I almost have a life again!!!

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There's light at the end of the tunnel. I'm finally done with the musical. And I'm halfway done with my audition tape. After 2 weeks of pit rehearsals and another week's worth of full length shows (3 dress rehearsals and 4 performances) I'm tired. But it was soo much fun! I wish they'd let students play in the pit at interlochen, cuz I would be ON

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I also did the mayazumi on xylophone, but I used a recording of the accompaniment instead of a live pianist.

I did #31 from the Cirone book and one of the Elliot Carter timpani pieces, "Saeta."

And I also did a movement of a Bach violin partita on marimba.

As for recording, it was a nightmare. My teacher lent me his minidisc recorder, and after recording the PERFECT take of the Carter, I realized that the settings it was on made it record over itself, so I lost everything I had the night before the tape was due. So I skipped school and recorded everything all over again. The minidisc recorder sucked and didn't pick up changes in dynamics, so everything I played sounds like its all the same dynamic level. And the general sound quality was pretty bad. But I thought I played them all pretty well, especially the timp and snare pieces. So I really don't know why I didn't get into orchestra, I'm still pissed about that. But I guess there's always hope. They told my friend, Ian, that they had room for him in orchestra the week before camp. And he ended up first chair wyso. So who knows, lol.

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Cool cool... hey yeah that's funny I forgot to add that I did the first movement of Bach's violin concerto as well .... we have similar stuff. For the audition at camp I'm doing this crazy sort of really fast ragtime piece that my teacher gave me that he gave a previous student who got into Indiana by playing only that and just singing 4ths anf 5ths, they didnt make him play anything else so yeah I'm happy bout that. Now it's just the sight reading for the rest :(((
What I'mreally excited for is the percussion ensemble stuff, even if it's kinda intense cause the intermesiate percussion ensemble isnt all that great if you stay for only 1 session. Hey did you by any chance know Jeremy in intermediate percusison? He was there for both sessions. He and I are really close ... just curious...
Ahhhh I'm so excited for camp!