Productive meeting with the composition group on Thurs morning. (well, one of them at least!) Only by good fortune did we bump into another of the girls in the group. Turns out we are worrying far too prematurely about the Stockhausen presentation as the tutorial was supposed to focus on the Webern orchestrations. The tutor said it would be ok for me to do a big-size rock opera and have it count as 2 small pieces. If I do about another 9-10 mins of film music then that's all my composition done for the year ... joy. He was attempting to impress upon me the importance of starting the opera with a libretto and making use of the father/daughter interplay which Verdi does so well. Not quite sure what he's going on about since that wasn't my scenario anyway. Sounds illegal at any rate.
Found out that one of the girls, Gemma, comes from down south too, and in fact lives in Surbiton, right next door (almost) to Kingston where I went to grammar school! What a small world.
Pleased to see from the Q awards on TV that Muse picked up the gong for Best Live Act, and so they should. They are brilliant :)
Will now try to sleep for a couple of hours before the Suzuka GP qualifying at 1am, followed by the race at 6.30am. They have had to postpone qualifying since Typhoon 22 wreaked havoc across Suzuka on Friday/Saturday. Quite difficult to keep track (no pun) of things since Japan is 8 hrs ahead. Money on Button, Sato, and Raikkonen. Fingers: crossed. Prediction: rain, zzz..... Outcome: zzz....
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