This week has been insane, but in a good way! I really need to update about it all, but need to get over to school to practice right now ( Read more... )

Meme O'clock
Picture Meme
- go to Google Images
- search for your answer
- pick one image from the first page
- insert lj cut so as not to clutter up friends' friend pages
- post

( Image survey! )

( Birthday Party pictures! )

How nice is it that the weekend of my birthday is a 3 day weekend?! As expected I celebrated heavily on Friday night following our concert. A quick word about the concert: On Thursday I was freaking out because the Martinu sextet I was playing on, was still a mess when we had our dress. We had to stop multiple times because we couldn't get ( Read more... )

Can I take a moment to appreciate the weather here? I like that I check the weather forecast only to see if it will be hot or warm. Some of my friends back east have been telling me that it's getting cold, down into the 40s. Here, I decided to wear a skirt today and a light sweater and I ended up sweating on my walk over to school because it's ( Read more... )

Yesterday when I talked to J Greg, he was saying that what made a good performer is how fast they can recover. So, although I was really upset yesterday, I managed to get myself back to the music school and practice another couple of hours (making a total of about 4.5 with the performance), and those hours were productive and tear-free. Today I ( Read more... )

So I performed in master class today... I was feeling pretty good about my progress with the piece. Last Friday when I had a lesson my teacher assured me that I'd be fine in master class and that it was sounding great. I started to believe it around Saturday afternoon after some more positive practice. Devin wasn't feeling too great on the piano ( Read more... )

Damn, I really need to make a real update, but there's no time!

I currently have a few reasons to be very excited that I must share:

1. On Friday, I will be the proud owner of a new Buffet R-13 clarinet (silver plated keys... fancy2. My mom is coming to town for the weekend ( Read more... )

1. Good reed days. If I have a good reed to play on, I enjoy hearing myself play, and if I enjoy what I'm hearing, I feel good about myself and my potential ( Read more... )

I'm having trouble getting going this morning. *sigh* Also I'm not looking forward to when I first play my instrument today... my lip is really swollen and hurts pretty bad. I think I bite too much when I play and it's compromising my endurance. I'm trying to lighten up, but to get to the level of focus I like in my sound, my embouchure has to ( Read more... )