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June
In june, the Don kept his cards close to his chest for a while. It later emerged that he had been working for a considerable time on the Courante from a Bach Cello Suite (C-major). We hope this will soon be performable.
In the meantime, he produced a sturtering version of Merlin's Evocation which, because of - rather than despite of - its stuttering mistakes, expressed, he believes, the self-inspection and associated sorrow that accompanies rejection. The poem was written in 2001 for Charlotte, devourer of hope...
In 2001 the part of me that is not schizophrenic recorded Ferrer's Ejercicio. I had only two years before-hand begun to try playing classical guitar music from sheet. A precious copy of 'First Repertoire for Solo Guitar' fed me. But I was without a 'fitness-instructor', as it were: anything was fair game, and where I found sixth notes a little irksome, I modifed them to whole notes.
Five years later, having taken the time to actually read the score and the instructor's intentions, crying out to me from a century past to take the original transcription seriously, I reconsidered.
I can only refer back to the analogy of the apprentice and the master: restiveness is a quality that seems to recede with time. Learning, indeed, youth, is wasted on the young.
Is it a humiliation to acknowledge that your youthful ignorance did not (contrary to what you thought) excel those who went before? True fact: the first time I played this to a /lady/, she giggled and said it made her think of monks.
