Comments for Living on the Lip of Insanity

Comment on Meh by Kate Tabor

Kate Tabor — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 12:34:12 +0000

Stretching your split is pretty critical, so maybe I’ll throw all three of them on a plane to you. I’m going to send you two links to some photos on facebook that you can show her. You can’t get there unless you stretch your split.
Three keys to life in circus: flexibility, strength, teamwork. Oh, and a sense of humor.

Comment on Meh by jessica

jessica — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 05:11:12 +0000

could your daughter please come here and stretch with my daughter who loves gymnastics but won’t listen to her coach to stretch b/c she needs to learn to do a full split. She is so annoyed with me, I just leave it alone now.

Comment on Many Voices by Kate Tabor

Kate Tabor — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 23:16:46 +0000

I just love the whole idea of the motet. Each individual voice being as important as the others blending, some backing off to let other voice move to the front, sometimes all voices sounding one chord. The technical virtuosity that it must take to write one is staggering. But as a metaphor – each voice building, enhancing, magnifying the others – all working together on a glorious whole knowing that the others will all be bringing beauty as well – such a metaphor I love.

Comment on Many Voices by Paul C

Paul C — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 22:07:33 +0000

Love the metaphor: many voices as one. I enjoyed singing the Bach motets in university, the fugues intertwined, repeating, repeating the glorious theme.

Comment on Many Voices by Kate Tabor

Kate Tabor — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 18:12:46 +0000

I know which one you are referring to, but I’m just in awe of the technical aspects of the art here. This piece is often performed with the 40 voices around the hall, so they all have to know right where they are at any moment and trust that the sound that is merging in the middle is happening. Gary Lewis would have LOVED this. I’m surprised (and only slightly facetiously) that we didn’t try it and only stayed with those eight voiced motets.

We should find some folks to sing with.

Comment on Many Voices by liz

liz — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 17:48:46 +0000

It is beautiful. I have always like motets. There is a soprano though in this that is a bit jarring for me.

Comment on Banned (not Band) Books by Kate Tabor

Kate Tabor — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 01:04:17 +0000

Just so you know, I consider you one of those excellent people not afraid to read about something different than what you know.

Comment on Banned (not Band) Books by Kate Tabor

Kate Tabor — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 01:03:18 +0000

You know, after working with them for 3 weeks now I can see that what we need is not another book but some directed effort at vocabulary building, sentence construction, and spelling. So without making it onerous I've decided to use short stories to help with some of these things and not add another book right away. I am going to use Little Brother as a parent/kid book group book and then if it looks like my multifarious approach to grammar and usage is working, add the Graveyard Book. This way I can have it all!! I love Tiger Eyes (BTW).

Comment on Banned (not Band) Books by Paul C

Paul C — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 23:11:02 +0000

Bravo and well said:

‘Here’s to those of us not afraid to read about something different than what we know and think for ourselves!’

Comment on Banned (not Band) Books by Fran Harvey

Fran Harvey — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 20:15:14 +0000

Some of my favourite books are on that list. I read and reread Tiger Eyes endlessly when I was a kid. It would never occur to me that many books on the list are even challengable – but I’m glad you’ve got so many of them available for your class. I guess books that are, in themselves, challenging are always going to cause a stir.
Hitchhiker’s Guide, though? Really?

I wondered if you had chosen your final reading list book yet?