ok. it’s been a while, and i’m sorry. thing is, i’m doing this thing called a “master’s degree” and that requires a lot of my time to do things like homework and reed making and practicing and the like.
but right now i’m sitting in a hotel room in los angeles watching a flat-screen HD TV, and relaxing. i went to pittsburgh last weekend for an audition at carnegie-mellon university and am in LA right now for double-duty.
last week, one of the school’s i’m applying to – the colburn school – had its deadline for first-round DVD submission. unfortunately, i had a lot of things go wrong leading up to the due date – i got the flu, and a key fell off my instrument when i was rushing to get the DVD made – and i didn’t get the disc in. cheryl was really encouraging (basically “it’ll be okay”), and it’s nice that the teacher at colburn was her teacher when she got her BM and MM. i had previously scheduled a lesson with mr. beene (the teacher @ colburn) when i found out when my USC audition would be. when this whole DVD thing came up, cheryl wasn’t too worried because we knew i would be playing for him today.
so i had my lesson with him. it was amazing. he’s amazing. he was very complimentary of my playing and how i respond to suggestions. and most importantly, he said that because of my lesson he was going to waive my DVD requirement (he’s also the dean of the school) and invited me to audition in march at their official audition week!!!
tomorrow afternoon is USC day – audition and then a lesson with the prospective teacher. i’m pumped and stoked and happy right now, and hopefully that will translate into my audition and lesson tomorrow. i now know so many more things about the pieces i’m playing (and will have to play for every single audition i’ll ever take in my life). i came in knowing a lot and having a good background with what cheryl’s taught me, but mr. beene just enhanced that and brought out so many more nuances to make it all that much better.
i am going to head on over to trader joe’s now. stock up on the good stuff. since i’m only in LA for today and tomorrow (i got in at 11 this morning and have to be back at the airport at 11 tomorrow night), i have plenty of room in my suitcase. :)
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