Ok, so it's been a while!! I feel bad, but it has been so busy, and when you are working and doing things all the time away from your computer it is really hard to post. Doesn't mean I couldn't have at all, the only time I could was going to bed and then I would never really feel like it, since I had to get up at 4:30am to go to work every day. But now that is over!!!!
I am now in Dekalb, IL about to start at Northern Illinois for my masters. Weird huh. I think it is anyway. Lots has been going on that I have to tell you about! Especially the last couple of weeks....
Ok first, we went on vacation the week before last. It was a blast!! We went to Colorado for a week and played around outside. First we went hiking up in the mountains, then we went on a 3-day white water rafting trip. There were 10 of us total, with 3 guides. At night we would camp out close to the water. The guides cooked for us and we might as well have eaten like a cruise ship for meals. The first night we had steak and potatos, pancake and bacon breakfast, amazing fresh sandwhich fare, and the second night BBQ chicken and corn on the cob, cooked over the coals with the husks on and everything so you had to peel and eat. It was all soo good! We also did some rockclimbing and rapelling while we were out there too. I was sad when the 3 days were over. The rafting started out with a couple 3class rapids. The second day we progressed to 4 class rapids in the morning, then after lunch we got on some inflatable kayaks called duckies and did some class 3 rapids in them, then just played around in the waves the rest of the time until camping. I love kayaking...out of everything we did, whitewater kayaking is probably my favorite thing. The 3rd day we did class 5 (that's the most intense rapids). After rappelling from the campsite to the water, we did some class 4 and then got out to scout out the class 5 before we actually did it, and out guide pointed out things like where we should go if we got thrown out and where we were supposed to be and safety stuff. Also we scouted out our path through the rapids and what we should do if we got off course. Then we went down it.....sooooo fun!!!! We were all soaked but none of us fell out. After the class 5 we went into Triple Drop which was a really fun class 4 and then into a series of rapids called Numbers...9 in all back to back, a combination of class 3 and 4. The last meal we had was the best fajitas I have ever had. Amazing the food you can cook over coals or a camp grill (all the other meals were over hot coals and fire grid).
On Friday we did a cattle drive. We were on horses and herding cows and everything. It was so much fun, and we drove them from one end of the property to the other, which was around 10,000 acres total. I don't know how many acres we drove them, but we were herding for 3 hours. It felt so good to back on top of a horse. I never heard more cows mooing than we did at one time either. On Saturday we spent the morning at Royal Gorge, with the longest suspension bridge in the world. Very cool. We got to see some native animals such as bison (a white one too), big horn sheep, and elk, which make this really high pitch keening noise that you think is from a bird at first. I also learned how to throw a tomahawk. I landed 3 on the wood target!
So that is my vacation. I have to get ready for church now, first time in this area, but I'll be sure to post some more later!
Sunday, August 23, 2009
Saturday, June 13, 2009
Last day of Hot Springs Music Festival
I just heard back on my car. I'm not sure all the details, but basically the verdict is my car is undriveable more than 15 feet at the moment. From what I understand, it overheated, leaking water and motor fluid (you guys can correct me if I'm naming the wrong things), which did something to one of the cylinders. Not quite sure yet if it is worth replacing yet or not, it will depend on what all in there needs to be replaced or not. I'm kicking myself becuase all this is something that could have been prevented days ago. Not just that, but could have prevented even if I didn't drive home the night it broke down on the road. Again, life lesson: check your gauges regularly!! (and take it immediately if it's making funky sounds. That too.)
So Dad is driving up with a flatbed trailer to pull it home, since they can't fix it in time for when we need to leave.
Dang it!!
Anyway, today is the last day of the festival. I'm kinda sad...it went by too quickly. All the concerts were good, but I'm not sure yet if I'm going to get any cd's...if I do it will be of the Potpourri concert, the one where the apprentices bring their own music and put together chamber pieces themselves and then audition them in to play in the concert. I didn't play in it this year. There was a quartet arrangement of some pieces from the opera Carmen that my mentor brought, but we could never get it together in time. I also got to play Hans Strauss's Nocturne for french horn and piano that my friend Doug the tuba player brought to try out on tuba and harp. It was really cool, and really pretty, and we got to discuss different ways of rearranging it with both our mentors.
