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So, I guess it is time for a real update on what is going on in my life right now. It feels great to be just a recorder major. I played baroque oboe and recorder today with the baroque orchestra for the opera. It was awesome. The ensemble will be fuller than the one from when we did the Charpentier Messe. I was able to play baroque oboe in tune, cracking very few notes. Even though I only started playing recently, I feel like it is the oboe for me, unlike that modern mechanical monstrosity that I used to be a slave to. In addition, we are playing a Monteverdi instrumental/vocal madrigal, where we get to do divisions. I love it all so much. I believe the performances are on February 13th and 14th at Peabody.
I met up with Michelle and Ayda briefly this evening, after the rehearsal. I hardly ever get to see them because they are so busy at MICA. Michelle gave me a tiny 3 inch recorder (which actually can play a few notes), that she got in Austria this past summer. Unfortunately, as soon as they came, they had to go back to their studios.
I had a great recorder lesson today. I feel like I am now better able to apply my knowledge to my work. I was there for about two hours. We had long conversations about music and the people of the early music world. She said it was good that Dan and Marilyn liked my playing. She wants me to start doing more French music, perhaps de la Barre (French Violin Clef), or Danican-Philidor.
Last weekend, I went with Laura, Rebecca and a new friend of theirs to Philadelphia for the Tempesta di Mare (Gwyn's orchestra) concert, which featured works composed mostly in England. It was the first time I heard Handel's water music played live by a real baroque orchestra. There were great natural horns and trumpets). Laura and Rebecca both thought that the harpsichordist (my continuo teacher) was a hot dyke. I also saw Washington McClain, who was playing oboe. I want to play in a group that rocks like them.
I think that I want to do a recital this year, if not just for the experience of putting one together and marketing it. Of course, I also want to play great music. I'm thinking Castello, Van Eyck, Telemann and Corelli, and maybe a French piece.
I have to play in Wind Anschluss tommorow. Hopefully, if more oboists come to this school, they won't ask me to play as much anymore. Maybe when they find out that I'm no longer majoring in oboe, the same will result (there's much more connection at Peabody with gossip than between the departments). Perhaps they just like my sound and musicianship and don't care. I'm playing first parts next to oboe majors. They should do a wind ensemble piece that has recorder in it (yes, they exist) and have me play the part.
I met up with Michelle and Ayda briefly this evening, after the rehearsal. I hardly ever get to see them because they are so busy at MICA. Michelle gave me a tiny 3 inch recorder (which actually can play a few notes), that she got in Austria this past summer. Unfortunately, as soon as they came, they had to go back to their studios.
I had a great recorder lesson today. I feel like I am now better able to apply my knowledge to my work. I was there for about two hours. We had long conversations about music and the people of the early music world. She said it was good that Dan and Marilyn liked my playing. She wants me to start doing more French music, perhaps de la Barre (French Violin Clef), or Danican-Philidor.
Last weekend, I went with Laura, Rebecca and a new friend of theirs to Philadelphia for the Tempesta di Mare (Gwyn's orchestra) concert, which featured works composed mostly in England. It was the first time I heard Handel's water music played live by a real baroque orchestra. There were great natural horns and trumpets). Laura and Rebecca both thought that the harpsichordist (my continuo teacher) was a hot dyke. I also saw Washington McClain, who was playing oboe. I want to play in a group that rocks like them.
I think that I want to do a recital this year, if not just for the experience of putting one together and marketing it. Of course, I also want to play great music. I'm thinking Castello, Van Eyck, Telemann and Corelli, and maybe a French piece.
I have to play in Wind Anschluss tommorow. Hopefully, if more oboists come to this school, they won't ask me to play as much anymore. Maybe when they find out that I'm no longer majoring in oboe, the same will result (there's much more connection at Peabody with gossip than between the departments). Perhaps they just like my sound and musicianship and don't care. I'm playing first parts next to oboe majors. They should do a wind ensemble piece that has recorder in it (yes, they exist) and have me play the part.