Ugh. I have to make pre-screening tapes this month. I can't think of anything I'd rather do less. But i suppose we all have to go through them if we want to go to graduate school. I wouldn't mind so much, except I can't seem to figure out the bow stroke in the second movement of the Elgar. I can do it for most of the movement, but there are still places that are very inconsistent. Even Mr. Vardi seemed frustrated about it at the last lesson, and I had yet to see him frustrated. At least I then played some ligeti to make him even more frustrated, heh. Apparently I was doing NONE of the tempo instructions (adagio rubato cantabile). And I have a lesson tomorrow, where I'm sure the frustration will continue, since I've accomplished postively jack diddly this week. Ah well, nothing for it but to go to the lesson and deal.
I managed to pick up a gig, which is good, and I agreed to play the cello part to the Beethoven septet on someone's DMA recital, so my schedule is getting a little busier, at least. He still hasn't gotten back to me about the septet, but I hope he still needs me, since I'm itching to do some chamber music. So far the closest I've gotten to that is coaching. My string quartet group is going pretty well, I'd say. The group is responsive, and they seem to get what I'm saying pretty quickly. The cello quartet, however, is driving me crazy. It's taken us 4 coachings just to get through half of a short movement, since one of them just yaks away, and the one with a somewhat complex part hasn't practiced it; I know because when we got to section with some accidentals he had to stop and figure them out. I keep telling these people to look at their parts, but sometimes I think it's hopeless. Honestly, I don't feel qualified to coach this group, but I guess I'm stuck with it now. Nothing to do but press on and try to learn something. I'm just praying we can learn this piece by the concert.
Plans for travleing are finally starting to coalesce. I'll be in New York sometime around December 8th, and hopefully boston by that friday night, although we'll see about that. Will hit Rochester either on the way out or the way back. Speaking of which, that reminds me I need to go write E-Mails to some teachers.
I managed to pick up a gig, which is good, and I agreed to play the cello part to the Beethoven septet on someone's DMA recital, so my schedule is getting a little busier, at least. He still hasn't gotten back to me about the septet, but I hope he still needs me, since I'm itching to do some chamber music. So far the closest I've gotten to that is coaching. My string quartet group is going pretty well, I'd say. The group is responsive, and they seem to get what I'm saying pretty quickly. The cello quartet, however, is driving me crazy. It's taken us 4 coachings just to get through half of a short movement, since one of them just yaks away, and the one with a somewhat complex part hasn't practiced it; I know because when we got to section with some accidentals he had to stop and figure them out. I keep telling these people to look at their parts, but sometimes I think it's hopeless. Honestly, I don't feel qualified to coach this group, but I guess I'm stuck with it now. Nothing to do but press on and try to learn something. I'm just praying we can learn this piece by the concert.
Plans for travleing are finally starting to coalesce. I'll be in New York sometime around December 8th, and hopefully boston by that friday night, although we'll see about that. Will hit Rochester either on the way out or the way back. Speaking of which, that reminds me I need to go write E-Mails to some teachers.
posted by Nabir at 12:43 AM
1 Comments:
omg...I love the Beethoven septet...the cello part is really easy, and then all of the sudden the trio of one of the later movements is sooo hard!
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