Scott T. Miller

Holy cow I just went to see SFSO do Mahler 2. Amazing! The best concert I have ever been to. MTT does takes some liberties with tempo and dramatic pauses, but in a very tasteful way that outlines or further emphasizes the musical moment. The First movement tempo seemed to begin very slow, but then you could quickly see where MTT was taking the movement and the overall pace of the piece.

Each phrase, each lick was important. It almost seemed that attention was given to each person’s part with a fine comb to make it just so. This worked extremely well with such a detail oriented piece.

And thank you for programming it as so:

Concert Program

Mahler Symphony No ___
(No intermission)

End.

No light fluff Mozart opener, don’t try to do some kind of piano concerto from Haydn to mix with your Mahler 5. Don’t try to make it a 5 hour marathon. And no intermission – w00t!
Thank you SF Symphony.

Brass were incredible. The strings played true ppp. Woodwinds had an incredibly uniform woodwind ‘wall’ of sound. The symphony chorus + organ at Davies Hall was a monumental experience. Great concert, musicians.

In case you are curious, the 40GB VSL Opus 1+2 samples come out as 109GB in soundfont format. Good gravy! Well time for a new hard drive anyway.

Got an iPod touch, and testing out the wordpress app. Here is a picture of Emmett:

It’s too hot for April. Noooo…

Ok I sent a Prokeys88 to M-Audio which had a bad key, and they sent me a brand new replacement Prokeys88!

Thank you!

Now back to some music…

I recently got a new keyboard which had ONE bad key, out of the box. It seemed to have come un-seated, and any attempt to re-seat the key helped only for a few minutes as it just keeps coming off.

I contacted m-audio who is going to repair the keyboard under warranty ASAP. They are paying for shipping both ways- to and from!

Thank you, m-audio. Here is a plug.

Ok Katie and I went out and climbed a mountain. It was a five-mile quick hike, but steep! Here are a few pics:

Gas is under $2/gal in California.  w00t!

Well it has started raining again in California.

And with the first rain, my ceiling is now leaking.

Here is Nathaniel, doing his thing. He will sit in this pose for probably half an hour, wagging his tail.