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I sang Compline on Thursday night, for the first time in a while. We sang two pieces by Thomas Tallis: his motet "If Ye Love Me" as the introit, and a recently reconstructed (whatever that means) setting of the Nunc Dimittis. I enjoyed it very much, although there was one bad entrance in the Nunc. I found the Nunc Dimittis rather remarkable for its heavy use of cross relations -- are they common in Tallis, or in Renaissance music in general?
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katertoticus's apartment, where we hung out and made yummy chocolate chip cookies. Unfortunately, that night, I awoke at 4 in the morning with a fever and violent chills. I do believe I'm better now, after having spent most of yesterday in bed or on the couch.
This morning's UChoir service music was the chorus "Awake the harp" from Haydn's The Creation and the final chorus "Then shall your light break forth" from Mendelssohn's Elijah, both of which I enjoyed, particularly the Mendelssohn. The Reverend Dr. Wesley D. Aram, the pastor of the Bryn Mawr Presbyterian Church, preached about Christian forgiveness this morning. Out of curiosity, do any of the Mawrtyrs reading this know anyone who goes to that church? Next Sunday, we are doing Bach's Cantata 196, to which I am looking forward immensely.
Classes -- I went to the first meeting of Intro to Quantum Theory of Solids on Thursday. Perhaps the most remarkable thing about the course is the professor himself, who is literally seven feet tall (a classmate of mine, who's working in the lab this visiting professor is affiliated with, found out that he's 6'11"). The podium in the classroom barely reaches his waist. He began with crystal structures and Bravais lattices, as I suppose most solid state courses do, and he seemed to be quite good based on that first lecture. I also had my first lab for Electronics on Friday; I didn't realize just how draining a long afternoon of lab could be. My partner and I left shortly before 6 with quite a few people still working. This will be a very good course with a lot of useful material, but it will take a lot of time. At the end of it, though, I should hopefully be competent with analog and digital circuits.
Next Saturday is the annual English-Scottish Ball at Swarthmore; I know of a number of people who are going and whom it would be nice to see, includinggallian. I am contemplating going, although the travel arrangements would be crazy -- I would probably leave promptly after lab, get to Bryn Mawr or Swarthmore late in the evening, and unless I were to leave halfway through the ball, get up around 5 to take an early-morning flight out of Philadelphia to make it back by 9:45 for UChoir. But it would be nice to see people there, and I doubt I would have that staggering of a workload after the first full week of classes.
Friday evening, after going to dinner with a buch of my classmates, we went over to
katertoticus's apartment, where we hung out and made yummy chocolate chip cookies. Unfortunately, that night, I awoke at 4 in the morning with a fever and violent chills. I do believe I'm better now, after having spent most of yesterday in bed or on the couch.This morning's UChoir service music was the chorus "Awake the harp" from Haydn's The Creation and the final chorus "Then shall your light break forth" from Mendelssohn's Elijah, both of which I enjoyed, particularly the Mendelssohn. The Reverend Dr. Wesley D. Aram, the pastor of the Bryn Mawr Presbyterian Church, preached about Christian forgiveness this morning. Out of curiosity, do any of the Mawrtyrs reading this know anyone who goes to that church? Next Sunday, we are doing Bach's Cantata 196, to which I am looking forward immensely.
Classes -- I went to the first meeting of Intro to Quantum Theory of Solids on Thursday. Perhaps the most remarkable thing about the course is the professor himself, who is literally seven feet tall (a classmate of mine, who's working in the lab this visiting professor is affiliated with, found out that he's 6'11"). The podium in the classroom barely reaches his waist. He began with crystal structures and Bravais lattices, as I suppose most solid state courses do, and he seemed to be quite good based on that first lecture. I also had my first lab for Electronics on Friday; I didn't realize just how draining a long afternoon of lab could be. My partner and I left shortly before 6 with quite a few people still working. This will be a very good course with a lot of useful material, but it will take a lot of time. At the end of it, though, I should hopefully be competent with analog and digital circuits.
Next Saturday is the annual English-Scottish Ball at Swarthmore; I know of a number of people who are going and whom it would be nice to see, including
gallian. I am contemplating going, although the travel arrangements would be crazy -- I would probably leave promptly after lab, get to Bryn Mawr or Swarthmore late in the evening, and unless I were to leave halfway through the ball, get up around 5 to take an early-morning flight out of Philadelphia to make it back by 9:45 for UChoir. But it would be nice to see people there, and I doubt I would have that staggering of a workload after the first full week of classes.
