oh wow. chamber did an amazing job on beethoven 7 (in severance hall, which i am in love with ( Read more... )

OMG OUR NEW GUEST CONDUCTOR (with whom we are doing an all brahms program - german requiem and tragic oveture) IS GOING TO READ THROUGH ALL THE BRAHMS SYMPHONIES WITH US SO WE CAN GET THE FEEL FOR BRAHMS!!! omgomgomg i love him! so excited! and he's giving us next friday off instead of sectionals...can this get any better?

i love brahms.

today was like 70 degrees and gorgeous. oh so lovely outside. i wish i could just lie on a blanket in south bowl or just outside like EVERYONE else was doing today, but alas, no time. ive gotten maybe 15 hours of sleep since saturday morning. maybe.

***zoe told john mckean that i was her project. yay! (i.e. she has big plans for me in historical ( Read more... )

woot new record: 4 pages in 1.5 hours (spanish essay, due today at 6 pm). of course, i am just finishing now at 3 am, because i was practicing literally all day. literally. i practiced the first half of the gigue (like 4 lines) for 3.5 hours today. i didnt even get through the whole half. i think something's wrong with me. we'll see how it ends up ( Read more... )

i was talking to laura and realized that my mood is very affected by things in general, but more and more, music-related things. for example, my last post was me after a bad lesson. thursday after a good rehearsal, a good gamba lesson, and a bunch of practicing i felt really positive. stuff like that. its really bad though, because i can't ( Read more... )

hehe im indirectly referenced 3 times in the viola da gamba society of america's monthly news: 1. because bill pannill was talking about the houston gamba group, 2. because cathy meints mentioned this semester's consort, and 3. because cathy meints mentioned the 8 students in zoe's classes this semester (of which i am one, of course...actually i'm ( Read more... )

tmf it is ( Read more... )

oh, king kong is officially the second hottest movie star (after denzel ( Read more... )

so my summer music situation is looking dire as brevard wait lists me and i wait in anguish to hear from roundtop, who decides whether i get 6 weeks in a serious musical environment or whether i will end up at TMF again. well. if i go to TMF i'm going to ask alan austin if i can take the 3rd week off and go to one week of the baroque performance ( Read more... )

so its cold again. fucking oberlin ( Read more... )