This week I finally decided to listen to the warning bleep at my gym when lifting weights, the one that tells me “Try to Slow Down” (my posting on 8/29/09).

I decreased each weight by a full bar and focused on going slower and more intently.  It turns out all the machine wanted from me in [...]

This week I’ve been thinking a bit about the complication of ornamentation in classical music — all those trills, turns, mordents, appoggiatura, acciaccatura and grace notes – most of which can be inverted or doubled or have an accent beat – and on and on.  There are seemingly infinite varieties for ornamentation.
For fun, here’s a [...]