December 7, 2004 at 3:06 PM

Concert on sunday - the stress is getting to me. I keep having dreams that something will go wrong - I forget to go to a rehearsal, or (the worst one so far) I break my arm. I'm sure everything will be ok though.

I had a rehearsal with my accompanist today, it went well. I was suprised how well the suk went as the last rehearsal was so bad. Luckily i wasn't playing it for that exam, so I could just hear how it goes. This time however, it went much better, should be fine for the concert.

I also got to hear for the first time my composition played live. It was an exhilerating experience. I wonder if Mozart or Beethoven felt like that when their first pieces were performed, or when any piece was performed for the first time.

My composition is titled "Una Principessa" and is written for Violin and Bassoon, accompanied by Piano. It sounds really lovely. It was my first real jaunt into modulating into different keys, and also my first attempt at piano accompaniment. I asked the accompanist to give me some feedback on how it was, and she said it was fine because it was a slow piece, only a couple of things she might change due to the bass line going into a muddy area, which really wasn't in the character of the piece.

Also had a lesson with my teacher - we cleaned up a bit of the Suk that needed doing, and talked about pieces for the next year. I convinced him that since I did two pieces of grade 8 AMEB this year, that next year I should sit my AMus. I'll do the Mozart Concerto No. 4 (Mvmt 1 and 2), the final two movements from the Bach Sonata in C, I can keep my Suk Appassionato, and I will do a Sonata by either Brahms, Elgar or Schumann. I'm going to get some CD's of them so that I can listen and decide which one i like better.

Onto good news, and I've finally found a Violin Stand. I've been looking for one to hold my acoustic-electric when I'm performing (mainly at church), and I ordered one around Christmas last year from a music store in my city. Around August this year it still hadn't come in, despite my repeated badgering of them, so I eventually called it quits and told them in the harshest way i could (which is actually fairly nice compared to what my mum can do, i'll never forget my 10th birthday) that i was not happy with their performance. I shopped around because I wanted one especially for this performance i was doing in October, one store quoted me $99.00 for one, I thought "I could order one in cheaper than that."
I was in a music store today looking at some music books while my girlfriend was handing resume's around (She's looking for a job, preferably in a music store). I noticed they had some displaying their violins, so I asked if they were for sale, they were, so I quickly checked my bank balence, and bought a violin stand for $22.00

Go Me!

In other news, I was accepted into the Philharmonic again... I don't know what I need to do to get into the Senior WAYO... Perhaps getting my AMus will show them. My girlfriend got Principal Basson of the Philharmonic, so she's really happy.

Well, I think that's about it. That basically all happened today, so you could say it's been a busy day.

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