Elizabeth

Besides the fact that I'm ill and stuffy nose, today wasn't bad at all! As a matter of fact, today (now officially yesterday, since it's 12:06am, but whatev...) was a very joyful day for me. I feel like I'm regaining the life I left 2 years ago, that I'll have back in just three weeks.

Today (yesterday, whatev), I recieved a package from the UK, copy of a wonderful book that I been waiting for, Shrike by author Quentin S. Crisp. As soon as I could open it I started to read... [to be continued]


So, after all that excitement, and some time of study, I stumbled upon a piece of my past...

Some years ago, two and a half, maybe three, while studying classical guitar, Maestro José Luis Navarro, my teacher, happened to play a tone that inmediatly struck me as something to remember. So, I peered over the desk, and took note of the name on the sheet music "Jaleo de Jerez(xerez, maybe?)". As soon as I got home, I googled, and asked, and did everything in my poder to find a mention of that piece on the Internet, to no success. I played the two or three notes that I rememeber (which I could clearly recalled today), and then forgot about it, I guess. Like many other music heard in that class, it became part of a past life, something IB would never give my mind the time to ponder about.

My teacher (who moved to D.F., Mexico a year and a half ago) today happened to upload a video on youtube which I happened to click on.

The first movement... nice, I thought... The second... quite short.... The third... OMGOMGOMG!!!
I knew immediately and I almost stated crying from joy, as my kid brother looked at me and wondered what the hell was going on... "El Jaleo de Xerez"...





It's still so fresh in my mind...
And like this, many other pieces of music that I long to play, but have not the skill anymore still ring in my mind. For examples for years, the following video was the only way I could hear again "La Rosa de los Cuatro Vientos" from composer Julio César Oliva (I'm in that video, though I don't actually play). That incomplete video, and a partichelo (I belive it was called), just the sheet music for one guitar, one voice of the melody I would play alone:





But now, I can finally hear the complete tune:

La Rosa de los Cuatro Vientos




It feels as if I'm starting to gain back what was taken from me by the evil IB [except the previous post about missing my friends to death, their cool]...

Unfortunately for me, I didn't study even a bit today for my May examinations :/ ...
I should probable be sleeping.