"Nice Work If You Can Get It..."

Well, well, well... My cavernous brain is quite devoid of thought this evening. I think I shall discuss music, since that is always a jolly topic for me. I'm listening to some Thelonious Monk at the moment, really good stuff. There are two things that I enjoy about Monk. The first is that so many notes in his improvisations sound completely wrong, and yet sound so very right. That's also one of the great things about jazz in general, I suppose. The other thing is the saxophone. Although Monk is a pianist, he often features a saxophone, especially on the Monk's Dream album. There are some really great sax lines on that album, and I think it's pretty cool. I don't like vocal jazz and I don't really get into some of the larger ensembles, but I really like small ensemble instrumental jazz. 

So, that is what I am thinking about tonight. Perhaps something more substantive will emerge tomorrow. We shall see...

On a side note, here is a monologue I plan to use for the upcoming musical auditions. It's from the movie Amadeus and is delivered by the character of Antonio Salieri.

"My plan was so simple that it terrified me. First I must get the death mass and then I, I must achieve his death. His funeral! Imagine it, all of Vienna there, Mozart's coffin, Mozart's little coffin in the middle, and then suddenly, in that silence, music! A divine music bursts out over them all. A great mass of death! Requiem mass for Wolfgang Mozart, composed by his dear friend, Antonio Salieri! Oh what sublimity, what depth, what passion in the music! Salieri has been touched by God at last. And God is forced to listen!! Powerless, powerless to stop it! I, for once in the end, laughing at him!! The only thing that bothered me was the actual killing. How does one do that? Hmmm? How does one kill a man? Well it's one thing to dream about it; very different when you, when you have to do it with your own hands."