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As I continue working through this site’s new look and functionality on the back end, I suppose it’s time to figure out how posting music looks and works here. I haven’t listened to this in quite a while, but it’s always a delight to come back to: the ballet “Dance of the Hours” from Amilcare Ponchielli’s opera La Gioconda. The opera is one that to this day I’ve never heard, but it’s still a mainstay on the international repertoire, even though full stagings are infrequent because the opera’s complexity and scale makes it expensive to do. Ponchielli is almost entirely knownDown the rabbit hole….

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One last meta-post for now, though I obviously still have some tinkering under the hood to do. I especially want to get rid of the way “Share this post” shows up on the main page as if it’s part of the text of the post. That bugs me. Also, though I like the appearance of this WordPress theme, I still haven’t figured out how the widgets work, so currently I’m not sure how to fix my sidebar the way I want it. (One of my blogging quirks is that eventually I always come to not like my sidebar set-up.) I’mDown the rabbit hole….

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Well, here we are…after a week of writing multiple “test” posts, only a few of which actually made it to the site, we seem to be back up and running. At least, I think we are. We’ll find out in a minute after I finish typing this. And as I write this, I suddenly realize that I’m in the old WordPress editor. Where the hell are my Blocks? I like blocks! What’s going on here??? How do I get my blocks back? Anyone? Share This PostDown the rabbit hole….

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Here’s another test. Yes, the site looks weird. Apparently there was a conflict in my old site theme with some of the WordPress plug-ins that I rely on, which caused all manner of hardship. The advice I received was to try a new theme and see if things work again…and here we are. I will not be staying on this theme, but I will be taking this unplanned opportunity to freshen up the look of this site. Meanwhile, we appear to be up and running again. Yay! Share This PostDown the rabbit hole….

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EDIT: And now, individual post links don’t load, so you can only read what’s here on the main page. I am getting so close to killing this blog. Well, it looks like I can at least post again reliably, which is nice. I still have some back-end functionality stuff that is still not right, and I will be contacting my hosting service in the next couple of days to politely request that they give me a refund or discount since a malfunction on their end resulted in loss of functionality and a loss of actual data, which is not acceptable to me. I’m notDown the rabbit hole….

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This is a test. The site encountered some more tech issues earlier this week, and these issues have actually damaged the site…you may notice that about six weeks’ worth of posts have disappeared. I am still working on various issues that haven’t resolved yet. Please bear with me! And this was supposed to be a good “content creation” week, too…dammit…. Share This PostDown the rabbit hole….

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I promised a longer post about the Artemis II mission that successfully splashed down some days ago, but…I don’t know that I have a longer post about it, really. I do have a pretty short one: I’m thrilled to confirm that even as so much about the world seems to be going wildly wrong–and it’s doing so because a lot of people that we have chosen to run things openly want the world to go wildly wrong, as long as they’re benefitting from it–we humans are still at heart a species that is always looking over the next hill, around the next bendDown the rabbit hole….

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Jessie Montgomery’s atmospheric and cyclical work “Rounds” is up this week. The piece, for piano and strings, takes inspiration from poet TS Eliot: Rounds for solo piano and string orchestra is inspired by the imagery and themes from T.S. Eliot’s epic poem Four Quartets. Early in the first poem, Burnt Norton, we find these evocative lines : At the still point of the turning world. Neither flesh nor fleshless;Neither from nor towards; at the still point, there the dance is,But neither arrest nor movement. And do not call it fixity,Where past and future are gathered. Neither movement from nor towards,Neither ascent nor decline.Down the rabbit hole….

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I’ve just come through what has been a particularly obnoxious period of time at work…my main work area was relocated, and the great majority of the work involved in relocating my work area fell on me, so I guess a better way of saying that would be, “I relocated my work area.” In the middle of that relocation effort I had a brief mini-vacation that felt more like a pause to gather breath than an actual break, and even while moving all of my Stuff I still had to execute normal job duties along the way. (By way of analogy, IDown the rabbit hole….