IT'S A GOOD THING I GET UP AT 3:55

posted by James Reel

    In case you assume I fritter away the day working on sodoku puzzles, here, in no particular order, are the things I need to do before crawling into bed tonight at 9:
     Edit two art-related articles by Margaret Regan for the next edition of the Tucson Weekly.
     Figure out a mutually agreeable day and time to interview Gidon Kremer about his new recording of Bach’s sonatas and partitas for solo violin.
     Finish compiling the index for Nathan F. Sayre’s new book, Working Wilderness: The Malpai Borderlands Group and the Future of the Western Range, forthcoming from Rio Nuevo Publishers.
     Complete the research for an article I’m writing about Leopold Mozart’s 1756 treatise on violin playing.
     Write an article about a real estate investment firm for a supplement to be stuffed into Inside Tucson Business.
     Get members of the Ciompi and Lindsay quartets to commit to interviews for an article I’m writing on the first string quartet of Nathaniel Stookey.
     Set up a day and time to give technical advice to a friend who’s writing a biography of Ethel Merman (“Irving Berlin tailored the songs in Annie Get Your Gun to Ethel’s voice by making them loud.”)
     Either take a 30-minute nap or guzzle some Red Bull to fortify myself for the afternoon.
    * Put on my Arizona Friends of Chamber Music cap and talk to a co-owner of the local Steinway Gallery about a piano we're thinking about buying.
     Put off exercise and cello practice to another day.
     Finish my air shift, doing each break as if the only thing on my mind were sitting down with you to share some wonderful music.
    * Avoid distracting myself with thoughts of things I’ll have to do tomorrow.