Osmosis

I thought since I had so much music to learn in the next week I should come up with a system to absorb all of it. It’s been particularly hard since I’m still working my 9-5. What I decided to do is devote each day of the work week to a different program. Monday was Vaughan Williams and Poulenc, Tuesday was Stravinsky, Dvorak and Rutter. Today is Bach 'B-minor Mass' day. My plan has been to listen to the complete work(s) once in the morning and once after lunch. The evening is then devoted to working on solo rep and ironing out any trouble spots I have identified during the daytime listenings. I haven’t had be this disciplined in quite awhile. Hopefully the intervening few days between my liberation from work and my departure will be especially productive. Maybe I need to be sleeping with my Bach under my pillow...