Good PowerPoint. I didn’t watch the video but am sure it’s good. Whenever I have used videos from within PowerPoint presentations that has been where the technology seemed most likely to fail. Just a heads up…
From jupiterj
on
daunting day ahead
Mark,
Thank you for looking at my silly presentation! The video is only a minute long (or did you check it out as well?) and I don’t think anything would be lost if it failed. But thank you for the heads up as well.
From David
on
daunting day ahead
Viewed your presentation. Looks informative. I like the video and the way you personalized it to your church and local community. Good luck with it. Stay warm.
David
From jupiterj
on
daunting day ahead
David,
Thanks for looking at the presentation. I really appreciate it when people check this stuff out. It helps me make lists blunders. Thank you for your comments. Hope things are going well out in Calif. Love to you and to fam.
From Sarah
on
retirement
So glad you and mom are doing well. Hope she gets over her cold soon. And please don’t die of a heart attack while shovelling or blowing snow. 😛 x would like to skype with you guys this weekend. X x x love you
From jupiterj
on
retirement
Nice to hear from you on your birthday! Hope the new house is working out well. love from Dad
From Cindy Cosway
on
retirement
If it were up to me, I would keep driving over the snow until it melts in the spring. Of course, we don’t get as much here in Cincy – and I have my 4X4.. Safety first!
From jupiterj
on
retirement
Cindy, That’s pretty much my default mode (to drive through it if I can with my little Subaru or Mom’s Olds), but Eileen bought this dang snow blower that she likes so much and it tempted me to try using it. love from Uncle Steve and thanks for reading
From Rhonda
on
the ghost of ray ferguson and a smidgen of online research
By the way, I’m staying at General Seminary in NYC this week, with a friend, and I just met that guy you refer to this evening, and he’s actually very nice, and my friend, who studies here and knows him pretty well, says so too. So, maybe it was an off day for him when you emailed! Don’t write all his music off because of that one encounter.
From jupiterj
on
the ghost of ray ferguson and a smidgen of online research
Believe me I didn’t. I just had played all of the organ stuff of his that I like and felt that he would prefer that I not do the one last piece of his that I own on my stupid little pipe organ. I complied by the way and did not play it. Not the same as writing it off. I bought some more of his instrumental music with high hopes but didn’t think it was that good. I continue to admire his choral music and hymnody. I understand that he is charming in the flesh (as so many of us snobby Episcopalians are).
From Michelle Smith Kingsley
on
jupe's hump day
Hi Steve, I’ve been away from the blog reading for quite a while (I *really* miss Google Reader) But your insights continue to encourage & support your readers. Thank you. Best wishes, Michelle
From jupiterj
on
jupe's hump day
Michelle, thanks for you kind words and thanks for reading!
From Rhonda
on
pacing myself and zero sum notions of books
Well, here comes the Luddite amongst us to counter your take on Farenheit 451…
I was actually really taken last night by how much more applicable it struck me today than it had when I last read it, a decade or two ago. Of course, the physicality of books is a big issue in the play/book, but that’s because that’s what books were when Bradbury wrote the piece. I think the real issues he’s getting at is not books, but ideas. The ideas in books is what the authorities wanted to stamp out. If he wrote this today, you would not be able to retreat to your Kindle and Internet while the pages burns, because “they” would be closing in on those as well.
Bradbury’s idea of a society choosing to be entertained – to tune out their own feelings, thoughts, original ideas, experiences of the world – in exchange for facts, sports scores, faster everything, various means of escape – all to cover up the fact that hardly anyone even wants to interact authenticly with other real people, or see the physical world as it is, but would rather be surrounded by screens, that reflect back the safe, fantasy world they’d rather believe in … Well, that sounds pretty familiar to me.
I’m not saying there aren’t all kinds of advantages inherrent in the internet, or other technology. I’m just saying the way many people choose to use them leaves me confused and feeling like a fish out of water, with much differnet priorities than most of those I see around me. And I really resonated with that message in the play.
End of lecture…
From jupiterj
on
pacing myself and zero sum notions of books
Your comments so intrigued me (got me wondering about the play) that I dug up my copy of the book and read it. Now it will take me a while to process that. I also ordered a copy of the play so I can compare and think a bit more. Thanks for reading and commenting! If I come up with some ideas I think might interest you I’ll let you know.
