March 2005

March 30, 2005 11:00

Last night at rehearsal, we got thank you notes from some of the kids who came to the Music Memories concerts. The letters were so cute! Here are some of my favorites-
~"I liked the instruments because they were shiney"
~"I think the orchestra world sound better if you added a slide guitar"
~"I liked the parts I can remember, but I fell asleep during the show"

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March 24, 2005 08:00

While it probably happens to everyone (sometime), I couldn't help but be irritated when my violin started buzzing... I guess that it was lucky that the orchestras were all on spring break this week...
So anyway, I took my dear violin into the shop, and after about 20 minuets of looking, they couldn't find anything. They told me to try new strings. I did, and the buzzing got worse.
So, I took it back in, and they said they wanted to keep it there so that they could take it apart to find he problem. I'll admit that when they said they were going to take it apart, visions of them ungluing the seems went through my head (those were not pleasant thoughts).
I reluctantly left it there. But I guess I was lucky, cause they found and fixed the problem within 5 hours. Apparently the e string had cut all the way through the nut, so they fixed that somehow. They also put a new (unknown) e string on, I'm not sure how much I like it, but oh well...
Anyway, my violin is now safely back at home.

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March 21, 2005 08:31

Wow, I haven't written here for quite some time.....

To catch up-
Regionals this year was great! We had an amazing conductor. And finally, the orchestra was the best of the three groups (it has always been the worst in this region...)

The high school did a really strange "concert" at the mall... that was really weird!

I went to a Phoenix Symphony concert with one of my friends. It was probably the strangest concerts I have ever been to. The water was off in the building, so the skipped the intermission. And, the conductor was sick, so someone else was conducting, and they did a different program then had been planed...

The high school spring concert went well, except the lighting was somewhat off, so it was hard to see the music. Also, there was one piece where the firsts and seconds switch places. And, the techies had set the seconds' chairs too close, so my stand partner and I kept running into one another.

At the college, we somehow managed to get through our concert, somehow...

Then, we had an open rehearsal at the high school for next year's new students and their families. It sounded so bad!!!!! But it was so much fun! We were mostly sightreading new music. And, at one point our conductor got a phone call and had us just keep playing while he talked to his wife......

At the college, we had a really weird (and somewhat scary) rehearsal. A light on the main stage fell and shattered about half an hour before rehearsal, and if it had fallen during rehearsal, we wouldn't have anymore trumpet players.

Then, at the college, we did the music memory concerts. We played the program 3 times, in less than 3 hours, for 3000 3rd-5th graders. The kids were great (the loved the bassoons and the tuba). It was really fun!

Last week, my lesson was great (if very long).

On Sunday, I got to see the Phoenix Symphony perform the New World Symphony. It was amazing! They did a wonderfull job.

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