Rick Davis

I wish I could be there, but we are tied up with seasonal funk!! Hope you have a grand tyme and get a bunch of pics.

We'll definitely miss y'all, Cuz.

I have a note written "on my hand" to remind me of your radio show ... can't wash my hand today!

My radio show?

Hey cuz, my daughter stole my copy and won't give it back!! She calls it her "Thinking" and "Going to Sleep" music.

Hi, Cuz. Hmmm. That's a problem. Wait! I know! You could get another one Saturday night and hide it from her! ;-) Glad she likes it.

Today, I performed at Battle Academy, our neighborhood Elementary School for their Medieval / Renaissance Festival. That tall structure in front of which I am playing is a water tower.

Cool looking water tower. Hope the playing went well.

Yep, it did. Thanks for asking.

OK, that really was a Medieval/Renaissance Festival, *not* a Nedieval/Renaissance Festival. ;-)

Dick, ewe still funny! I was too cheap to get the shirt. As for death (what a polarity that exists in this conversation), I just figure it's like birth in reverse and I won't remember any of it.

Yes, interesting turn of conversation - and all from a simple word - plainsong!

Thank you for humoring me! I should have at least Googled it before I dared to comment so I could have sounded smarter. ;-) While I certainly would LIKE to remember every thing I ever learned about music history, thanks to Google and Wikipedia, nowadays I don't have to! Just in time for old age! Hah! So now I read where the polyphony didn't... See More come along until later, after plainsong. So today, I am a little more knowledgeable than I was yesterday; maybe I will remember it this time! In any case, it sounds like you do fun and interesting things.

Yesterday I was called upon to fill in on a ten-piano concert next Saturday night that the Springdale music teachers' club is presenting. I said "yes" before I got the music. What was I thinking? It's full of double-octave scales, 32nd-note arpeggios, and chromatic scales in thirds. Five piano teachers on primo, five on secondo. "The Stars and Stripes" and "Joy to the World." It will be challenging, for sure--and fun, I think!

Hmmm. That's a LOT of notes! Unless the piece is taken like a lot of Bach's pieces with 32nd notes in them - very slow. At least you have 10 fingers with which to do all that. ;-)

Yeah, I always want to see the music before I say yes. Once I accepted a gig playing some Malcolm Dalglish pieces with choir. I died out there. The good news, is ... See Morethat once you've died, you can't die again. ;-)

Well, all that on Plainsong wasn't from memory from long ago. Not so many years ago, I did some reading on chant, and thought I remembered it progressed from melody only to open parallel fifths to open parallel fifths and fourths to closer harmonies. So,l I looked it up, and was pleasantly surprised to find that the tune I'm doing was melody only "in the day". So, don't feel too badly, Cuz. ;-)