school: maiden voyage 1
Namaste. Well, I'm now more than halfway through my first week of school. It's going well. This year just feels like a continuation of last year, just as last year felt like a continuation of my first year. The only difference is a change of where I sleep. But that doesn't really concern me. My classes seem like they'll be nice. I'm taking all music this term (in fact, this whole year (hopefully)), which is a relief. I get to live in that building. I like that. I'm already sick of concert choir, though. I really wish I hadn't gotten myself into all that. Because I would gladly drop it next term and the term after, but I'm too concerned about what that'd do to Fredna; I don't know if she'd ever forgive me. I'm also already sick of band, but since I've been doing it for . . . more than 10 years, I guess I'll stick with it. And, besides, George is there. And since he doesn't have Eric anymore, he'd be really lost without me. Heh. I think I just don't like the music that Cindy picks. But it is usually like this; I hate the music for the first four weeks, and then it grows on me. Hopefully, that'll happen. It's just really tough this term. I'm playing 3rd instead of 4th, and that is a huge difference. See, with horns, the 1st and 3rd parts are practically identical, and they're the two hardest parts. And then 2nd and 4th are similar, and much easier. So I got promoted to practically first horn. And I'm nowhere NEAR that good. *sigh* I hope I improve.
Piano will be nice this year. Alex is already displaying confidence in me. And we talked today about my junior recital. I guess it'll be somewhere during Winter Term, and I've pretty much nailed down what I want to play. He thinks it'll be a tough program, but a good one. I actually chose music that he approves of!!! Sure, they were originally his suggestions, but I picked out these three from among about 20 pieces, and he likes the program. So I'm excited, because I like it too. And it's so much nicer to work with music that one likes. Speaking of which, my voice lessons should be good, again. I'm singing this Copeland song, and although I don't like Copeland, I like this one. It sounds like Gershwin. *lol* Anyway, it's from a collection called (something like) "From a Collection of Poems of Emily Dickenson", which is totally snazzy. And she also wants me to sing one from the cycle of Mahler's Kindertotenlieder. Kindertotenlieder translates as "Dead Children Songs", and Mahler is a notoriously dark composer. The cycle is a set of poems written by a guy who had, like, three of his kids die within months of each other. And Mahler put music to them after his favourite brother committed suicide. So it's pretty heavy stuff, and I've never sung anything like that before.
Well, I'm off to do my conducting reading. I'll talk about my other classes later. ^_^ Shalom.
Piano will be nice this year. Alex is already displaying confidence in me. And we talked today about my junior recital. I guess it'll be somewhere during Winter Term, and I've pretty much nailed down what I want to play. He thinks it'll be a tough program, but a good one. I actually chose music that he approves of!!! Sure, they were originally his suggestions, but I picked out these three from among about 20 pieces, and he likes the program. So I'm excited, because I like it too. And it's so much nicer to work with music that one likes. Speaking of which, my voice lessons should be good, again. I'm singing this Copeland song, and although I don't like Copeland, I like this one. It sounds like Gershwin. *lol* Anyway, it's from a collection called (something like) "From a Collection of Poems of Emily Dickenson", which is totally snazzy. And she also wants me to sing one from the cycle of Mahler's Kindertotenlieder. Kindertotenlieder translates as "Dead Children Songs", and Mahler is a notoriously dark composer. The cycle is a set of poems written by a guy who had, like, three of his kids die within months of each other. And Mahler put music to them after his favourite brother committed suicide. So it's pretty heavy stuff, and I've never sung anything like that before.
Well, I'm off to do my conducting reading. I'll talk about my other classes later. ^_^ Shalom.