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September 10, 2005 at 7:39 PM

Okay.
I'm recovered.
No more freaking out.
After all, I get to wear my solo dress and get free promotion. Nothing to get freaked out over, right? Only three...thousand.......
Okay, who am I kidding.
I'm totally in "solo nervous breakdown mode".
I've practiced my piece *tons*(I have those little black ridges in my fingers) and I've been listening to that DIVINE Kabalevsky concerto...my teacher was thinking along the right path when he pulled THAT out. I can't WAIT to play THAT with an orchestra!!! :-)

I'm going to go practice now.
So I feel more comfortable with the double stops of doom.
They really aren't that bad, but double-stops are my weakness, so I must work them until I could play them perfectly in tune in my sleep.
Those and the hemidemisemiquaver runs. Not that I need to practice them. I just like to do them.
They're kind of a cheap trick, but the inexperienced audience loved em. hehe.

From Sydney Menees
Posted on September 11, 2005 at 3:09 AM

I was like "what's hemidemisemiquaver...oh yeah! They are the Australian form of eighths, sixteenths, thirtyseconds!" Right?

From Natasha Marsalli
Posted on September 12, 2005 at 8:57 PM

A hemidemisemiquaver is a sixty fourth note...it's the English name for it, a quaver being an eighth note. ;-)

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