A Damp Dirge
Normally I don’t revisit a topic this quickly but I find it particularly disturbing that rather than admitting mistakes were made by the company that was hired to fix the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool it’s been decided a better solution is to literally arrest people for dipping their hands in the water and charge them with felony vandalism, with sentences of up to 10 years being mentioned, all to sell the fabrication that the real culprits here are vandals and not grotesque incompetence originating, again, with the aged demented Oval Office squatter.
I’m not particularly worried any of these charges will stick, I mean, hoards of maddened rioters descended upon congress just a few years ago and did REAL damage, it was even broadcast live across the world, and they’re all fine now.
It’s just, I don’t know, pathetic?
I don’t know what caused it, but yesterday’s post about penmanship had the most single day views in the history of this blog. Not sure why but it was nice.
UPDATE: Seems we now know who the vandal was that caused the damage. Nobody told him not to drive a motorcade over fresh paint before it’s had an opportunity to cure.
The algorithms for distribution of online media are inscrutable. (is that the right word?) I write whatever pleases me a few times a week, mostly to let friends and family know I'm still alive. But occasionally total strangers click Like. How did they even get my message? Amateur radio people used to prize a certain band of frequencies because they had worldwide propagation. Alas, these were given to Citizens Band, for nearly unlicensed use, and the Hams lost their precious skip frequencies. I cannot remember exactly how your first messages reached me. I recall a rant about some professor telling you to stop using DoubleSharp X because nobody understood, and you explaining that was the right way, and he should know better than to dumb down the music. Oh, too bad about the reflecting pool. Imagine a child wading in it, his family arrested and charged with felony treason. Thank you for the more complicated melodies and harmonies you are sharing. They take time to write and debug.
Thanks for making both the score and the audio available. I haven't had the pleasure of following a score for a long time, and didn't realize how much I missed it.
Great dirge, too. My mind was conjuring all kinds of choreographic accompaniment. ☺️