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I am surprised that I have been keeping up with the sunrise yoga at 7-8 every MWF. Maybe later in the semester I might sacrifice one or two of the classes for other time requirements, but I'm hoping to stick with it. Sam - I will try to record more of the classes and see if I can email the files to you... I just need to load the program onto my computer.
For those of you who have never heard Ravel's "Tzigane," you should get on that. ;) There's a massive 4 min violin cadenza in the beginning, but once you get past the boring stuff (joke: none of this piece is boring ^_^) there's a 16 second harp cadenza, which is to be played -- and I quote-- "at lightning speed." No specific tempo marking, just as fast as you can possibly play, if not faster. I really want to be able to do that this spring in the concert... EDIT: btw - the 16 second harp cadenza is written out over 2 pages. Yeah, it's fast.
Quiz in music history today. Fun fact: Hasse was married to Faustina: Italian diva primadonna opera star, who habitually bitchslapped any female singer that got more applause/arias/fame than she did.
Ceramics is progressing, not as far as I would have liked by today, but we'll fix that in class this morning. EDIT: Bugger. after working in ceramics, there was so much water in my fingers that I accidentally rubbed off a few layers of skin on my right forefinger callus. Fortunately it doesn't hurt and I can still play fine. I'll be more careful in the future.
And I found out that beginning Ancient Egyptian Language and Civilization of Ancient Egypt is very likely to be taught next semester. hee hee hee.
For those of you who have never heard Ravel's "Tzigane," you should get on that. ;) There's a massive 4 min violin cadenza in the beginning, but once you get past the boring stuff (joke: none of this piece is boring ^_^) there's a 16 second harp cadenza, which is to be played -- and I quote-- "at lightning speed." No specific tempo marking, just as fast as you can possibly play, if not faster. I really want to be able to do that this spring in the concert... EDIT: btw - the 16 second harp cadenza is written out over 2 pages. Yeah, it's fast.
Quiz in music history today. Fun fact: Hasse was married to Faustina: Italian diva primadonna opera star, who habitually bitchslapped any female singer that got more applause/arias/fame than she did.
Ceramics is progressing, not as far as I would have liked by today, but we'll fix that in class this morning. EDIT: Bugger. after working in ceramics, there was so much water in my fingers that I accidentally rubbed off a few layers of skin on my right forefinger callus. Fortunately it doesn't hurt and I can still play fine. I'll be more careful in the future.
And I found out that beginning Ancient Egyptian Language and Civilization of Ancient Egypt is very likely to be taught next semester. hee hee hee.