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Saturday, September 24, 2016

Opus #2 . . .

(http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/22/books/harper-lee-and-berkeley-breathed.html?_r=0)
". . . Generations of admiring readers knew Harper Lee as the reclusive author of the classic novel “To Kill a Mockingbird.” But a relative few were given a glimpse of another side of Ms. Lee: that of a witty, impish and loyal pen pal.

The cartoonist Berkeley Breathed was one person who shared a correspondence with Ms. Lee. After her death . . . Mr. Breathed wrote on Facebook of the letters they had exchanged through the years. Later, he shared with The New York Times four letters he had received from Ms. Lee over 14 years, with the first coming in 1994 and the last arriving in 2008.

The letters detail the author’s quest for privacy, and show how Ms. Lee, who wrote some of the most beloved characters in fiction, became attached to another endearing figure as she aged: Opus, a penguin in Mr. Breathed’s comic strips. . . "

Opus #2(Step Lively Or Get Off the Treadmill)
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Sunday, June 26, 2016

Letters . . .

. . . chords or notes ?. . .

NOTES! . . . actually. They are the notes forming intro and the turnaround, which fuels this medium-slow tempo tune, devised to promote improvisation on the descending chord pattern of D minor, C major and B flat major. The pattern allows a formidable amount of freedom yet restricts just enough to encourage melody within the structure.

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Sunday, February 10, 2013

Slough. . .

Ough is a letter sequence often seen in words in the English language. In Middle English, where the spelling arose, it was probably pronounced with a back rounded vowel and a velar fricative, e.g., [oːx] or [uːx]. It is by far the sequence of letters with the most unpredictable pronunciation, having at least six pronunciations in North American English and over ten in British English. A few of the more common are these:

    /oʊ/ as in "though" (cf. toe).
    /uː/ as in "through" (cf. true).
    /ʌf/ as in "rough" (cf. ruffian).
    /ɒf/ as in "cough" (cf. coffin).
    /ɔː/ as in "thought" (cf. taut).
    /aʊ/ as in "bough" (cf. to cow).

Slough of Despond by John P. Graboski
Performed by Oho (rehearsal recording)

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