A goal and A Light in the Attic.

nobody@vox.com(Joie) — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 00:19:35 -0500

This bridge will only take you halfway there
To those mysterious lands you long to see:
Through gypsy camps and swirling Arab fairs
And moonlit woods where unicorns run free.
So come and walk awhile with me and share
The twisting trails and wondrous worlds I've known.
But this bridge will only take you halfway there--
The last few steps you have to take alone.

--Shel Silverstein, "The Bridge"

A PERSONAL CHALLENGE APPEARS!

Okay, silliness complete.

It's appropriate, though. I've decided that I'd like to set some Shel Silverstein poems to music in time for my senior recital. A little comic relief is always a nice thing, and I think I could do some interesting things with them. I've limited myself to poems from A Light in the Attic, and I've narrowed it down to nine so far; I'd like to trim that to anywhere between three and six.

Before I can start working on this I need to finish the clarinet thing I'm currently working on (currently it's at about 1:30; I was kinda hoping for twice that, so we'll see what happens). I also need to go back and nurse the rejected horn/piano piece back to health (and hopefully acceptance). I've also got a tentative goal of writing a five-minute-ish piece for Wind Ensemble; since that gets deducted of my required 30 minutes of senior recital time, that means I'll only need 25 minutes. I've got around 15 now, not counting the clarinet piece.

So I've got plenty of goals; what I lack is motivation. I need to stop taking weekends off of everything and crack down on everything, really: composition, piano, Spanish, and diet (for health purposes, not weight loss).

Time to sleep on some ideas and see if they've turned into anything by morning.

A Light in the Attic

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A goal and A Light in the Attic.