The opera theatre production of Carmen was sooooo good. It was adapted from the original to a much smaller chamber orchestra, down to only the main cast (no chorus), and ran without intermission for a total of 1 hour and 20 min, roughly. And it was transcribed to english. If you know anything about Bizet's Carmen, there was no fluff in this one...just the nitty-gritty emotional story that is Carmen. It was really intense, and so good! The singers were absolutely fantastic...and the set was built by my mentor's husband (who runs all the setup stuff at the festival) on very little budget and mostly stuff laying around....and it looked so good! The stage was set up like an arena, bales of hay outlined a small circular stage on the feildhouse floor.
So, I'm officially done playing harp. I don't play on tonight's orchestra concert, but I do get to play with the percussion section. Yep you read right. It is a piece that allows anyone to participate in. So there are a lot of us, who aren't playing on the piece, that are doing various percussion instruments as a group...and you don't really have to read the music either, you just watch and do you're rhythm. There is some african drums, tom-toms, clave (which is hard wooden sticks banging together), whistles, cowbell, and clapping hands. I get to play the maracas. WOOHOOO!! It's really fun.
Here are some pics from the festival. This first one is of that fried banana cheesecake thing I told you about. It was sooooo good....
So Dad is driving up with a flatbed trailer to pull it home, since they can't fix it in time for when we need to leave.
Dang it!!
Anyway, today is the last day of the festival. I'm kinda sad...it went by too quickly. All the concerts were good, but I'm not sure yet if I'm going to get any cd's...if I do it will be of the Potpourri concert, the one where the apprentices bring their own music and put together chamber pieces themselves and then audition them in to play in the concert. I didn't play in it this year. There was a quartet arrangement of some pieces from the opera Carmen that my mentor brought, but we could never get it together in time. I also got to play Hans Strauss's Nocturne for french horn and piano that my friend Doug the tuba player brought to try out on tuba and harp. It was really cool, and really pretty, and we got to discuss different ways of rearranging it with both our mentors.
The opera theatre production of Carmen was sooooo good. It was adapted from the original to a much smaller chamber orchestra, down to only the main cast (no chorus), and ran without intermission for a total of 1 hour and 20 min, roughly. And it was transcribed to english. If you know anything about Bizet's Carmen, there was no fluff in this one...just the nitty-gritty emotional story that is Carmen. It was really intense, and so good! The singers were absolutely fantastic...and the set was built by my mentor's husband (who runs all the setup stuff at the festival) on very little budget and mostly stuff laying around....and it looked so good! The stage was set up like an arena, bales of hay outlined a small circular stage on the feildhouse floor.
So, I'm officially done playing harp. I don't play on tonight's orchestra concert, but I do get to play with the percussion section. Yep you read right. It is a piece that allows anyone to participate in. So there are a lot of us, who aren't playing on the piece, that are doing various percussion instruments as a group...and you don't really have to read the music either, you just watch and do you're rhythm. There is some african drums, tom-toms, clave (which is hard wooden sticks banging together), whistles, cowbell, and clapping hands. I get to play the maracas. WOOHOOO!! It's really fun.
Here are some pics from the festival. This first one is of that fried banana cheesecake thing I told you about. It was sooooo good....
This is a brass quintet jamming songs from West side story at the Brauhouse patio:
Here is a pic of a fountain walking along the sidewalk, and of the Quapaw bath and spa, one of the historic bathhouses on bathhouse row (now remodeled and working) here in historic district of Hot Springs:
Oh, and Stephanie, just so you know I met you're stunt double.......:o)
Thursday, June 11, 2009
car trouble
OK..........yeah.
My car broke down. On the road. While I was driving it. Yep.
