March 21, 2020--Daily/Practice Blog in the time of the virus

Greetings on the other side of the Hive migration. I hope this finds everyone well. It was a full day, and one that I thoroughly enjoyed.

My wife and I got out of the house after a donut breakfast to get some practicing in for tomorrow's church service. It will be to an empty house, but hopefully people will be turning up online and the radio to listen. Afterwards we came home and had some leftovers for lunch. I practiced piano for a couple hours and then sat down to work on online class stuff. First week is ready to go! It is time intensive, but making think about what I want to include and what I want my class to really know. We ate dinner, pork chop and apple leftovers, and now going to watch some tv before going to bed.

A friend of ours sent in a neat idea for this time of "self-quarantine": to make a Rule of Yourself. The idea was given to us from a seminary student and I would like to get the assignment his instructor gave him. I have a feeling that is based on Benedict's Rule and is a way to govern your hours so you find time to do everything that needs to get done. I am going to ask for a copy of the assignment to see how it is laid out, and may try to put one together for myself for the upcoming period of time. With classes, at least I can govern my time by having to be specific places at specific times. Without it, I have a tendency to spend too much time on one activity and everything else suffers. I will keep you informed.

ON the organ, I practiced BWV 623 and 624 of Bach. I wrote out most of the fingering for 624 today, and I think it works. It is well under speed, but I would like to get it up and running for the Secrets of Organ Playing Contest next week. I also recorded BWV 622 for our church's Facebook page. I finished my practice with the coda from Vierne's Finale.

ON the piano, I worked on an accompaniment for a soloist tomorrow morning. It is pretty bare boned, and I may fill it out some more during the service. I also got back to working on Chopin's Op. 10 No. 4 and started Liszt's first Transcendental Etude.



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