tl;dr aaaaaahahahaha: a list
Aug. 14th, 2009 02:54 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sigmastolen1. OMG MOSQUITO BITES ON MY HAND. OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG. OMG. Today I scraped the bites while lifting my bag and OMG THEY ITCHED LIKE MOTHERFUCKERS.
2. One might think, given how much I enjoy repetitive tasks at work (I just finished taping numbered tabs into the CD cabinets, every 50 discs. We have over 20,000 CDs. That is more than 400 tabs) (also shelving, labelling new books and CDs, checking in big stacks of things), that I should be more enthusiastic about practising.
One would be wrong.
And so, Things I Need To Practise
- Mozart bassoon concerto: I. exposition, II. exposition
- Stravinsky Pulcinella: Gavotte excerpt
- Berlioz Symphony Fantastique: Witches' Sabbath excerpts (!!!), March to the Scaffold soli (for breath control, yo), In the Country excerpts (omg rhythms)
- Rimsky-Korsakov Scheherazade: II. solo (for expression), cadenzas (because my fingers don't remember in what order to move oops)
- Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 6: I. opening (moar breath control. gahhhh), other part (omg rhythms)
- Beethoven violin concerto: excerpts from II and III -- correct tempi
- Beethoven Symphony No. 4: That One Part, because damn it, I said I would learn it this summer
(- and everything also for RIGHT NOTES um.)
I also need to get my ass in gear on the reedmaking front. Oops.
3. Do I even bother auditioning for orchestra on contrabassoon? I'm still the only one who plays it, probably, unless the new master's student does. (The contra excerpts are from Brahms Symphony No. 1 and Strauss Death and Transfiguration)
4. I was supposed to research grad schools this summer, too, to find out what I want to do next year. I guess I'd better get on that, yeah? Right now, my head is filled with notions of Chicago being a good city to live in (I could play with cousin Hedda's new baby AAAALLLLLL the TIIIIIIME and learn how to use public transportation through the El and find out what it's like to live somewhere with COLD and ICE and SNOW and HARASS C. because he is about to start his MM there too), which means I should get info on UChicago & Northwestern & Roosevelt, I guess.
I don't even know where to look for info on music schools in Germany and/or Austria (and do I want to have a German or Austrian sound? I don't know). I should also update what I know of Carnegie Mellon and Rice (although, having taken a lesson with him, I'm not sure Kamins would be the best teacher for me -- too much like Charlie, which is not unexpected since they're both Herzberg students), and find things out about schools in NY and such.
Pretty much the only thing I know for sure is that I need to leave California, for my own personal growth, since I have lived in LA County for all but four years of my life and it's like being inside a bubble, you know?
5. One more thing I Need To Do: enroll in classes. So that I can know what my schedule will be. Because my boss wants to know whether I'll be able to work during the library's New And Improved! (read: drastically slashed) hours.
6. I KNOW YOU CARE ABOUT MY KITCHEN NEUROSES ALMOST AS MUCH AS YOU CARE ABOUT MY SHOES!!!!!111!1
Today Flatmate came home from work, randomly, at around 11 am. In an effort to delay going back to work, she announced, "I think I'll clean the kitchen!!" as though I was supposed to congratulate her or something. I replied, blandly, "That would be fabulous." So the canned food is put away and the cutting board is washed and the trash that was in the sink is now in the bin as it should be and she even ran the damn disposal... you know, after the better part of a week. It makes me want to tear out my hair, just a little. (Obvs I shan't because that would spoil Cute Haircut.)
7. They are repainting the practise rooms. I am so glad I am practising at my apartment lately. (I almost want to take the contrabassoon home to practise it... but that's a terrible terrible idea, because (a)I don't have space for the contra in my house and (b)I'm really not supposed to be taking it off campus. Which is actually another strike against learning the contra excerpts for the orchestra auditions.)
8. OMG THE WOMAN WITH THE KITTENS CALLED ME BACK. I NEED TO CALL HER AGAIN SO WE CAN SCHEDULE A KITTEN PICK-UP DATE. OMG KITTENS. I WILL KEEP YOU UPDATED.
