It's Gray And Gross Out There...

… or at least it is here in D.C., although happily it’s not also freezing, so hey small blessings. How y’all been?

I’m at Classical WETA today, holding down the fort by myself as usual. I don’t know about y’all, but I kinda love working by myself. The WETA-TV control-room crew is here, of course, but they’re on the other side of my floor and like me they spend most of their time behind a soundproof, magnetically sealed airlock door and thick plate glass that silences the outside world. We’re like people in different wings of a space station, theoretically working together but pretty much isolated from one another unless we happen to collide on the way to the canteen.

This mug is completely illegal, btw. Not supposed to be drinking from an open container near the boards. I am a scofflaw, and I am heartily ashamed.

The Classical WETA studio is where I get a reasonable amount of writing done. The music is conducive, especially the larger works, and already today I’ve played all of the Four…