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For our pre-Christmas and Hannukah miscellanea let's have an all-envoi extravaganza.
Let's start with a clip from a composer I had not previously encountered. Saad Haddad gives us some excellent advice for young composers. The sixth section, about not using music software until well into the process is one I strongly agree with.
allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/cfusVQrCOgI" width="32...The first time I encountered Netflix I was visiting my sister in Virginia Beach and she said, let's watch a movie--Netflix has everything. So I searched for a few movies I would like to see and, of course, none of them were available. I did finally sign up for both Netflix and Amazon Prime, but usually I can find nothing to watch--there were a few good shows, like Downton Abbey,...
Here is what I am reading at the moment.
href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOpk_79GLHeCEesf3uiZ0wIaqCN4EXI1U82n0SPgCLtyg_w9Dc8UTO2JuZl_GUQfTzRTu3wlru8pwoi5bvbxbOkKJYGGMjO8OJmtRR9PGisg_1fgDQVGb6N_QywnkcZohw5C44NuWPD651yGG57om2aZxfNw2gODJE8jNF4vd_MBXwN2mq5QGu0bZDkQc/s1612/Screenshot%202025-12-10%20at%209.25.14%E2%80%AFa.m..png" imagea...Just tiny things today. This is a new thing on Spotify, apparently. My "listening age" is 305. Yes, a lot of my favorite music comes from 1720.
A tiny bit of virtuoso violin music:
