Rain

[jhetley]

Temperatures above freezing, so that's okay. But we are heading back to bare ground, which is bad for critters that count on snow-cover for winter safety. How'd you like to be a snowshoe hare in your bright new winter coat, white standing out like a sore thumb to any passing hawk?

We'll do our traditional New Year at 0000 GMT tonight, tuning my 1941 shortwave radio to the BBC for the chimes of Big Ben. Whee! Haven't stayed up to midnight local to celebrate in maybe thirty years. Old fogeys.

Did two more chapters of the revisions this morning, up to page 104 in the manuscript. Alice is feeling gloomy, with music to match. Sibelius in this case, to be followed by the Brahms Requiem.

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[lynx-rufus.livejournal.com]

Alice is feeling gloomy, with music to match. Sibelius in this case...

I have been looking for some dark music to write by -- any particular works of Sibelius that you would recommend/not recommend, or is it all good? :) Though it is quite different, I love the feel of Enya's "Cursum Perficio," but have yet to find its like (so I can have hours of dark inspirational music to accompany the clatter of keys).

[starcat-jewel.livejournal.com]

If you like soundtrack-style music, I can recommend any of Christopher Franke's Babylon 5 albums for a good dose of dark. And if techno-rock is acceptable, Sisters of Mercy's "Floodlands" is terrific -- I've always envisioned it as the potential soundtrack for a Neil Gaiman "Sandman" movie!

[lynx-rufus.livejournal.com]

Oooh, these sound good, thank you!

[jhetley.livejournal.com]

Well, Alice is a character in a fantasy novel, so she isn't limited to my record library. However, I had been thinking of either his Second Symphony or Tapiola or the Four Legends-"Swan of Touenela" when I wrote that section. Most of his stuff is rather darkish, I'd say. Some of his symphonies remind me of the winter wind in our stovepipe....

[lynx-rufus.livejournal.com]

Thank you! I will look for those this weekend. Perhaps the percussion section will remind me of our cantankerous furnace. :)