Don't you just pull out the Mozart score and figure that part out? The wife and I do that all the time, sometimes I use a creative passage on her, she likes the crescendo parts. Starting out at pp in a major scale, moving to a pentatonic sequence, and heading to ff in a minor way, and back to the tonic with sffz makes for a great conclusion. It is draining but worth it in the end.

As to the study of movement I far prefer Bach to Mozart, especially the interpretations of Gould in his early recordings. The French Suites are particularly interesting in their fugal best. Partitas aside, the tempos Gould introduced can be effective in emotional stimulation.

As to Band and a Box and algo rhythmic terms, the best thing to happen is the ability to jam with Oliver Gannon on guitar and Terry Clarke on drums, with Neil Swanson on bass, and making your own quartet with those dudes laying down the backing groove.

Now that my groove is back, the wife is happy, and we tour about in our mini in a minor way, pushing the tach and trying to interpret the GPS. More fun than a barrel of simians.

I'd get on the horn or phone if you don't have a French Horn, to Dr. Gannon forth with, yer onto something. Maybe we can use Band in a Box to plug the leak in the Gulf of Florida/Texas, I can't believe the call it the Gulf of Mehiko. Most of the H two Oh comes from yer Miss a Sippy. Therefore it should be the Miss a sippy gulf, n'est ce pas?


John Conley
Musica est vita