winter break

the semester is over, but i still have final papers to grade and a lot lesson planning to do before over the break. i'm teaching an advanced fundamentals class and its been pretty long since i thought about what "advanced fundamentals" is. the department has some general guidelines of where they should be able to sightsing, but i really need to sit down and figure out what i want them to do. the music ed class will get to move from educational theory to practice teaching this semester.

if all goes well during the next 2 weeks i'm going to finally finish recording and editing retrace our steps. the timing is pretty good because we just committed to play at the synchromy concert at beyond baroque on feb 19th. this spring i'm also going to try and play monthly on sunday nights at mr. t's . i also expect the instrumentation to be more organic in the club also.

i recently decided that i'm not going to worry about having the exact instrumentation in the club anymore. trying to play 2-3 times a month with the same members isn't always possible, so i am going to treat each performance like a project. each show will be created around who can be there with a one or two invited guests to mix things up. this will be an interesting strategy to that will allow us play more consistently and explore a wide variety of music until the next batch of music is finished.