November 19, 2020--Practice Blog in the time of the virus

Day 2. I would like to get this going again, just to chronicle a day in the life of myself.

The day started off after breakfast. I have a forty minute "office hour" for my students via Zoom Monday through Thursday starting at 9 am. No one has come, but I'm there just in case. Afterwards, I continued working on emails and other sundry things. Drove to Boy's Town (about 1 hour and 40 minutes). Recorded some hymns for the online Masses for Advent as the church has decided to forego in person Mass until after the New Years. Will return to record some Christmas tunes in the coming weeks. Then, I practiced. A good, solid 2 1/2 hours. Felt good to work on new stuff, revive old stuff, and just get some time at an instrument. Afterwards, drove home. And that was the day.

On the organ, I worked on a couple of hymn voluntaries by Michael McCabe, my predecessor at the Dowd Chapel. Recorded an advent voluntary, see above. Then, I brought back three movements from Jean Langlais' Suite Medievale, Dupre's Offertoire on "Il est Ne", and a Romantic Parisian Noel (I don't have the composer's name here.) Finally, worked on speeding up BWV 606 and Vierne's Finale from the First Symphony.