Spitfire Solo Strings

Slight Presence

You know those scenes in the movies where the protagonist is hanging on by their fingertips, slips, falls, and then catches themselves on something else at the very last second? This track is the Song-A-Day equivalent of of that. I didn’t start working particularly early, but it also wasn’t very late either. Mid-afternoon, and certainly enough time to get something reasonable recorded. I was working mostly in Stepic again and interested in seeing if I … Continue reading

Edgar Rescues the Damsel of Garstaang Tower

Many blog posts ago, going back perhaps 15 to 20 years, I wrote about a condition I had both invented and decided I suffer from: Salieri Syndrome. I have alternatively described myself as “praying to St. Salieri.” In days past, most people would have immediately gotten the reference, but as I sat down to write this post, I now realize that it’s a reference to a 41 year old movie.1Or a 46 year old play, … Continue reading