After listening to Evan wax sentimental about New England, I'm feeling pretty homesick. I wish I was back in Maine or Connecticut! I feel like nobody gets me out here...

Stupid Oregon.

So last night, an underage-but-hot girl came in and tried to buy a 24-pack of PBR. Her plan: flirt with me so that I wouldn't card her. Of course, this is a hot girl who has probably never had to do any flirting herself before; I assume that mostly guys flirt with her while she indulges them. Faced with needing to flirt, she tried to remember ( Read more... )

So I went to the library and checked out scores for the Bruch, Sarasate, and Corigliano's Red Violin Caprices, the piece that Josh Bell whipped off as an encore. What I've learned is that ridiculously virtuosic violin music doesn't always look so virtuosic on the page. For the most part, it looks like you just have to make a bunch of arpeggiated ( Read more... )

So I went to see Joshua Bell play with the Eugene Symphony tonight. It was a lame concert ( Read more... )

This week, my assignment for dancer/composer class was to write a minimalist piece and have it ready to perform for today. I'm pretty impressed with my results, not because writing a minimalist piece is particularly difficult (that's kind of the point), but the fact that I have an .AIF file ready to play using only Finale, Garage Band, and iTunes ( Read more... )

By Lydia VanDreel, my new horn teacher:

"I believe that we all play like our personalities; You're going to have to change your personality if you want to become a good horn player."

Could it be that in order to get his Master's Degree, J. M. Gerraughty must learn to relax and be at peace with the world?!?!

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So my downstairs neighbors were having sex last night. Sex so hard that I could hear them up in my apartment. Sex so hard it was shaking my couch.

*sigh*

So my thesis starts with a movement involving metric modulation, where the orchestra starts at 60bpm and every increases exponentially over time by way of the dotted quarter of one section becoming the quarter of the next. What this means is that if I were to include specific tempi aside from the notation of dotted quarter = quarter, it'd involve ( Read more... )