{"id":4894,"date":"2010-03-15T19:37:45","date_gmt":"2010-03-16T01:37:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.conradaskland.com\/blog\/?p=4894"},"modified":"2010-03-16T22:11:36","modified_gmt":"2010-03-17T04:11:36","slug":"current-musical-adventures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/current-musical-adventures\/","title":{"rendered":"Current Musical Adventures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/conrad-bunny.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4898\" title=\"conrad-bunny\" src=\"http:\/\/www.conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/conrad-bunny.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"250\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>An update on current activities. I&#8217;ve received a couple emails asking why I&#8217;m not blogging so much. After \u00a0making it through Chinese New Year here in Macau, China I was able to take a long overdue vacation and return to the United States for the first time in two years. (Beloved Skagit County, Washington USA &#8211; I didn&#8217;t visit down in Southern California).\u00a0The break gave me a chance to bring some more gear back to China and to set new goals and aspirations for myself &#8211; pretty much like starting a new year.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>So here&#8217;s what I&#8217;m doing. Still doing 8-10 shows a week with Cirque Du Soleil&#8217;s ZAIA in Macau, China as keyboardist and assistant bandleader. Also brought an Excelsior accordion back with me so I can practice and improve my chops (along with 10 volumes of Palmer &#8211; Hughes accordion books and another 8 pounds of polkas and waltzes).<\/p>\n<p>But the big excitement for me is my renewed studies in orchestration. I am studying specifically the orchestrations of Tchaikovsky, Puccini, Mozart, Mahler and assorted others. This all as background work for a personal project that I am reading on voraciously. It is all consuming for me because there is no ceiling to what can be done &#8211; it&#8217;s all up to my own focus and commitment.<\/p>\n<p>I am putting a hold on working on my internet networks because frankly it bores me right now. But orchestration and creativity are what call me at the current time. So I will follow that voice for now.<\/p>\n<p>And as I work in my Macau apartment at my new mega workstation setup with keyboards, computers and reference books &#8211; I can look out from my penthouse and view the water in Macau as I drink Starbuck&#8217;s coffee. I would say life is good and it would be a crime not to use this opportunity to push myself to the limits and see what I can offer creatively.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An update on current activities. I&#8217;ve received a couple emails asking why I&#8217;m not blogging so much. After \u00a0making it through Chinese New Year here in Macau, China I was able to take a long overdue vacation and return to the United States for the first time in two years. (Beloved Skagit County, Washington USA [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3C0LX-1gW","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4894"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4894"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4894\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4903,"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4894\/revisions\/4903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}