Negative two points if you know where the title for this entry comes from.
Anyway, multiple music things:
a) I have my list of contests up on this temp blog, only because I find it very useful to have it in front of me on a regular basis.
b) I mentioned a few weeks ago that the men's choral contest I was working on an entry for might not actually be giving a prize this year, which ticked me off because I was virtually done with my composition before learning of this news. Anyway, this has just been posted on the contest's website: "I received a message from [the contest chair] implying that he is still planning to issues some awards this season for the AMCA Choral Composition Contest....[The contest chair] indicated, for various reason[s], that he would be extending the deadline to May 15, 2005 (instead of March 15)" That is good, because it means it looks like there will be a contest. But that is bad, because it looks like they are extending the deadline another two months, which means they will probably get more entries, which means my chance of winning is lessened. So.
c) As I said in my last entry, I am more-or-less done with my Meistersingers contest entry, titled "Psalm 88." Here is a MIDI file of it, which does not have rit.s and a tempos and cutoffs and, you know, singing, but does at least let you hear my wacky chord progressions.
d) The plan for the rest of this month, musicwise, is to do the Turner Classic Movies contest (high reward, only need to compose one minute) and probably nothing else (Kim's parents are coming into town for Easter, the house needs to be cleaned this weekend, etc.). I’m hoping to find a second contest to work on for next month, but I haven’t yet been successful, other than a couple with both low prizes and high registration fees.
i sincerely do not know what you are doing here. are you lost? were you
looking for your delicate calico cat, and did you follow her up two flights of stairs
to this room? she is not here. she was here, yes. we gave her a warm bowl of milk, we talked with her about campaign finance reform for a time, and then she bid us good day. i believe she was
going to the post office two blocks down, but i don't quite recall.
for surely you did
not find your way from prinsiana, the least traveled site on
the internet. if you did, though, perhaps you are looking for humor. perhaps you are looking for profundity. perhaps you are looking for answers.
i'm sorry, but you shall go naught-for-three.
