Good morning, all! Yesterday was quite a long day and my hurdle of a weekend is not yet over. The most tedious and time-comsuming is the booklet for the Herbert songs. I've found a few things already, but the most involved part is checking the layout of the German texts with the English versions andassuring that I missed nothing when I converted my files per the New World Records request. I've already found one spot and it looks like there may be several others. Oy.
I've also got Joshie's newest corrections to the DEAREST ENEMY vocal score, which have to be proofed along with the last four numbers in the score so he can begn the final round of work, which he's juggling between Encores! and a couple of other jobs, and at any time now I'm due for another orchestra score or two for the Rodgers & Hart show (seven full scores to go!). I plan to work my proverbial butt off this morning on the booklet, see at noon where things stand, and make a decision about attending the HHW meetup this afternoon. Work and play in New York, as a self-employed person, have always had their conflicts for me, which is why "Finishing the Hat" moved me so much when I saw the original workshop of SUNDAY IN THE PARK WITH GEORGE:
Finishing the hat
How you have to finish the hat
How you watch the rest of the world
From a window
While you finish the hat
Mapping out a sky
What it feels like, planning a sky
How it feels when voices that come
Through the window go
Until they distance and die
That's my day, and that is the end of the news.
More coffee,