Classes!
Studio: Had first meeting this morning. My lesson this time is at a much more reasonable hour. I plan on broaching the "uh um I'm thinking I guess about maybe a uh junior half recital whatdoyouthink" subject tomorrow.
Band: Had seating audition yesterday, won't get results till rehearsal tomorrow. Sightreading was a bear.
Chamber: No class till next week, haven't gotten ensemble assignment either.
Theory: Nice mix of people in the class. I've been getting "she's hard but AWESOME" vibes from the juniors. Wasn't given the best opening impression of her lecture skills today; all she did was read quotes by modern composers (without telling us who said what) and playing short excerpts of modern works (without telling us what they are) to "get us thinking".
No eartraining till tomorrow.
History: Evening class, urgh. Mixed feelings about prof's style. Annoying middle-aged woman in class who keeps nodding and making affirmative noises at prof's words.
Conducting: Two grad students instead of prof, bad. One of them is Gary, good. One of them is Takuya, bad. I just bought my baton today and am way too excited about it, good.
187: same people as last time. haven't gone out to school yet, not till next week.
Foundations of secondary ed: 3 students in class, including me. Basically last year's class minus the homeschool recorder fiasco times two. Much more writing and conducting.
String pedagody: 4 students in class, including me. Well, at least we have the personnel for a string quartet.
It's both very lucky and pretty weird that my music ed methods classes have a handful of students in them. We get a lot of face time with professors (not even doctoral classes are this small, for the most part) and get a lot more time in front of the class/ensemble than we would in a, say, 17-person class (the current freshmen). But there's nowhere to hide the suck, as Amber put it.
Band: Had seating audition yesterday, won't get results till rehearsal tomorrow. Sightreading was a bear.
Chamber: No class till next week, haven't gotten ensemble assignment either.
Theory: Nice mix of people in the class. I've been getting "she's hard but AWESOME" vibes from the juniors. Wasn't given the best opening impression of her lecture skills today; all she did was read quotes by modern composers (without telling us who said what) and playing short excerpts of modern works (without telling us what they are) to "get us thinking".
No eartraining till tomorrow.
History: Evening class, urgh. Mixed feelings about prof's style. Annoying middle-aged woman in class who keeps nodding and making affirmative noises at prof's words.
Conducting: Two grad students instead of prof, bad. One of them is Gary, good. One of them is Takuya, bad. I just bought my baton today and am way too excited about it, good.
187: same people as last time. haven't gone out to school yet, not till next week.
Foundations of secondary ed: 3 students in class, including me. Basically last year's class minus the homeschool recorder fiasco times two. Much more writing and conducting.
String pedagody: 4 students in class, including me. Well, at least we have the personnel for a string quartet.
It's both very lucky and pretty weird that my music ed methods classes have a handful of students in them. We get a lot of face time with professors (not even doctoral classes are this small, for the most part) and get a lot more time in front of the class/ensemble than we would in a, say, 17-person class (the current freshmen). But there's nowhere to hide the suck, as Amber put it.