March 24, 2020--Daily Practice Blog in the time of the virus

So, i have set up a daily routine. We will see if I can stick to it. Today, I was pretty close.
7:00 am—get up
8:00 am—breakfast and catchup on news
8:30 am—shower and shave. Get dressed for day.
9:00 am—practice either organ or piano for at 1-2 hours. Grade papers if time.
11:00 am-1:30 pm—Work on classes, grade papers.
1:30 pm—lunch.
2:00 pm—1-2 hours practice either organ or piano. Grade papers if time.
4:00 pm—Grade papers or work on correspondence course.
6:00 pm—make dinner
7:00 – 8:00 pm—eat dinner and watch TV.
9:00 pm—write online blogs. Read if time.
10:00 pm—read in bed until ready for sleep.

Lunch was a little later than planned, but that is what happens. I know, through the course of several summer breaks, that if I don't have some sort of regimen--I will get nothing done. Today was a good day.

It started off with rolling out of bed and getting breakfast--a fruit drink my wife and I have been making for about 9 months now. I was ready to leave the house by 9 am and got to my office for some brief work before getting to the organ for some practice time. I got home a little after 11:15, and got two of a three part lecture recorded and uploaded while having lunch in the middle of it. I got an hour and a half of practice on the piano in before dinner and responded to some emails about class. For dinner I made Chicken Tikka Masala with rice. We watched StarGate while eating. My parents called in to see how we were doing and I chatted for a bit. And that brings me to now. The plan is to watch Hogan's Heros and then go to bed.

On the organ, I worked on speeding up Bach's BWV 624 and getting the fingering in place for 625. I also brought back (at a slow speed) the first movement of Mendelssohn's B-flat Sonata. This is the music for Sunday's service.

On the piano, I practiced an anthem that a quartet is going to sing on Sunday (the theme from Vicar of Dibley) and then got to do what I wanted to do. Which rarely seems to happen until the fall of civilization. I practiced Liszt's Transcendental Etude No. 1 and Chopin's Etude No. 4 from Op. 10. I finished my practice with a read through of Brahms' Op. 10 Ballades. It was a good day.