Jan 15 (Var 2)

My lamp rattles. And it's getting worse. If it were anything else, I could just take it off the piano. But I need the lamp. It's dark in Duluth! And we don't have overhead lighting. Thus I suffer through the rattling. You probably won't be able to hear it, but trust that it's driving me batty.

I played through the first two movements today, just to make sure I still could, and I still could! That's going to be a bigger and bigger challenge as time goes on; a single performance of all of this runs well over an hour. I'll probably have to set up a schedule for which days I practice which movements. For now, it's fine though.

Here it is, by the way. Systematically attacking the ending for the first time today; If I have enough time tomorrow I think I'll have the whole thing figured out. Then it's just a matter of polish!