1. I made a mistake in yesterday's blog post and now I'd like to correct it. Soon I'll go back to the original post and correct it there.
When I looked at the long vowels in the "Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow" line in Macbeth, I wrote that the line had six long o sounds. It doesn't. It has six sounds of agony, but the "mor" of "tomorrow" is more of an "awh" sound. He alternates between "awhhh" and "ohhh", sounds of pain.
My point about rhetorical punctuation stands, but I didn't describe the music of Macbeth's despair well.
2. Why would I pretty much stay home all day on New Year's Eve?
At 3 a.m. today, SiriusXM's Symphony Hall channel set in motion a symphony marathon to close out 2025. The marathon is hosted by JoAnn Faletta and then sometimes Martin Goldsmith and sometimes Preston Trombly. As I write this post nearly eighteen hours after it started, the marathon continues.
The marathon features symphonies composed by Beethoven, Brahms, Tchaikovsky, and Mahler.
I have listened, sometimes with a partial ear, to as much of this marathon as possible, but I haven't come close to hearing every note, let alone each symphony.
I've heard enough music and listened to enough commentary, especially by JoAnn Faletta, to come to a better understanding of the symphony form, a deeper appreciation of the great variety of each composer's work, and a love for how different each of these composer's work is from the others.
3. Salmon, white onion in rings, and mushrooms on a bed of couscous.
It was a simple and satisfying dinner for New Year's Eve followed by a small dish of French Vanilla ice cream and one half of a chocolate chip cookie from Beach Bum Bakery.
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