I'm really, really freaked out about this audition. I can play all the excerpts pretty well, but not as well as they need to be played. I think about having a panel of professional musicians hear them and I squirm. I didn't realize, before this, the kind of perfection that was necessary - I figured if you could hit the notes it was ok, you know ( Read more... )

I am clearly a monstrous slug type creature sliming my way towards you.

MAKE WAY!!

Uh, yeah. Also: Alex Klein wins.

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Eight thirty to five is having the unexpected side effect of making me cook more. There aren't any places to go for food around my new work except subway and MacDonalds. Neither appeals to me, so I've been actually making food the night before. Madness ( Read more... )

I'm beginning to really get excited about playing the Saint-Saens Sonata (enough that it's spilling into my real blog, even!) If any of you want to hear me play it before January (My big recital is going to be around the middle of January) you should come to the Vancouver Academy of Music Scholarship recital on November 1st at 730pm (it's at the ( Read more... )

So, I appear to be taking Karate now. I'm debating actually signing up after the free trial, too - the class is really well run and the basics make more sense to me than the capoeira ones did (however pretty they may have been to watch ( Read more... )

Bach scoreshehe-> For everyone sake and also for bandwidth reasons, please do not download the entire archive at once. We have people reporting that they have crashed their own computers because of this ( Read more... )

well. Ok, so it's the morning, what's good about it today ( Read more... )

Dear gods...LISTEN to THIS if you haven't yet. It actually brought a tear to my eye.

Quote of the day:

"If music were to assume human form and explain its essence, it may say something like this: '...I love the vast surface of silence; and it is my chief delight to break it.'"

- Carl Nielsen

also, this is pretty awesome.

One oboist plays ( Read more... )

( Why I'm going to finish my unproductive day practicing! )