April 21, 2005 at 12:44 PM

This past week has been really nice out, and I am suffering from spring fever.

So, we decided to buy the Osterud violin from David Bromberg's shop. I'm really excited! This will be my first really good, full-sized (kind of! it's slightly smaller) violin that I own! Also, because it's not quite as expensive as it could be, I can get a nice bow! For the past few months I've been using a carbon fiber, so this will be a nice upgrade! I'm so happy! :-) Today we're going back to the shop to return the other violin and try some bows.

On April 9, there was the premiere of the documentary I'm in, Rittenhouse Square, at the Prince Theater. There was this huge poster of my head in the lobby, it was really crazy! The show was sold out, and the audience seemed to like it. Of course, it was really hard for me to watch myself on screen, especially when it was myself almost two years ago. I didn't play anything really hard, but I guess it sounded pretty good for how old I was then. I don't like how I look, but I guess nobody would! I don't say anything throughout the entire thing except at one part, where I'm playing the first page of the Mendelssohn, and Robert Downey and Max Raab, the director and producer, are watching. The wind starts to blow the pages around, and Bob tries to help by turning back to the right page, but it's the wrong page, so I start shaking my head furiously, still playing, but then he turns forward too many pages, and I keep nodding and shaking my head until the right page is in front of me again! It's actually pretty funny! When I finish, I say, "That's as much as I know...That was fun!" But it doesn't sound like my voice at all, it sounds like someone else, which is strange. Oh well. Afterwards we went to the reception in some art deco gallery, which was strange but interesting, and there were a few women wearing hats with red wire spirals and feathers, who asked me to autograph the poster! It was a really fun night.

And a few days ago, my quartet (with the twins and my sister) played for the Settlement Gala which is to raise money for this head-start program which goes through Settlement. The stage, well actually a podium, was really small, it barely fit out four chairs. So it wasn't quite what we were used to but we managed and played pretty well. Before we performed we spent at least an hour in the bathroom doing changing and doing hair, then reminisced about Kinhaven, which the Tabbys aren't coming back to this year. Even if they did they'd be with Madeline at the Senior Session.

On the 30th is my birthday! I have orchestra and in the evening I'll probably see my friends do their ballet version of the Wizard of Oz.

Recently the kids in my family have become obsessed with the musical Wicked, which is based on a novel I really want to read. Kristin Chenoweth, who we LOVE and know from other musicals played Glinda, the good witch, in it. The plot's really confusing and I can't exactly figure it out just from listening to the CD, which is all we have to go on for now. But it's something like the Wizard of Oz and Dorothy gets mixed in there somehow...it's really unclear though. Anyway, on Thursdays I don't usually go to school, but I was going to this week. However I decided to forgo it in favor of practicing, so I better do that!
--alice

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