Day 243: Fragments, not sentences
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Vienna 1971—A Student Journal
A year of music, study, travel, sightseeing &
friends.
Day
243 — Fragments, not sentences
01-April-1972
(Samstag–Sat.)
TRANSCRIPT
Played a very little. Mostly stayed home. Did a
little work on the patiture
[score], and
read. Just finished eating a European style
meal—cheese. It was my supper.
I’ll go and take in the opera Daphne
by Richard
Strauss. A premiere. Excellent. I especially like the
music. The singing was, of course, for a premiere,
excellent. Very enjoyable. Met two Americans. Had a
nice talk. He was studying composition in Julliard
extension division.
REFLECTIONS
Grammar
on a normal day. Today
was a normal day with a lot of activity. In my
journal, I have been noticing that my writing is
taking the form of short fragments. The idea is
there. It makes the reading a bit choppy. Just like
these reflections. While I am keeping true to the
journal, I sometimes change or omit a word if my
meaning gets clouded. Cloud thinking, cloud
computing—see, I was ahead of my time. In the
journal, I’ll often paste together my fragments with
a lot of dashes or sometimes commas. Sort of like,
stream of consciousness words and fragments. As
always, I wish Grammar Girl could be my editor. Is it
ok to write like you think?
Music.
Some work
on my electronic score and a Richard Strauss
opera, Daphne,
at night. Interestingly, according to Wikipedia, this
was not the Vienna premiere of Daphne.
Met an American composition student from Julliard.
You normally don’t meet many people in composition.
Always interesting.
Links:
Richard Strauss
in
Wikipedia
Ricarda Merbeth in
Daphne –
YouTube. Comments are raving about Ricarda’s
performance here. Here is a good example of the
chromatic and textural complexity of Strauss’
writing.
John
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