9. Oh, so remember that ear infection I had TWO MONTHS AGO? It plagues me still! >:( WTF EAR WTF
2. One might think, given how much I enjoy repetitive tasks at work (I just finished taping numbered tabs into the CD cabinets, every 50 discs. We have over 20,000 CDs. That is more than 400 tabs) (also shelving, labelling new books and CDs, checking in big stacks of things), that I should be more enthusiastic about practising.
One would be wrong.
And so, Things I Need To Practise
- Mozart bassoon concerto: I. exposition, II. exposition
- Stravinsky Pulcinella: Gavotte excerpt
- Berlioz Symphony Fantastique: Witches' Sabbath excerpts (!!!), March to the Scaffold soli (for breath control, yo), In the Country excerpts (omg rhythms)
- Rimsky-Korsakov Scheherazade: II. solo (for expression), cadenzas (because my fingers don't remember in what order to move oops)
- Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 6: I. opening (moar breath control. gahhhh), other part (omg rhythms)
- Beethoven violin concerto: excerpts from II and III -- correct tempi
- Beethoven Symphony No. 4: That One Part, because damn it, I said I would learn it this summer
(- and everything also for RIGHT NOTES um.)
I also need to get my ass in gear on the reedmaking front. Oops.
3. Do I even bother auditioning for orchestra on contrabassoon? I'm still the only one who plays it, probably, unless the new master's student does. (The contra excerpts are from Brahms Symphony No. 1 and Strauss Death and Transfiguration)
4. I was supposed to research grad schools this summer, too, to find out what I want to do next year. I guess I'd better get on that, yeah? Right now, my head is filled with notions of Chicago being a good city to live in (I could play with cousin Hedda's new baby AAAALLLLLL the TIIIIIIME and learn how to use public transportation through the El and find out what it's like to live somewhere with COLD and ICE and SNOW and HARASS C. because he is about to start his MM there too), which means I should get info on UChicago & Northwestern & Roosevelt, I guess.
I don't even know where to look for info on music schools in Germany and/or Austria (and do I want to have a German or Austrian sound? I don't know). I should also update what I know of Carnegie Mellon and Rice (although, having taken a lesson with him, I'm not sure Kamins would be the best teacher for me -- too much like Charlie, which is not unexpected since they're both Herzberg students), and find things out about schools in NY and such.
Pretty much the only thing I know for sure is that I need to leave California, for my own personal growth, since I have lived in LA County for all but four years of my life and it's like being inside a bubble, you know?
5. One more thing I Need To Do: enroll in classes. So that I can know what my schedule will be. Because my boss wants to know whether I'll be able to work during the library's New And Improved! (read: drastically slashed) hours.
6. I KNOW YOU CARE ABOUT MY KITCHEN NEUROSES ALMOST AS MUCH AS YOU CARE ABOUT MY SHOES!!!!!111!1
Today Flatmate came home from work, randomly, at around 11 am. In an effort to delay going back to work, she announced, "I think I'll clean the kitchen!!" as though I was supposed to congratulate her or something. I replied, blandly, "That would be fabulous." So the canned food is put away and the cutting board is washed and the trash that was in the sink is now in the bin as it should be and she even ran the damn disposal... you know, after the better part of a week. It makes me want to tear out my hair, just a little. (Obvs I shan't because that would spoil Cute Haircut.)
7. They are repainting the practise rooms. I am so glad I am practising at my apartment lately. (I almost want to take the contrabassoon home to practise it... but that's a terrible terrible idea, because (a)I don't have space for the contra in my house and (b)I'm really not supposed to be taking it off campus. Which is actually another strike against learning the contra excerpts for the orchestra auditions.)
8. OMG THE WOMAN WITH THE KITTENS CALLED ME BACK. I NEED TO CALL HER AGAIN SO WE CAN SCHEDULE A KITTEN PICK-UP DATE. OMG KITTENS. I WILL KEEP YOU UPDATED.
9. Oh, so remember that ear infection I had TWO MONTHS AGO? It plagues me still! >:( WTF EAR WTF
