Oh, I forgot to mention in my other post, I played in the student recital today and it went really well.  I did the first movement of Mozart's Concerto in G major for Flute and Orchestra (minus the orchestra, alas...).  I've been working on it all summer and I think it came off really well today.  The only problem was right before I played the ( Read more... )

I think my penance for having a really good week of flute practice last week is being a pathetic loser this week.  Seriously, my lesson is tomorrow, and I've only practiced twice, and neither session was particularly productive.  My only hope is to really get something done tomorrow morning (and call my accompanist...I keep forgetting...) so that I ( Read more... )

I played tennis today. I've never really done it before, except hitting balls against the side of the house with my old wooden racket, and even that was years ago. But Shaina and I needed something to do, and Shaina actually knows about tennis, since she played in high school, so we bought some tennis balls and went up to the park this morning to ( Read more... )

Hmmm... I've been rather silent lately, haven't I?  Not that I really have much to say now.  I just thought I should post an entry to show that I haven't abandoned the internet or anything.

I had my first pit orchestra rehearsal for Wizard of Oz today.  It was fun, and the music was somewhat less intimidating with other people playing too.  So far ( Read more... )

I've quite pleased with myself right now.  I just finished composing a two-part invention, a la Bach.  (Except I'm not Bach, so it's kind of pitiful in comparison.)  It was my music theory homework assignment--I'm not so obsessed that just did this for the heck of it--and it was rather easier than I expected. I had originally intended to write it ( Read more... )

  Hmph.  Stupid computer just deleted everything I typed.  Bah.

I made pan-pipes tonight.  It's part of my assignment for Musics of the World... I have to make an instrument from my group's country (Greece) and write a short paper on it.  I thought pan-pipes would be fun, since they're kind of flute-y.  I found some spiffy instructions here: http:// ( Read more... )

I'm really tired.  So I don't know why I'm posting on here.  But I am, so whatever.

I'm taking a world music class right now, and my group is doing a research project about Greece.  We each have to do a paper about an instrument from that culture, as well as build an instrument.  (It doesn't have to play, but it does have to be a good visual ( Read more... )