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Concord, Mass, USA. Walden Pond is 1.7 miles in circumference.

Amazing what we Brits know...

Then there is the battle of Lexington Common... "what a glorious morning for America" and all that silly bilge. Oh you people... do you have any idea what it cost Britain to defend her colonies?

And that's the thanks we get...

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance - Robert M. Pirsig

"Isakskatedralen" by Kari Hotakainen

(No, I don't expect anyone else to read the same..)


About John Stainer's Crucifixion:
(originally posted by BruceD):
We have sung Crucifixion for Easter a few times, it is a work that is possible to perform with quite limited resources (even if I'm glad you did not hear it, Jason).
For me the expression of faith was the most important when singing my alto part. But I still like the chorals "For God so loved the world"
and "Jesus the crucified, pleads for me". I am not that happy about the more "majestic" parts.

Ragnhild

'Autobiography of a Yogi' - Paramahansa Yogananda

Also, 'The Power of Now' - Eckhart Tolle... this one's never finished I've got the hard-back at home and a well thumbed paperback which is with me constantly and in which I write notes.

cruiser

Reviewing Hesse's "Das Glasperlenspiel" This is moving up on my favorite books list.

Camus' "The Stranger"

Dennett's "Consciousness Explained"

If it counts, Griffith's E & M Book, an Analytical Chemistry Book, and an Anal. Chem. lab manual.

Daniel

Would any of those be coming out in a mini-series?

That's strange, isn't DNA contained *inside* the cell?

I'm reading Aunts Aren't Gentlemen by P.G.Wodehouse. Rather amusing

Famous Pianists and Their Technique (New Edition 2007) by Reginald R. Gerig, Indiana University Press

Even contains a whole chapter devoted to Ortmann and that perennially discusssed topic of "can touch effect tone?"

In addition to being a compelling survey of the last three centuries of keyboard technique developement it also contains a very useful topical index to the book and to the bibliography.

Topics thusly indexed:

1. The Aesthetic Imperative
2. Mental and Psychological Control
3. An Intellectual Grasp of Basic Technical Knowledge
4. Isolated Movements
5. Coordinated Movements
6. Muscular Coordination
7. The Kinesthetic Sense
8. Posture
9. Means for Specific Technical Development
10. Historical Concepts and Perspective of Piano Technical Thought

The need for a more exhaustive update of this book is perhaps best illustrated by the fact that Georgy Sandor enjoys only one meager anecdotal quote with virtually nothing said of his impact on piano pedagogy or development of technique.

No. As the sleeve note says - It shows that genes and DNA do not control our biology; that instead DNA is controlled by signals from outside the cell, including the energetic messages emanating from our positive and negative thoughts.

Now I've read it I can say he knows what he's talking about. If nothing else it's a great primer on cell biology. Stupid New Age cover.

Thejourney, you are the proud owner of the best book EVER on piano playing. Congrats.

On Piano Playing - Gyorgy Sandor
Mastering the Chopin Etudes and Other Essays - Abby Whiteside
The Odyssey - Homer
The Libation Bearers - Aeschylus

If you've read the Iliad, Agamemnon by Aeschylus is a really great read.

Frank Conroy's "Body & Sole". Just finished it for about the 7th time. It is inspirational for me as well as takeing place during a time and location I can relate to.

Rags and Ragtime: A Musical History, David A. Jasen and Trebor Jay Tichenor

Quirkology: How We Discover the Big Truths in Small Things, Richard Wiseman, Ph.D. The music-related chapter was about infrasound (very low frequencies) and how it's experienced without being heard. It was responsible for one researcher's lab equipment moving independently across the floor (a poltergeist!) and also for some strange feelings by audience members during a concert. He talks about it's effects from organs, and that it may be part of the response that moves people in ways they describe as being very close to God. His experiments are done in the "real world" (he did one of the follow-up experiments on the "6 degrees of separation" finding), but he also reports on lab experiments.

Cathy

"Shine" written by the wife of David Helpgod. Good book!! like the movie.