Eric S notapenguin's blog: "musicstuffs version 2.0"

(No, not Benjamin Franklin, though the reader would not be the first person to confuse them.) See this earlier blog for a few details on my long-term project. Writing this blog to note that I've been starting up again, after another too-long gap, for a bit - though not with a movement of Frankel's 6th symphony of 1969 but the finale of his 7th, of 1970, instead -- as my "typesetting raw material", since his stepson provided me with the scores of both, along with other works, when I visited him in London in 1999. (Much appreciated, that...) By the way, the 7th begins and ends with lines, written on the score but not meant to be spoken during performance, from Christopher Marlowe's play, Doctor Faustus: "That time may cease and midnight never come" (p.1 of the score) "The stars move still, time runs, the clock will strike" (p. 133 - last page - of the score, at the bottom right) By this time (1970) he knew he had angina pectoris (see http://benjaminfrankel.org/?page_id=18 . He died in 1973, but "shadow of death" seems fair to describe those years in my opinion.) (These works have been performed a few times, and recorded - in the case of the 6th and 7th symphonies once each, on the cpo label out of Germany, about a decade ago. There are some brief sound samples of some works at the usual suspects - amazon, etc. - and longer ones at http://www.benjaminfrankel.org/ , along with biography and more information.)