...in the nicely large audience I mean, and no I wasn't, I sat with some of the staff). But the uni orchestra sounded very good!!

To check out further:
♫ Sibelius 7! Just full of lots of lovely Sibelius bits ahh. I kind of forget now because it was the first thing that they played. It was a piece the conductor/my supervisor actually said he's always wanted to do and could conduct every day for the rest of his life happily ;;; Aaaa. They played it really well.
♫ Wagner: Parsifal, an Orchestral Quest (arr. Henk de Vlieger)  To check out especially for the pretty specific LotR moments I heard there!
♫ And finally my piece :)  Actually played in between the other two.  It went really well I think, and they also recorded the rehearsal so I should be able to splice together a good recording over the like one two notes that weren't quite perf!  People said nice things!  Ooof, it's just really hard to have any... idea of how it went I guess because I'm too close to it!  I definitely don't mean to sound lukewarm about this, it was an amazing experience (and.. yeah so much more positive than anything like this before, not that I've done anything on this scale) -- I think it'll settle in a bit maybe!

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As a sort of sidenote to my amazing html 5 audio discovery.......  THAT ATE A LOT OF BANDWIDTH!  Dreamwidth specifically, and most specifically of all the photos tag, so I have taken that tag away for now.  What I'm not quite sure about is does it automatically load the entire track on pageload, because it sort of looks like it does.  And that would definitely be conducive to Issues!  Next, is there a way for it not to do this (probably, actually.) [ETA: yep, I think this is it.  Oops, that's an embarrassing mistake!]

Meanwhile, the music host I've been complaining about because it just upped and died (the site was still there but no media played or could be uploaded) for upwards of three weeks without explanation... seems to be back!  Again, without any explanation, so free or not I will probably be looking to continue to move, but in less of a hurry now.

Actually got up early (for me!) and went for a run!  Winner!

Alas there are a lot of issues on the concert-organising front (like our second pianist dropping out...) so I'll need to spend some time emailing round and I don't know what.

But I also want to make sure to really get a lot of music done today, so:

• finish sketching out Brooding oboe movement?
• actually reopen the strings thing and take a look...
• should actually practise at least on instrument as I Planned to every day and haven't properly in weeks.

Also, this is rather a long shot, but does anything poetical, or historical with a good (and out-of-copyright) written record that could be, um, sung, spring to mind when you think of Dorset, England??  Haha.  There's a choir competition ('inspired by the people, heritage or landscape of Dorset') and I do want to write something bigger for choir anyway.  I was thinking of Mary Anning the fossil collector, but I can't find much in the way of actual texts.  I mean I'd like the idea of doing something kind of... collage-y, with letters/accounts but still, I need something for a start.  And I think Thomas Hardy and William Barnes may have been done quite a lot...  HMM.

I now have a google doc from the Meeting Notes template that is outlining the chronology of the war which is the background and increasingly the foreground to the fic of how-on-earth-do-I-write-this.  And getting on towards 10 000 words of scribbly notes!?  I need to go back and focus on the start of it, see if it even is remotely the same fic.  And figure what on earth style it should be.  I think I have a sort of ending now, though!