April 23, 2004 at 7:29 PM

OK.

I beleive that I am due for an entry in which I am not in a bad mood. Today, so far, is looking good. On a non-violinistic note, we finished our pig dissections in biology today, which has been the highlight of my week... almost. Anyway, somehow I managed to retain enough information about the internal organs of a fetal pig to get a perfect score on my lab practical. Horray!

In further news, I have orchestra concerts all this weekend. THANK GOD I declined the offer to go to states, because I really could not have dealt with that right now. I also had a few revelations yesterday during our marathon all-day dress rehearsal:

1. There are not many times that I have contemplated suicide while playing violin. I beleive rehearsing Ravel's Bolero is the only one.
2. Never, under any circumstances, appoint a concertmistress who takes off her shoes and rests her feet on her violin case during rehearsal.
3. Never ever ever tell yourself that you will wait until after rehearsal to eat.
4. Do not play Mozart's Bassoon Concerto.
5. I can't wait for summer and Tanglewood.
6. It is impossible for me to miss a week of lessons and remain sane.
7. Probably some other things but I was in the midst of thinking about my creative writing piece that I also had to write last night. (Its about the creation of music!)

Well. I'm going to have to get off the topic of last night's rehearsal because as you can see it was a tad scarring. I just hope the concerts tonight and tomorrow afternoon and evening go better.

On another note, we performed the trio on wednesday and it was fantastic. Courtney recently bought a new cello and it sounds AMAZING! And we're having so much fun as a group, which obviously is a very good thing. There's still some things to work on, but then again, there will always be more things to think about artisticly speaking. I'm just glad this experience has worked itself out nicely, because the whole ordeal was kind of slapped together last minute. So we'll just see how it works out on May 2nd, which is our first actual concert, all the others have been like free gigs in the halls and whatnot. So I'm really excited.

Prokofiev is going fabulously. Although I think I'm going to need to give it a rest for a year or so because I want to do it for college auditions, and I'm not going to start seriously nailing that rep until like junior year. I'm not really sure what I want to do right now... maybe like Vieuxtemps or something... we shall see. I'm open to suggestions, although I've already done the Mendelssohn, Beethoven, Lalo, Bruch, Mozart(s), and Saint-Saens. Maybe Dvorak or something? I don't know... I'll have to do some more listening. No problems there!

I think thats sufficient for today, and I even left off on a good note!

Elena

April 23, 2004 at 7:29 PM

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