reporting from life

disclaimer: the sound clip below may contain trombone and trombone related music. those that are allergic to loud tromboney music are advised not to click the play button.



so that was a recording i played on last monday for a fellow trombone grad student here at IU. it's a piece called "what color is the wind" written by the famous (he is within the trombone world at least...) tommy pederson. it's written for two tenor soloists backed by a trombone choir of 7 (or 8 maybe?). the two soloists are 2nd year masters students. the choir consisted of one doctoral student, one performance diploma student, two under grads, and 3 year 2nd year masters. we played without a conductor - as you may hear in a couple spots ;-) i had a lot of fun performing this piece and thought the recording turned out pretty well, especially considering we used a small digital recorder up in one of the classrooms and only did like 4 takes.

so it's been snowing down here a decent amount this last week and i must say, i'm enjoying it very much. it's a nice change from the brown winter i'm used to down here. i also get a kick out of watching all the little soristitutes bundled up in they're matching north face fleeces and ugg boots braving the elements to get to class. they're so adorable.

i managed to avoid all the sickness that was going around the last two weeks thanks to the makers of airborne and coldeeze cough drops. pretty much the entire school had something and i was lucky to stay healthy. i'm also back into the swing with going to the gym. i'm getting really sick of the normal diet of protein shakes, chicken breasts, eggs, etc so i think i'm gonna try to find some new recipes. if anyone knows of a good high protein meal, please share :-) my tastebuds will thank you. well, not literally...awkward...

this saturday i'll be watching the entire ring cycle from start to finish at pete ellefson's house. he's hitting the play button at 9am and expects it to finish sometime around midnight. there's going to be lots of german food and drink (fancy word for beer) so it should be a good time. i watched a dvd a couple days ago that was a documentary on the solti/vienna recording (i think it was done between 1955-65). it's incredible how huge this work is and what it takes to perform it.

i guess that's about it for this post. colin just farted.

cheese and crackers,
james