"Fancy-oli"

Did I mention my school purchase two Fazioli pianos? One is residing in our recital hall and the other in the concert hall and these past two weeks were the first time I experienced the Fazioli. I'm not a piano expert, but it's a nice looking piano. My father said it didn't sound like a 250,000 dollar piano but it looked nice.

I'm taking a break from my homework. I can finally return to my usual academic routine of coming home at night and actually doing my homework before 11 PM. I'm feeling out of sorts though as I just spent two weeks preparing for a concert. I believe it went well, but I can't say much on the concert because I was feeling weird...or I was trying to stay calm and I had a little sideline help. It was a huge difference playing a major influence on my musical life.

Secondary functions in chords are boggling my mind. We are closing up the Baroque era in Major Composers...and you know you are a music geek when you drive home talking about Baroque music. The purchase of a cheap keyboard is actually improving my singing of intervals and I've manage to secure a few notes in my head (that came in handy as my trumpet section mate and I tried to hum the opening "F" to the Beethoven Piano Concerto).

I've spent so much time bitching and complaining about jazz because I was insecure. I ran to others to be united in how I thought I was being treated unfairly...but in reality I was just too stubborn to suck it up and just do the work. I actually did the work and I believe the light shined and I have figure out some way to get a decent improvised solo out of my horn. I need more work on my intervals and hearing it in my head (it all comes down to intervals and subdiving), to produce a more complex solo.

After playing jazz an hour before the main orchestra concert to the mahler...was hard...mainly because of this


I have been performing on Laskey mouthpieces for the past month and I'm considering buying a mouthpiece (I am currently borrowing the piece from my trumpet teacher). It's a nice sound and I may just make the leap and purchase a flugel piece as well. I miss playing the flugel. I may do some later but I have a midterm in English tomorrow on stories that I don't remember.

What now?

I guess after year of looking at music and books took a toll on my eyes because I now done some nifty reading glasses! I have never seen my music or words from books so clear in my life as I can remember it. I even get less headaches from reading and studying (ok maybe not studying but reading definately a huge improvement there!).

The weeks are nearing to a huge build up at school...the first orchestra concert in the brand new Concert Hall. I'm nervous as heck but excited that I will be able to play in such an event at my school. We're doing an interesting program that includes Mahler's "Titan" Symphony.

Working with a group of musicians this vast is a almost a new experience for me. I'm going to be performing on stage with a diverse group of musicians ranging from non majors to professionals. It's not everyday that you get to do such a thing, and I'm not going to let my fear of the stage affect me this time. Oh no. I'm actually learning ways to deal with my intensive fear (and unfortunately I believe it does not involve some sexy wiccan lesbian magic)


(do you know how hard it was to find some with those two and magic without Tara getting shot???)

Well...where was I?

Right so I'm learning some voodoo magic powers to cure myself...but not really.

I will be thrown into a 2 week frenzy of rehearsals, late nights with no satisfaction (unless...it looks like this:


Ending with hopefully a grand concert...