It had been running fine...or so I had thought. Then it started making funny noises. Then it just died on me last night. Couldn't get a hold of a tow truck, got a cab home. Called the tow truck this morning. Dad came back up. (He came up for my concert and then left to drive home and got stuck by the storms all night so he wasn't far away. My car broke down driving home from dinner.) Took it to a highly recommended auto place. Took a look at it, could be serious, may not be. I hope I don't have to get a new car, that would really be unfortunate, don't you agree?
So, waiting on the verdict. Apparently the water level was at zero and "smelled hot"....which means that I didn't notice my water temp gauge moving into the hot zone. Stupid me. But I had been driving so little while I was here (just a mile or so here and there) that I never stopped to just look at it. Which is still stupid becuase it is something you're supposed to check every time you turn your car on. woops. So yeah, I feel awful, and hope I didn't just ruin my engine. Life lesson here folks :l
I still have 3 days before I have to leave, so hopefully what can be done will be done by then. Cross your fingers!
Other than all that, I'm great! Concert went great last night. My duet with the flute was as close to flawless as you can get in a performance. And I got to stand and be recognized, so that was cool. Dad came out and really enjoyed the concert too. Anyway, I'm going to go watch a movie, maybe play on my computer...just be lazy today since my hard part is over in the festival. I just got back from the Colonial cafe where I had a stack of peanut butter chip pancakes....yum. Bet you're jelous huh?
:o)
My car broke down. On the road. While I was driving it. Yep.
It had been running fine...or so I had thought. Then it started making funny noises. Then it just died on me last night. Couldn't get a hold of a tow truck, got a cab home. Called the tow truck this morning. Dad came back up. (He came up for my concert and then left to drive home and got stuck by the storms all night so he wasn't far away. My car broke down driving home from dinner.) Took it to a highly recommended auto place. Took a look at it, could be serious, may not be. I hope I don't have to get a new car, that would really be unfortunate, don't you agree?
So, waiting on the verdict. Apparently the water level was at zero and "smelled hot"....which means that I didn't notice my water temp gauge moving into the hot zone. Stupid me. But I had been driving so little while I was here (just a mile or so here and there) that I never stopped to just look at it. Which is still stupid becuase it is something you're supposed to check every time you turn your car on. woops. So yeah, I feel awful, and hope I didn't just ruin my engine. Life lesson here folks :l
I still have 3 days before I have to leave, so hopefully what can be done will be done by then. Cross your fingers!
Other than all that, I'm great! Concert went great last night. My duet with the flute was as close to flawless as you can get in a performance. And I got to stand and be recognized, so that was cool. Dad came out and really enjoyed the concert too. Anyway, I'm going to go watch a movie, maybe play on my computer...just be lazy today since my hard part is over in the festival. I just got back from the Colonial cafe where I had a stack of peanut butter chip pancakes....yum. Bet you're jelous huh?
:o)
Wednesday, June 10, 2009
Hot Spring Happenings
Ok, so tonight is the concert where I play Bizet's l'arlsienne suite 2 and Shulman's cello concerto. It is a pretty big concert. The Shulman is pretty modern, but I love it, and kind of has some middle eastern vibes to it. The Bizet is awsome. Everyone knows the 4th movement too....unfortunately the only movement I don't play on. But I do have an exposed duet with the flute in the third movement. So. Excited!!
Ok, so other than that, nothin much. Except yesterday my car decided to not start while at a movie rental place. Called a tow truck and everything....and then it started an hour later. So cancelled the tow truck, which was good. It has been fine since, other than this occasional click-clack sound the engine is making. I'm worried that my car has lost it's will to live. It just got out of the shop for bad coils and spark plugs. But we are thinking that it might have been vapor locked, whatever that means. But it made me miss the African drum piece on the chamber concert and the Brauhms so booooo!!!
Gotta go eat dinner before the concert. Love to all!!
Ok, so other than that, nothin much. Except yesterday my car decided to not start while at a movie rental place. Called a tow truck and everything....and then it started an hour later. So cancelled the tow truck, which was good. It has been fine since, other than this occasional click-clack sound the engine is making. I'm worried that my car has lost it's will to live. It just got out of the shop for bad coils and spark plugs. But we are thinking that it might have been vapor locked, whatever that means. But it made me miss the African drum piece on the chamber concert and the Brauhms so booooo!!!
