We have thousands of human-written stories, discussions, interviews and reviews from today through the past 20+ years. Find them here:

Search the site Search

June 13, 2005 at 4:21 PM

I finally got to see Leila Josefowicz in concert! My mom and I went to see her play Mendelssohn. On the whole it was pretty good--my class went to Dorney park earlier that day and I was sporting a sunburn--but I'm glad we went. We'd never heard her before and I was curious to see her in person, because a couple people have told me I look like her!

Her playing was fantastic, of course, but she was making a lot of funny facial expressions that were rather distracting. She would grimace, then raise her eyebrows and make her mouth into a little o, then look incredibly sad and passionate. These were okay by themselves, but she went through a bunch of them in two measures! My mom said that it was like watching a sped up cloud chart on the weather channel. I hadn't heard the Mendelssohn in a while though, and I really enjoyed it. She was also wearing a really cool dress, so she got points for that.

I got a call from the director of my music school saying I had gotten the scholarship I auditioned for! (I already had it for the orchestra, but I wanted to be in a chamber group so I had to audition again.) And not just any chamber group, but the one I really wanted, a contemporary music one (violin, cello, piano, clarinet). So that turned out well and I will have something to do next year!

So it's final, in the middle of Encore, for a few days me and my mom are going to IRELAND! YES! We're representing the film (the documentary I was in) in the Galway Film Festival. (The director was supposed to go but he's afraid of flying.) But besides the festival we're going site seeing and stuff...I'M SO EXCITED! It'll be the second time I've been out of the country--well, third if you count Canada. YIPEE!

One small other bit of news: I heard that my movie is going to be in the Lincoln Plaza theater across from Lincoln Center in NY starting July 8. I won't be at the opening, though, because I will be in Ireland.

Encore is drawing closer...*bites nails*
--alice

Leila is one of my faves too. Get her ragtime pieces with piano if you can. Congrats on your successes.
Congratulations on all your good news. Please tell us more about the film you're in.