one month until judgement day

mommy came to my concert yesterday! i got to stand up TWO TIMES for my pretty pretty solos! hooray! also, mommy took me to the aquarium. you can look at pictures of me here. thanks katie!! i know it was hard for you to take the time to interrupt mom and find her camera. also, if you're my friend on facebook, you can look at the pictures along with the amazing captions i wrote.
this week my teacher is gone and then next week my pianist is out of town. who needs 'em??

ibert 6
ibert 7
ibert 8

only one more movement to go!

two things

1) why is it that i wore this shirt for TWO DAYS and no one pointed out to me that it still had a sticker on it?? thanks for nothing.

2) i forget. haha.
edit: i bought two jars of peanut butter. upon arriving home and opening the first, i noticed that they both expired in march 2004. thanks, eddie's.

i had a good practice day today! keeping this blog has made me practice approximately 100000 times more than i usually do. apparently my upcoming recital isn't enough incentive.

i did three whole movements! there's the second and third movements of triptych, and also the first movement of "elegie et rondeau" by husa. i cheated a little on the husa by copying and pasting. that's okay.

triptych 2
triptych 3

husa 1

wah! i had to get rid of some of my old clips to make room for these ones. also this is not working. i guess i'm on the honor code for tonight. laterz...

boring weekend

you can tell because it's 8:14 and i'm busy practicing and posting.

today's feature is the first movement of triptych, by ty emerson, a graduate of peabody, who did composition, and also maybe saxophone? anyway, his name is ty emerson. isn't that awesome? clearly this guy should be famous.

triptych 1

i played this at the speed of light, without any rests.

today i also ran through my whole recital, because i need to turn in a sheet with the times of the pieces i'm playing. playing as slowly as humanly possible, my recital is an absolute maximum of 49 minutes. to graduate, i need to perform 50-55 minutes of music. hmm. i'm sensing a tiny conflict here. NO MOM, CLAPPING DOESN'T COUNT!!