Gotta go eat dinner before the concert. Love to all!!
Sunday, June 7, 2009
Saturday, June 6, 2009
Day 7...I think...
Today was busy. Got up early, took a shower. Went to the farmer's market at 8:00. Got some blackberries...mmm...went to rehearsal at 9am. We rehearsed Mahler's 10th symphony, first movement...which is the only movement of it he finished before kicking it. It is not my favorite piece and we did a lot of sitting there because we were playing an edited version by Richard our conductor so there was a lot of checking to make sure everyone had the right notes in thier parts. That and the fact that there is not a lot of harp part in it. But, we played beautifully when we could. So all in all, good.
Then Shana (my mentor) and I practiced, then went to lunch at a fusion cuisine place. Talk about fusing cultures together...yep they mastered it but it is all soooo good. We got a fried banana cheescake thing with ice cream that was so good...I'll post a pic of it tomorrow.
Then we went back and practiced some more for the Family/children's concert that we were playing on tonight, which went really well. There are these 2 cute girls that I keep seeing at all the concerts and one is really interested in the harp. So we played a little piece on the program, along with a bunch of others, talking about different instruments and when they came about. The African drums were probably my favorite, though the saxophone quartet was awsome too...as well as the clarinet piece...it was all good. Then I went to half of the Piano Mania concert, which I just got back from. Whew that was a lot! I also might go to the Brauhouse pub to listen to the brass jam session, as well as some polka. Shana plays the accordian in the polka music jam sessions and I really am in the mood to hang out and hear it. (Which is the only reason I'm even going to the bar.)
My leg is doing much better still. It's still bandaged and wrapped up but it is not hurting much and is not enflamed anymore. I could actually walk like a normal person today. YAY!!
Tomorrow is Shulmer and Bizet. Tell you all about it later.
;o)
Then Shana (my mentor) and I practiced, then went to lunch at a fusion cuisine place. Talk about fusing cultures together...yep they mastered it but it is all soooo good. We got a fried banana cheescake thing with ice cream that was so good...I'll post a pic of it tomorrow.
Then we went back and practiced some more for the Family/children's concert that we were playing on tonight, which went really well. There are these 2 cute girls that I keep seeing at all the concerts and one is really interested in the harp. So we played a little piece on the program, along with a bunch of others, talking about different instruments and when they came about. The African drums were probably my favorite, though the saxophone quartet was awsome too...as well as the clarinet piece...it was all good. Then I went to half of the Piano Mania concert, which I just got back from. Whew that was a lot! I also might go to the Brauhouse pub to listen to the brass jam session, as well as some polka. Shana plays the accordian in the polka music jam sessions and I really am in the mood to hang out and hear it. (Which is the only reason I'm even going to the bar.)
My leg is doing much better still. It's still bandaged and wrapped up but it is not hurting much and is not enflamed anymore. I could actually walk like a normal person today. YAY!!
Tomorrow is Shulmer and Bizet. Tell you all about it later.
;o)
Thursday, June 4, 2009
Day...I lost count. But it was my day off.
So today I did absolutely nothing. There were recording sessions all day so no rehearsals and my fingers hurt still so I just gave them a break today.
I went to breakfast at the Pancake Shope....it was amazing. I might have to buy some of their apple butter. They are known for their pancakes but I will go for their wheat toast with apple butter and a glass of fresh squeezed orange juice...this is literally the best orange juice you will ever taste. Yep.
Then I took a walk down historic district, cause it was nice out...a little chilly, but compared to heat it was nice. I then went back to the room and fell asleep reading. Then woke up, and fell asleep again. I got up at 4pm and my roommate and I went out and had ice cream for dinner....yum...and rented some movies, which we are about to watch. So that was pretty much my day off.
