Libby Weber's Blog, page 2
May 9, 2020
My Bad.
Im sorry, everyone. I think this is all my fault. This is what happens when one signs off an early-March post like this:
Heres hoping for a significantly less dramatic month to come!
Smooches (the non-sticky and germ-free sort) to All!
Yeah sorry about that.
As youve likely gathered, all of the music I blithely posted about in early March was cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic. Im grateful, truly, that I managed to sing into mid-March without falling ill. Not long after that, a...
March 2, 2020
Video Games Can, Indeed, Save Your Life.
On the last day of January, I was tidying up after a meeting, and I started to feel unwell. Having just eaten lunch, I reckoned it was a spot of food poisoning. I managed to make it home without incident, sent my spouse to the symphony without me, and went straight to bed, hoping that I would wake up, be violently ill, and feel immediately better.
However, by the time he got home from the concert, the general pain in my stomach had migrated to the lower right quadrant of my abdomen. I told...
December 2, 2019
Inappropriate Cracks
The Season of But(t) Thanks is upon us! That is to say, it’s Advent, and therefore Messiah season! This is, of course, opposed to the Season of But(t) Dust (Ash Wednesday/Lent). Which is alsoMessiah season, of course, just different bits of Messiah. Still!
As a church musician, the But(t) Seasons (Advent and Lent) are my absolutely favorites, and not only because I get to make puerile jokes about them. The music is incredible. I mean, obviously, Christmas music is great! I love that, too! But...
October 9, 2019
A Seasonal-ish Limerick
There was a young fellow named Hall
Who fell in the spring in the fall.
‘Twould have been a sad thing
Had he died in the spring,
But he didn’t — he died in the fall.
I wish I could claim credit for that gem, but the author’s identity has been lost in the mists of time. But it is one of my favorite Limericks, and one I think of fondly in the fall. Morbid puns in rhyme form are perfect for the change of seasons and the approach of Halloween.
I suspect it will shock exactly none of you to know t...
June 27, 2019
Sumer Is Icumen In, bonus niceness
I blinked and suddenly it was summer, at least in fact, if not in feel. It’s been pretty grey, wet, and misty late of late, but thankfully, we’ve had a few nice days to take the Long Low Ladies to the beach.
[image error]Sumer Is Icumen In, bonus words
I blinked and suddenly it was summer, at least in fact, if not in feel. It’s been pretty grey, wet, and misty late of late, but thankfully, we’ve had a few nice days to take the Long Low Ladies to the beach.
[image error]April 11, 2019
The uncertain glory of an April day
The weeks have been flying by, as they tend to do when the weather is glorious and the air is redolent of flowers. Even Fiesta Island Dog Park has gone super-bloom-y!
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This is the Least Tern nesting area that is open to frolicking doggos when it’s not nesting season. They mowed most of the island under for fire safety reasons (also tumbling tumbleweeds), but let the flowers run rampant in this section of the park. You can’t tell from this angle, but there are loads of happy dogs running throu...
January 23, 2019
Hitting the ground running
I’m glad I managed to grab a bit of R&R after the December Gauntlet of 2018, since 2019 is off to a rip-roaring start! I’m working up four sets of repertoire for three different choirs, my day job is in high gear through March, and this is that wonderful time of year when people who dwell in the frozen parts of the country come visit me in San Diego, which is one of my favorite things about living here. Beyond that, I’m reading ALL THE AWESOME BOOKS, have been taking Clara and Hildegard (the...
November 20, 2018
Thankfulness
The end of the year is fast approaching, my in-laws are visiting, and I have a schmancy Thanksgiving feast on order from a local purveyor of deliciousness so as to tax neither my sanity nor my 50+ year old electric stove. And while this is indeed an occasion for gratitude and joy, I have a few extra things to be grateful for this year.
Firstly, this summer I was approached by my musician friend Ken Martin, who expressed interested in setting one of my sonnets for choir. I sent him a selection...
October 8, 2018
Wait, where did summer go?
How is it already October?
On the bright side, October contains Oktoberfest, Halloween, AND is the birth month of Healey Willan, the Anglo-Canadian composer who is the focus of Willan West 2018, a year-long festival of his music in this fiftieth year since his death.
In mid-October, the Willan Collective, a group comprised of Willan-loving singers, will be singing not one, not two, but three separate events in honor of Willan’s birthday weekend! I myself will be singing a massive choral conce...