From Elizabeth J.
on
2 books
When I used to own CD’s, I had Keith Jarrett’s Koln Concert. I listened to it all the time. Thanks for reminding me of this awesomeness. I’ll find some KJ to listen to today! Love you, Dad!
From jupiterj
on
2 books
I swear I used to own a vinyl copy of the Koln concert. I know I had one of Arbour Zena. I’m glad you like this music since i do too. love from Dad
From the daughter in england
on
friday report
Mom’s right – you never take a day off… Mr. I-quit-my-job
Oh, and I know you like to fit your artistic views into other peoples’ contexts… but really it doesn’t matter what other people think. I always remind myself that the people we hear are often just the ones who shout the loudest, not necessarily the most clever or more agreed-with. I don’t see what difference it should make whether your ideas on music are conventional or not… surely?
I love you! have you had any trouble with the website since the other day?
x
From jupiterj
on
friday report
The context I seek is not so much what other people think, as I wonder how music works and why. Just trying to stretch my brain a little bit. No problems with the web site on my end. Love from Dad
From The brother in New England
on
friday report
I agree with the growing consensus that you don’t take days off. Leigh and I commented recently after reading your blog that you talked about having a day off and then described going to work and meeting with Jen. I understand how you might say that practicing is something you do even on a day off, but meeting with your boss doesn’t seem to fit in with leisure. But what do I know?
From jupiterj
on
friday report
I would like to defend myself from these scurrilous charges, but I don’t have time today even though it’s supposedly my day off.
From Rhonda
on
angels in the architecture
You’re welcome! I’m glad you like the piece too. Something about the title sounded (to my ears) like it could be interesting.
Sometime, when I get a minute, I’d like to hear your take on my newsletter article too. So make sure to read it before Sunday, when I will corner you, and demand to know what you thought of it!!
From Sarah
on
angels in the architecture
am I the only one who just hears Paul simon singing when I hear ‘angels in the architecture’? (He looks around and around, he sees angels in the architecture, spinning in infinity…)
From jupiterj
on
angels in the architecture
Sarah…. very cool, I didn’t make the association but thought the phrase sounded familiar. Surely the composer of this piece was aware of Paul Simon’s song.
From Mark
on
whew
If you subscribe to the online version of Ritesong (riteseries.org), anything the have for download comes with copyright permission granted. We subscribe to that and also to onelicense.net. Between the two of them, we have permission on most things we want to reproduce in our Sunday booklet.
Have you looked at the new version of the RiteStuff (2.0)? It claims it will split music graphics from page to page. Sounds interesting but I’m not sure it’s worth the upgrade price…
From jupiterj
on
whew
I will pass along this info to Jen. I’m not sure we have upgraded to RiteStuff 2.0.
From Rhonda
on
burnout: the saga continues
Not to be corny but… You’re not invisible to me!
🙂
From jupiterj
on
burnout: the saga continues
Rhonda, I appreciate the fact that you and I have both a friendship and a collegiate relationship. I value both highly. And in fact I don’t think I’m invisible. I just feel that way sometimes, but this doesn’t apply to you and many other people locally.
From Rhonda
on
my last spring break day off
I’m betting Gabe isn’t the one who’s supposed to pay you. Email the music secretary, or call her – I think they just expect you to turn in your hours to her – she does time cards for the music dept. At least that’s how I get paid…
From Elizabeth
on
cruel, but well, fun too
RE: David Byrne dance audition. How strange and beautiful to get auditioners to both compete and work together. In a setting of competition, it’s remarkable they were able to insist on this kind of open innovation. Cool.
And I also love the description of the dancers catching their breath.
From Elizabeth
on
cruel, but well, fun too
And your website is loading much faster for me today.
From Rhonda
on
cruel, but well, fun too
ooh, I second that! Usually, it takes f o r e v e r …… to load, but today it was lickety split!
From jupiterj
on
cruel, but well, fun too
The quicker loading is probably due to Sarah the daughter updating. I still haven’t heard from her, but she did mention via text and online chat that she was looking for a chunk of time to do it.
I showed that passage in Byrne to Julie Powell one of the dance instructors I work with yesterday. She seemed interested AND she knew who David Byrne was.
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