I went to breakfast at the Pancake Shope....it was amazing. I might have to buy some of their apple butter. They are known for their pancakes but I will go for their wheat toast with apple butter and a glass of fresh squeezed orange juice...this is literally the best orange juice you will ever taste. Yep.
Then I took a walk down historic district, cause it was nice out...a little chilly, but compared to heat it was nice. I then went back to the room and fell asleep reading. Then woke up, and fell asleep again. I got up at 4pm and my roommate and I went out and had ice cream for dinner....yum...and rented some movies, which we are about to watch. So that was pretty much my day off.
Wednesday, June 3, 2009
Day 4 in Hot Springs
Soooooo......yeah. Not much to write about right now. My leg still hurts, but it's getting better. We have our first concert tonight...pretty excited. I play on the last piece, Ravel's Daphnes and Chloe. Awsome piece, very emotional. I love emotional pieces. And it's programmatic too, which are my favorites to play.
I am not practicing today, other than rehearsal this morning. My fingers are so sore, I need to rest them for tonight or I will be unable to make myself heard. I can't even do a glissando with my right index finger right now....I'm having to use my picks instead. It makes the glisses sound louder anyway. So wish me luck, hope I don't mess up -_;
Anyway, I just read some amazing news that makes my day so much happier!!! My best friend is going to have another baby!! I am so excited for her and can't wait to talk to her...it's been awhile and I feel really bad. But yay!!!!
Here is an impromptu pic I took with my camera while sitting at a stoplight in the middle of downtown historic district of the town of Hot Springs.
I am not practicing today, other than rehearsal this morning. My fingers are so sore, I need to rest them for tonight or I will be unable to make myself heard. I can't even do a glissando with my right index finger right now....I'm having to use my picks instead. It makes the glisses sound louder anyway. So wish me luck, hope I don't mess up -_;
Anyway, I just read some amazing news that makes my day so much happier!!! My best friend is going to have another baby!! I am so excited for her and can't wait to talk to her...it's been awhile and I feel really bad. But yay!!!!
Here is an impromptu pic I took with my camera while sitting at a stoplight in the middle of downtown historic district of the town of Hot Springs.
Monday, June 1, 2009
Hot Springs Music Festival: Day 2
Nothing exciting really happened today. I'm peeved that I can't run. And rehearsal was not so fun. My fingers have blisters on them from playing so many glissandos and he kept wanting me to play louder, as if I don't know that I have to. AHH!! I'm trying to save my fingers for the concert OK?! Besides that, Richard Rosenburg is one of the better conductors I have played under. He has a keen ear, knows the music really well, and is easy to follow. That's a lot more than a lot of conductors out there. Even more annoying is when conductors cue you for harmonics and they don't sound. That's embarrassing.
So, I don't think I posted about this. 4 days ago I cut the backside of my leg right along the inside of my knee. Pretty bad. Apparently it was hilarious, according to Mom and sister Kimberly. We have about 3 acres. My mom was mowing the field with the bushhog attached to the tractor (google it). There was a big branch that got wedged up where the bushhog connects to the tractor. I was trying to pull it out. I overbalanced and starting flailing becuase I was falling over backwards...and most of the branch was behind me, with part of it pressed up against my leg. All I could think of was "someone please help me becuase if I fall backwards this piece of tree branch is going to go right though my knee." And "oh snap." It was one of those moments. Mom and Kim were standing right there but just watched as I fell. Their excuse was that they were stuck in the mindset of "oh my gosh she's going to fall flat on her back!" and never got to the part where maybe they should help me. So they just stood and ogled.
Well, I managed to fall in such a way that the branch just scraped my leg instead of going through it. Go me.
Here is what it looks like today:
So, I don't think I posted about this. 4 days ago I cut the backside of my leg right along the inside of my knee. Pretty bad. Apparently it was hilarious, according to Mom and sister Kimberly. We have about 3 acres. My mom was mowing the field with the bushhog attached to the tractor (google it). There was a big branch that got wedged up where the bushhog connects to the tractor. I was trying to pull it out. I overbalanced and starting flailing becuase I was falling over backwards...and most of the branch was behind me, with part of it pressed up against my leg. All I could think of was "someone please help me becuase if I fall backwards this piece of tree branch is going to go right though my knee." And "oh snap." It was one of those moments. Mom and Kim were standing right there but just watched as I fell. Their excuse was that they were stuck in the mindset of "oh my gosh she's going to fall flat on her back!" and never got to the part where maybe they should help me. So they just stood and ogled.
