Not a bad weekend...
Shostakovich went well.
Brahms songs went *really* well.
Slept for 8 hours in a row.
Saw a sappy movie ("A Good Year"-not sure about the Crowe slapstick parts).
Got lost in the Dartmouth Bookstore. Had to leave before I got broke.
Found a cool British book on how to become an orchestral musician.
Becoming an Orchestral Musician: A Guide for Aspiring Professionals
The writer (principal flautist of BBC) mentions a book of Marcel Moyse's. In it he puts his most difficult passages for the flute so that he wouldn't have to carry around many books.
How I Stayed in Shape
I thought that was extremely cool-going to do this.
What would go in my book?
1. Walton first two pages.
2. Bach C minor Prelude
3. Schumann Marchenbilder-Rasch
4. Peer Gynt
5. Mozart 35 last movement
More to come later...
2 comments:
There's a book like this that has all the difficult bits of quartets in it. (Smetana, etc) Marchenbilder-rasch has been my nemesis for about 10 years now...I learned it poorly the first time, so I still fight with it.
There is a really interesting book called "The Artist's Path" or something similar that is part workbook/self-help, etc. It's really interesting.
Glad to hear about the Brahms! Our concert went well, but the conductor, while being a tremendoubly nice guy, was just not very effective.
And I can totally relate to the bookstore..I went to Powell's in Portland not long ago, and purposefully left my credit cards in the car.
Hi Liz...this is Nikki-one of Jen's friends. I too can relate to the bookstore concept-it was a little scary when I had to buy books for school...but I made sure to bring cash, not a card!
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