From the monthly archives:
I’ve had the flu for four days now. I probably got it in the airport, or airplane coupled with not enough sleep. This time I was a good boy and stayed still at home, with only quick drives to get food. Otherwise my reality has been the achy all over no energy flu. I [...]
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I spent the weekend travelling to Andover, Massachusetts and visiting with my brother Andy (Andrew Rhodes Bourland), his wife Jeanne and her three daughters, and his three children of two marriages, two of the three wives, three dogs, and my husband. They have a fabulous home.
As we flew into Manchester, New Hampshire, out the [...]
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Moorea at sunset
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The trickiest part of setting these lyrics for me was setting the name “Penelope” and saying “I love you.”
No One to Wait For
Music: Roger Bourland
Lyrics: Mel Shapiro
The Captain: Patrick Logotheti
No one to wait for
No endless longing
No one to worry for
Just someone belonging
To you
Someone who’s really here
Here at [...]
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A fun and funny commercial about the Second Viennese School.
Die Zwölftonmethode – totgeschwiegen und totgeredet, geliebt und verehrt, verhasst und verdammt – ist eine jener Mysterien der Musikgeschichte, die unser Leben wie kein anderes in den Bann ungeahnter tönender Dimensionen zu ziehen vermag. Lassen wir uns erklären, wie unser Alltag durch Anhörung der herausragenden atonalen [...]
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I was very happy with my lecture yesterday. Rather than just teaching counterpoint — here are the rules –do this, don’t do that, avoid this, and don’t do this because it’s not in the style — I presented a variety of kinds of chants and analyzed how we would imitate it if we wanted to. [...]
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My parents have both had various facial skin cancers. It was only a matter of time before it was my turn. The phone rang and the caller ID said: SM UCLA Dermato. I knew it was Dr. Kim.
It is cancer. It’s the kind that is not life threatening and very slow growing basal cell carcinoma [...]
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I’m teaching species counterpoint again, but this time, in addition to teaching chant, that is Gregorian (Christian) Chant, I’m exploring all the different kinds of chanting that exists in other sacred traditions. For that matter, I’m playing whale songs and wolf howls as examples of animals’ uncontrollable urge to sing. Here is a baby wolf: [...]
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