January 12, 2006 at 2:03 PM

Hmmmm... blogging is not supposed to be stressful, right? How is it that thoughts flow easily at times and are dammed up at others? Evidently others are experienceing similar conditions. Sometimes I must give myself "permission" not to do something, or I feel guilty. I really must work on NOT taking guilt trips. A trip to the mall, to the next county, to a foreign country perhaps, but NOT to where the guilt is.

Got all the music for our next symphony concert. It will be a children's concert and we are playing Peter and the Wolf, a Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra and a new piece written by a college cellist in our group. The conductor said that "kids need to know that not all composers are dead". Several professional dancers will perform with us-they received a grant of some kind to work out new choreography.

I am working on ricochet and col legno bowings that are in the Brittin piece. It really flies, so I am struggling to keep up. I received Fischer's Basics book for Christmas and am using his practice exercises to improve those techniques. The fugue at the end of the piece sounds like an orchestra free-for-all, so I'm not sure how perfect I will need to be anyway.

From Terez Mertes
Posted on January 12, 2006 at 7:13 PM

I hear you, Donna! My best writing is in my head while I'm driving in the car. By the time I get to the computer and I'm looking at a blank document, everything good is gone. Sigh.

And ditto on the guilt - glad it's not just me!

From Charlie Caldwell
Posted on January 19, 2006 at 11:31 PM

Thanks for the comment on GHP. Wow, good luck with ricochet. I have a hard time doing string crossings with ricochet. I've only had to use it a few times before. High School orchestra isn't that demanding. A children's concert sounds like a lot of fun. What orchestra do you play in?

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