July 27, 2004 at 5:16 PM

Oh what an amazing last few days I have had. In the wee small hours of the night I have been composing string quartets from dream snippets. Then in the mornings I record the parts (the cello part on viola for now...until school starts and I can get a cello back). This takes a few hours of playing and a few hours of getting the settings and volumes right etc. It is forcing me to learn to read alto clef faster, since it is as stands, a quartet for two violins and two violas. I wish I had a better viola. I am using a school instrument for the summer while no one needs it for strings class. Don't tell anyone I have it. I'm so bad. Anyhow. Then I rest and read or nap or run around like a chicken with my head cut off doing a million things. Then in the evening I practice my regular music, culminating with a performance of something for my husband. He manages to sit through them, even though sometimes most of the time, I play horribly. I get so nervous playing for him because he is so critical. Though he isn't a practicing musician, he knows more about music than I or most of my peers do. I mean, the guy took greuling theory courses at the school of music for FUN. I would call him a musicologist and critic without a degree. ANYhow. It is good for me to scratch away out of tune and shaking and paralyzed with insecurity once a day. Good for the soul. I'm getting better at it. Well. If anyone wants to hear my latest quartet, I have the fugue and the adagio on my website:
http://www.soundclick.com/bands/9/coveandberammusic.htm
Feedback would be great.
jennifer_47336@hotmail.com

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