September 24, 2004 at 6:37 PM

Practicing. It's amazing how much harder I focus when I am at school and when I practice I know that I don't have several hours at my disposal to "get around" to practicing. I have a new set of repertoire picked out for my grade 10 exam. The past year and a half I have spent ploughing through repertoire from the grade 10 and ARCT lists, which has been great, I've been stretched and really have improved my playing a lot between all the repertoire I've covered and playing in the symphony and having those programs to focus on learning for short periods of time. My new repertoire for the exam that is officiall decided on is as follows:
Barber violin concerto (1st and 2nd mvt.)
Beethoven Sonata No. 8
Robinovitch, Adieu Babylon (with Vitali Ciaccona or the Eckhardt-Gramatte Caprice as a back up should I not be able to memorise it in time)
Bach C major solo sonata, Largo
Tchaikovsky 4 symphony excerpts
Prokofieff Romeo and Juilliete Suite excerpts
I'll pick an etude later
then there is sightreading, ear training and almost every technical thing in the book. *jumps for joy* (not)

I'm looking forward to the recital part of the exam, which I always enjoy doing. It is a bit intimidating with an examiner sitting there writing the whole time, but I like being able to just play through a program like that, it makes it feel like a concert, even if the only audience is the person with the scores and pen and paper in front of him or her.

School has been an interesting experience. I'm starting to catch onto some of the German stuff more, the entire last class was spent on "das, die, der" and what forms of it you use, when and how to know which is the appropiate one to use. My English AP class is really really awesome! It's a class that is never boring or dull. It's a challenge and has us all thinking a lot. The class is full of humour and I have yet to have not laughed a significant amount while in that class. We have AP word quizzes almost every class, which have been a huge challenge for me, especially having never been in the school setting before this year, so my first few quizzes were pretty sad, but the last two felt a lot better, and the marks are getting better. I was hoping that we'd have to give examples of Euphemism on yesterdays quiz, and we did, so I used "spontaneous energetic disassembly = explosion" I thought it was a good one to use. It's a great class though, we discuss a lot of really intriuging topics and have to do a lot of thinking about how certain things stand out to us and be able to put it into words on paper.

Back to practicing now....

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