May 22, 2004 at 5:09 PM

*Phew.*

Last night I played for my school's prom. They could not have paid me enough to suffer through 4 hours of Pachebel's Cannon in D and Sheep May Safely Graze to an audience consisting of spit-swapping teenage prom-goers. By the end, after my partner and i were finished playing through our entire Bach solo violin repetiores, books upon books of background prom music, and after playing eine kleine nacht musik about 50 times, we reverted to having a "fiddling" contest. First we improvised some gypsy music type stuff, switching between playing the bass line and the melody. Then we decided to play as many violin concertos as we knew behind our head, backs, and between our legs. But even that was not enough. We then decided to add some hoe-down "flava" to many classic favorites... which resulted in a Copland-esque Mendelssohn, a VERY strange sounding Bruch, and a downright square-dance-able Saint-Saens. I'm sure if Bach would have heard what we did with the E major, A minor, and double concertos, he would have been very pleased. Hehe. We didn't try messing with Beethoven, although my attempt at spicing up the Prokofiev was a complete and utter failure. Oh well... I just hope the prom-goers were happy... *cough cough*

Anyway, besides that, nothing entirely significant is happening in my violin world (for once!). As far as I know, all concerts, recitals, competitions, and auditions are over with for the time being. *Huzzah! Huzzah!* Except for one orchestral concert next week, which I'm not particularly stressing over (yet).

So... that's enough for now.

Ciao,
Elena