Fertile Sloth...how timely!
I'll preface this by saying that right now I'm listening to a recording of Philippe Bernold playing the Saint-Saens (which is still insanely gorgeous, though it seems I may have been taking it a little...
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I missed America's Next Top Model tonight because I was modeling. And I don't want to talk about it. But it ruined my night that I missed it. Of course that all stems from my being upset that I didn't...
View ArticleDo I deserve this underwear?
I should like to talk to you today about my favorite pair of underwear, which I happen to be wearing today.It says "imagine", "create", "love" and "inspire" all over it in lettering that looks like...
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Guess what. I practiced.More like played.I'm afraid today's playing was unloggable, since it was more about getting me to remember why I want to do this instead of nitpicking. My teacher (and only...
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That's totally me. Right here. Give me a minute to raise my hands in the air like I just don't care.But I'm a pretty decent practicer, considering how my week went personally. I practiced about 45...
View ArticleApres moi, le deluge. Of vomit.
I just took a shower and spent the whole time saying "13, 22, 17, 19, 16!" because I took my practice notes on my hand with a blue ballpoint pen.Sad face.So today it was 13 minutes of P.E.D. warmups,...
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Only was able to squeeze in about half an hour of practice today, but I had a very fulfilling lesson and flute choir was fun. The half hour was spent entirely on Daphnis, which is coming along for me...
View ArticleQuick! Top Model is on!
12 minutes of long tones/melodies, 16 of Maquarre, 18 of Daphnis et Chloe, and 30 minutes reading Sancan. It's awesome!I promise to blog longer blogs soon! I have a novella to read...and I'm very...
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"The main thing in life is not to be afraid to be human."
-Pablo CasalsIsn't that lovely? I found it on a fashion website, of all places, but when I saw it was a Casals quote I had to post it to this blog.Practicing today was 13 minutes of melodies, 11 of La...
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Log du jour.
Mmm, practicing first thing in the morning. Short, but it still counts.Paul Edmund Davies exercises--12 minutes. Liebermann (FUN!)--30 minutes exactly.Off to New Carlisle in mere hours!Listening to...
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Happy Monday!
I'm exhausted but quite happy. Had the most relaxing weekend. Does playing drums on The Beatles Rock Band count as practicing? It should.I eased back into the week today. 12 minutes of long tones, etc...
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11 minutes of long tones/melodies (something off was going on with my tone today...we'll see...), 19 minutes of Maquarre (getting better, I found a new little thing in the pattern that's helping me out...
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Thoughts on awesome William Kincaid
Non-flutist readers are allowed to skip this.Last week I read Kincaidiana, which I found to be rather...lovey. And adoring. And...eh.However, this week I read his "Notes on Flute Performance", which...
View ArticleBlah thursday
Yesterday was good...11 minutes of long tones and melodies, 22 of Maquarre (it's better now. We're all patched up. I am set with the first two pages now, woohoo). Then 19 minutes of the first half of...
View Articlea very special log du jour.
I practiced before an ensemble concert.I think this is the second time I've ever done that. Ever.Pop the champagne.Here's the log itself:17 minutes of long tones, etc. 28 of Maquarre (I have all the...
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maquarre-22damase-17i'm sick and fried, if you mess with me i'll just walk away and take a nap.
View ArticleWTF MUSIC
Gleaned from Pitchfork:Apparently, George Gershwin's estate has given cray-cray Beach Boy Brian Wilson the right to complete some of Gershwin's unfinished works. The estate is also thinking of...
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A fine day for indie classical...
Both of these tidbits lifted from Nylon, my cultural Bible...Ex-Strokes frontman Julian Casablancas apparently got inspiration from relatively obscure, early 20th-Century Brit composer Benjamin Britten...
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It girl and pompadoured Diddy darling Janelle Monae has declared her favorite time in music as the Baroque age. Huh.
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Andrew WK is awesome.
Tiny Mixtapes tells me that kind of grunge-ish unshowered rocker guy/motivational speaker Andrew WK did a show with a string quartet (the Calder Quartet, I'd never heard of them but I now respect them...
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Here's a list of people performing at the Winter Olympics:Broken Social SceneIron & WineWilcoKronos QuartetThe first two are doing a Neil Young tribute show, so maybe he'll be there too?Stupid old...
View ArticleLe Poisson Rouge!
The cello professor at DePauw, Eric Edberg (see blogroll), just wrote an excellent review of perhaps my favorite venue I've ever been to for both "pop" and "classical" music (I'm going to start...
View ArticleThe Arcade Fire are still so cool.
Exciting news from P4K:The Arcade Fire's bassist/celesta player/keyboardist/guitarist/accordionist Richard Reed Parry (also the leader of side project chamber pop group Bell Orchestre) has written a...
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Antony (of ...and the Johnsons) got hired by Lavazza (the coffee company) to sing "Nessun Dorma".Go listen it on P4k, then cry about the gorgeous.
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Brief thoughts (I promise!) and your daily vitamin WTF.
1. I practiced today, yay! Maquarre and Sancan (which was way better than usual) and Kokopelli, briefly, for 20th-Century Music Lit. Then, after orchestra, a violinist came up to me to compliment me on...
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