January 30, 2005 at 3:06 PM

I'm so excited! On Friday I found out I'm in the finals of the big competition!!! Just the Children's Division, but it's really cool nonetheless. My teacher is giving me a regimen of technical stuff and new ways to practice the piece for two weeks, until the finals, which will be great because I was getting a little weary doing the same stuff every day. I'm really happy, but also kind of dreading it, because I get pretty nervous. But I'm really happy! The two other finalists are pianists, and I haven't heard of either of them (hope they don't go to Curtis!) But I'm just going to focus on my own stuff and hope for the best! I'll be playing the first mvt. of the Viexutemps 4.
Also, on Friday I found out I'm going to be in my school's annual musical! It's going to be Annie. Because I am a violinist, I am one of the only people in my school who's not tone deaf. So people have been telling me to audition for Annie, but I'd really like to be Miss Hannigan (heheheh). Also a bunch of my friends are in it too, so it will be really fun.
This year for summer camps I applied to Encore (which sounds great but I don't especially want to go to Ohio for 6 weeks). I also applied to Itzhak Perlman's camp (the Perlman Music Program) in Long Island, which sounds like heaven on earth. It's based off of Kinhaven, the camp where I had some of my best summers ever.
I had a really busy day yesterday; we left the house at 8:30 to go to my youngest sister's quartet rehearsal. Then we went to Abington Friends School to perform with my quartet (sister Madeline, and our friends Sabrina and Genevieve Tabby, which we met via Kinhaven and a youth orchestra). We performed one of my favorite ever compositions, excerpts from A Short Set for String Quartet by Gweneth Walker, an American composer. It was also a ballet performance, we played and some dancers were choreographed to us. Then we went over to our orchestra rehearsal at Settlement, which we had missed half of (yikes, hope my conductor is not too mad). Then we rushed over to Temple for Madeline's voice recital in which she sang beautifully, as always.
Right now I'm sitting in my pajamas but I have to get dressed and start practicing! Have a Japanese lesson later today, too.
It snowed again last night! Calla and I have to continue construction on our back yard tobbogan run.
--Alice

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January 30, 2005 at 3:06 PM

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