concert was AMAZING!!! it was all brahms (who is amazing) - the tragic overture and the german requiem - both beautiful pieces, and today was brahms' 123rd birthday so it was spectacular. our guest conductor, harry davidson from duke, is one of the kindest people (tom is also on that list, of course) and he was an inspiring and dedicated conductor ( Read more... )

benzo and i had a tchaikovsky party yesterday night!!! it was so fun! ben is sheer awesomeness...but he's graduating in like 2 weeks so im sad all the time ( Read more... )

on a different note entirely ( Read more... )

the walk-out today was good (and good food), but it was at 11:45 which meant that we walked out on 5 minutes of class and lunch - ? also, ms. urista let us out at 11:45, which kind of defeated the walking out ( Read more... )

this was like the best weekend EVER ( Read more... )

oh...my...god. today i played ms. meint's 1602 JOHN ROSE JR. ENGLISH GAMBA AT CONSORT!!! I PLAYED AN INSTRUMENT FROM THE 1600s! ISNT THAT AMAZING?!? i almost had a heart attack and was terrified that i was going to kill it and it was worth hella lot of money, i cant even imagine how much and it was out of her collection which far outstrips the ( Read more... )

read-through of brahms 2 was spectacular spectacular. and yay, i get to play it this summer at TMF ( Read more... )

why am i only now finding out how awesome (regular) soymilk is? silly me...

i've had two decidedly odd dreams, although unfortunately both of them were music-related, so im sorry im really trying to find regular stuff to talk about for everyone else ( Read more... )

ah, la folia de españa...gamba is awesome. on that note, im beginning to be able to hear and react to cadences when reading pieces in consort. which is most excellent. but also easy since i've got the bass line which defines it all. and on that note, i love love love playing bass lines ( Read more... )