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The performances are over, and the verdict is good! If you didn't get to see the live broadcasts, no worries -- the Kennedy Center keeps the videos in the archives for a long time -- Friday's show is here.

Not much time for post-premiere aimlessness. I was too busy to keep good track of my students' homework. Now it's time to get my records organized and crack the whip. They will be thrilled, I'm sure, that the free ride is over.

Other good news -- another project has moved out of the vaporware stage. I contributed an article to The SuperCollider Book, forthcoming from MIT Press. For a number of reasons, the publication date got pushed back to Spring 2011, leading the understandably impatient SuperCollider user community to speculate about the future of the book.

No need for further speculation -- the book is in the public catalog!

http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=12571

Soon, more bubbly to pass around, then.

Last night, we were invited to a concert by the Guangzhou Symphony Orchestra, playing Ravel's Ma mère l'oye (Mother Goose), Henri Dutilleux's Métaboles, and the Ravel orchestration of Pictures at an Exhibition. Respectable, enjoyable readings throughout. I joked at intermission that the Dutilleux piece should have been retitled Identity Crisis -- it could never decide what it wanted to be. That one was a worry even before the concert started. It's a victim of the 20th-century modernist trend of pseudo-scientific titles for musical works. Except in the hands of Varèse, that is usually a sign of trouble ahead. This was unfortunately no exception.