I took the last sleeping pill last night, slept very well, got up fairly early, and walked over to the big kikar and back -- another lovely morning!
I did quite a bit of work on my music today. I filled in the orchestration and made several improvements on Avinu Malkenu. I also did a quick orchestration of a piece, based on Mode Ani, from my latest organ album. This is a somewhat experimental composition, a little in the style of Philip Glass, that includes a sustained bass note running through the whole piece (played by the basses, of course), imitations of birds singing (the first flutes, naturally), an Alberti bass figure in the cellos, and the tune of Mode Ani running very slowly in the violins, overlapping with a faster version of itself played by the second flutes. As I mentioned, I originally wrote it for organ. I found the tempo too slow, so I've already speeded it up 50% for the orchestral version. I'll probably made some additional changes, as well, but it already sounds quite interesting.
We ate lunch at Greg café today. I ordered their breakfast, and David had a fruit salad. He ate a very small amount of the bread that comes with the meal, and he only ate about a third to a half of the fruit salad. I ate everything else except for the chopped Israeli salad that came with the breakfast. Somehow, I just feel like eating that today, although I usually like it quite a bit.
Other than these things, we just spent a quiet Shabbat here at home. Just as the sun was setting, we got a few stray drops of rain, not enough to even get the ground wet. But the cool breeze that preceded and accompanied them was most welcome!
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