Yesterday I started breaking down examples for my pedagogy presentation and made parts for the first and second movements of my quartet. Composition is going well too, although the piece took a detour yesterday and ended up somewhere unexpected. So far it's resisted my attempts at getting to the ending I had in my head, so I'm just going to let it drive for awhile and see where it takes me. I'm hoping to finish the essence of this movement sometime this week.

Here's a funny commercial for Chun King Chow Mein from the 50s. This kind of Chinese mocking would never get by in today's climate (MP3, 942KB).