April 2004

April 30, 2004 14:51

yay! I wrote a fan letter to Joshua Bell about a week ago. And today I recieved a reply! I was so happy. I automatically called my friend Caitlin who was mentioned in the letter frequently. We were both ecstatic. Overall, Today was a good day, haha.

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April 28, 2004 14:21

Wow, I haven't updated in a while! Lately my life has been a roller coaster..good one minute..then bad literally the next...then back to good..but I still have the aftermath of the bad..it really sucks. Practice is getting really good. I think I might be ready in time for adjudication. A few performing job offers have come in here and there, most of which I have turned down because of my lack of self confidence and hectic schedule. I have practice all day long, then usually atleast one rehearsal and/or lesson or 2 a day now...I guess it is good to be so busy...but not when everything else in my life sucks...

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April 19, 2004 17:58

I had my violin lesson today, and it went really well. I worked a lot on the concerto, and i am getting a lot better.

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April 13, 2004 19:11

Went to monical...got some new strings and my bow fixed..that was it..practiced a lot..

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April 13, 2004 19:11

Went to monical...got some new strings and my bow fixed..that was it..practiced a lot..

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April 9, 2004 17:50

Last night was the most amazing night of my life...I went to a Joshua Bell concert, and I couldn't believe my ears...I could barely breathe throughout the entire performance. I have no real words that can describe how it was. It was the most amazing performance I have ever seen in my life. His violin was the deepest most beautiful sounding instrument I have ever heard. The concert made me fall in love with the violin a thousand and a half times over. It really made me believe that I might one day have a life in music. I might not be the best right now, or even very good compared to some of the great musicians out there, but one day I will be. I bought this pendant during intermission that reminded me of his violin. I knew I had to have something to remember that glorious night by. I put it on a white gold chain and I will wear it for a very long time, lol.

I couldn't take my eyes off of Joshua Bell. The manipulation of his bow, his amazing vibrato, every bow stroke was like....I dont even have any words left, lol. It was just completely, utterly, amazingly fantastic in every sense of the word. It inspired me, changed my thoughts, my ideas, my plans for the future, basically everything about me was changed because of this performance. I have never had music move me like this.
And so today I picked up my violin with Joshua Bell's performance in mind, and some words of advice from my friend Vernon Kirby who also uses this site, and I played the Mozart violin concert no.4 in D major (the peice I am currently working on but was having trouble with) and I played like I hae never played before...For some reason..I played through the entire peice PERFECTLY, and didn't even realize that I used to have trouble with it till I finished. Then...I decided to take a chance and sight read some concertos for fun and see what else I could do, and I played through a lot of the Tchaikovsky concerto, the Mendhelsohn concerto, and many more that I just randomly picked out and read. Well..I am going to go, I want to practice more, lol. bye bye

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April 5, 2004 10:07

Hi! I got my new bow in today! It is okay, I wasn't totally 100 percent happy with it, but I still really like it. It offers a really deep tone that I like..but for some reason it sounds a little mutes..i dunno, I have only played on it once so far, maybe I need to keep rosining it so I get a better sound. Or maybe I need to get a different kind of hair..hm..I will take it to my luthier hopefully sometime during the week while I get my other bow repaired(grip came loose when I came down and hit a hard note, lol) and when I get new strings...I am thinking about trying the Evah Pirazzi's...I am using obligato's right now, and I think Evah Pirazzi's would be good to jump into.

I have read some of the updated blogs here...and over and over again I hear about colleges...people getting accepted...rejected...not knowing which school to go to...Well...I wish good luck to all of you while you look at schools and decide your future...because as you know, I am looking into some right now, yes...I am a freshman in highschool looking for colleges..but to me it seems too important to procrastinate...

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