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~stephen

Hello!  I am still alive.  Music school is fun!  Lalalalala.  I'm going to go practice!

I've found a piece of music that I finally feel comfortable describing as my overall favorite piece of music.  I've been hesitant to name one before, but I've found a winner: Beethoven's Ninth Symphony.

This thing rocks in so many ways.

From Wikipedia, on Hector Berlioz ( Read more... )

I've written a college essay and an Anthropology essay in the past week about a chimp named Washoe who could talk in American Sign Language. She just died yesterday night... it's kind of weird... it feels like someone I knew died.

http://jeffsweb.net/scheduler/show_schedule.php?student_id=792

btw i've been back from nhsmi for like 3 weeks. it was cool.

Hey guys! I'm going to be at the National High School Music Institute this summer for five weeks (starting today!). It's going to be a lot of fun, and I'm pretty excited - but I want to keep in touch with you guys. Here's what you should do. Send me a letter! Getting letters is nice. Send them to ( Read more... )

So I leave for Northwestern next Saturday. I except you all to send me letters (I'll post my address here) and keep in touch. I'll only be gone for five weeks, but it'll be the longest I've been away from home :-P ( Read more... )

I thought Christian Lindberg playing "Flight of the Bumblebee" on the trombone was ridiculous. Lindberg playing "Winter" from Vivaldi's Four Seasons makes my head explode. On the other hand, (and maybe it's the recording), his sound isn't the greatest during it. Whatever, he recorded it almost twenty years ago :-P ( Read more... )