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I STILL can't connect to WSO. Again. Can someone:
a.) tell me what's wrong with my putty settings
b.) tell me what's wrong with my Eudora settings
c.) tell me what's wrong with my Thunderbird settings?

argh. i could webmail in New Mexico, but haven't been able to check since I got back.

Things you want to know!

Here's what ltlbird wants to know.

( What is the best way for you to be productive (music on, no music on? cup of tea? tasty snacks? in your room, in the library?) )

( What is your favorite way to procrastinate? )

( Who is the strangest person you've encountered through grad school (in a good or bad way, take your pick)? )

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I'm working on a presentation tomorrow for Choral Lit. It's work - I have to sit down and concentrate hard and make myself do it - but it's also kind of fun. I'm reminded that if this is the most intense work I have to do in music school, life ain't bad.

For your edification, a brief explanation of Futurism, excerpted from my handout:

Luigi Russolo, a painter, who published his Art of Noises in 1913, was the first important Futurist musician, and created his own noise machines, which he labeled Intonarumori. The best explanation of Futurism in music may be to look at the arrangement of Russolo’s Intonarumori into six categories, which he intended to form the basis of the Futurist orchestra:

1	2	3	4	5	6
Rumbles	Whistles	Whispers	Screeches	Noises	Voices of
Roars	Hisses	Murmurs	Creaks	obtained by	animals
Explosions	Snorts	Mumbles	Rustles	percussion on	and men:
Crashes		Grumbles	Buzzes	on metal,	Shouts, Screams,
Splashes		Gurgles	Crackles	wood, skin,	Groans, Shrieks,
Booms			Scrapes	stone,	Howls, Laughs,
				terracotta, etc.	Wheezes, Sobs

feed me (info), seymour

I have two requests for input, one serious, one whimsical.

It is becoming increasingly obvious to me that in order to have a proper understanding of music history I need to have a solid basic understanding of the Russian Revolution of 1917. Can people suggest books or other sources that are more thorough than a paragraph on the internet, but not too dense?

I today created a spreadsheet called "The Ideal Library." This is to help me remember the stuff I'd like to have in my library eventually, but do not yet possess, and do not feel a pressing need to acquire immediatelyrightthisminute. It has 3 sections - music, books, and video. What, in your educated opinion, should go in it?