September 3, 2004 at 5:30 PM

September 3rd. My gosh! Wowsers! Fall! Yay! I love the weather here now. Just nice and cool. It feels good to be putting a sweater on. Soon all the leaves will start to turn pretty colors and fall on the ground. The smell of fall here is really great. There's a crispness in the air that I just love about here.

Yesterday was a busy day. I went into fairly early in the morning to town to do some shopping and watch a friend of mine compete at the senior's games. I spent the day coming and going from my Grandparent's place. I took my violin along so I could do some practicing, which proved to be at least somewhat productive in between everything else I did yesterday.

In the morning I walked over to see my friend compete at the Senior Games which she did awesome at! Winning all the events I saw her in! She did a wonderful job and it was fun to get to go and watch her. I enjoyed the walk to and from the track where that part of the games was being held at. It was so nice and refreshing, despite the rain.

Another thing I did yesterday. School shopping. That was something new for me. I have never had to go school shopping before as I've been homeschooled since I was just little. I was very pleased with myself. Took me a whole 5 minutes to pick out enough binders, pens, pencils, note pads and granola bars (for my locker) and it all came to under 6 dollars...that's my kind of shopping! Starting school will be interesting. I would be lying to say I'm not just a little nervous. I've had a couple rather bizarre dreams about this whole school thing and sadly I don't think I'll be having that sofa in English class like in my dream....*sigh* I can dream right though?

Beethoven's 5th Symphony. I cannot say enough about that piece other then that the last movement definetly is going to be a challenge. It's actually a pretty fun symphony overall. The second violin part is somewhat melodic in some areas and by no means is it a boring part. It keeps you on your toes in some spots. It's going to be fun to put together with the orchestra next week. The first movement is completely 15 notches above tempo so I'm not too worried about my ability to play that. the second movement is fine and the last two movements are coming along very nicely. When I looked at the score for the first time I was a little confused because I could only see three movements and what looked like the 4th movement, but with no 4th movement tempo heading. When I put the recording on to hear (can you belive I don't actually own a recording of Beethoven's 5th? I just found one on the net) to make sure I wasn't losing it, I noticed that there had been a score edit job done that cut off the tempo of the 4th movement, but the attaca from the 3rd into the 4th movement was there. The other pieces on the program, Rautavaara's Cantus Arcticus and Tchaikovsky's Variation's
and a Roccoco theme aren't too hard. I haven't worked much on the Tchaikovsky but I still have until Wednesday before rehearsals start and the Rautavaara I've worked out all the tricky spots and awkward harmonies in the shifting. It's split up so much too that I won't know the line of some of the divisi stuff that I will be playing until I know which desk/seating number I am. Neat piece though!

In other interesting news. I'll be getting my driver's license at the end of this month or early next month. I've decided to get it pretty soon so I can start on that long one year wait before I can actually drive with other people in the veichle aside from just the over 25 class 5 licensed driver.

I sadly haven't done too much viola playing lately but after next weekends symphony tour I'll dig that out again. I was starting to make some real progress on the Schubert Sonata and Bach Suite. I really like both of those pieces and am having a lot of fun with them. I've been doing a fair amount of harmony work in preparation for my grade 4 harmony exam which is proving to be tedious. Why is it that in the baroque era they didn't like the medeival sound of parallel 5ths? Yet, you can break that rule in certain situations and when there are parallel 5ths and the one in the middle is a diminished 5th as opposed to a perfect 5th that makes it no longer a parallel 5th...*sigh* anyways! I need to make some lunch!

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