Well, I managed to fall in such a way that the branch just scraped my leg instead of going through it. Go me.
Here is what it looks like today:
Apparently it looks really bad. I didn't think it was all that bad and ppl are asking if I had surgery or got in a bike accident or something. And it looks a lot worse in real life...this is just a pic off my camera. It wouldn't be that bad but it is taking a long time to heal becuase it is in an area where the skin is bending all the time. There is bruising too. So I walk with a limp becuase I'm trying not to bend it. It's really not as bad as all that though. Just makes me furious that I can't run yet.
Aren't you glad I'm sharing this with you??
Sunday, May 31, 2009
Hot Springs AR: Day 1
I'm not sure if I can post pics right now. I would like to, but this dinky little computer I'm on is so outdated that half the other dinky computers in this tiny lab are not working. Don't get me wrong!! I'm totally grateful to have internet at all right now, even if the hours are limited and the security only lets me get on a handful of sights. I was actually surprised it let me onto blogspot.
Right now I'm in Hot Springs, AR. The little town of Hot Springs, right in the center of Hot Springs Natl Park. It's pretty amazing here. I came here (and last year) to participate in the Hot Springs Music Festival. Apparently my resume and recording were impressive enough to make it in as an apprentice last year. As an apprentice, I come and play my brains out in rehearsals and concerts for two weeks on full scholorship. In other words, they pay for me to come and play my brains out and all I have to do is bring my harp, clothes, and money for food. The harp mentor, Shana, told me that if I wanted to come back, she would take my application first. So here I am, out in the hot woods of the south. I surprised a lot of ppl with my new haircut too, including my roommate from last year who I thought was going to have a heart attack when she saw me...
So today was my first day. I got in yesterday evening. Funny story. The key for room they gave me and had me signed up for had a guy already in it. So I just walk in, thinking it's my roomie from last year (we requested each other but we didn't get each other in the end) and there is a guy sitting on the bed. I ask if this is his room and he says "yep." We discuss briefly what room it is and if we had a coed room on purpose, we agree "no," and I go back downstairs, slightly embarrassed and greatly relieved that I didn't walk in to find something less innocent than a guy sitting on the bed...yeah...
So then they looked, sure enough I was signed up for that room, and they issued me another key, and said it was a single. Well, it wasn't. But that's ok becuase my new roomie is really nice and, most importantly, a girl.
So I was going to get up at 7am with the intention of running...only to be woken up by one of the girls in the room adjacent that we share a shower with at 6:15 in the morning. I try to go back to sleep, but it's no good. I lay there for a while, and finally get up at 6:30 when our neighbor is done with the shower. And then I remembered it was Sunday. So I got up earlier than I intended, and didn't go running. Usually in these situations you would sleep in. That's life in an old, zero sound insulated dorm building for ya. At least I got to do my hair all nice :)
So I met with my mentor (I'm the only harp apprentice) at 9am and we went over the music we had to know for rehearsal this afternoon at 2pm. Mind you I had only gotten the music the night before, so I was sightreading. But, I am an excellent sight reader, so we got through the rehearsal pretty well considering. I only missed a few cues.
So here I am. Typing becuase I have nothing else to do and I can't practice anymore today. I haven't really practiced as much as I should lately so I already have blisters on my fingers from playing so many glisses...though if I were in practice shape today's 5 hours of playing would have been blister free. There is a cabaret concert tonight at the Arlington Hotel, so I'm going to go eat before I go. I will try to post some pics later.
Right now I'm in Hot Springs, AR. The little town of Hot Springs, right in the center of Hot Springs Natl Park. It's pretty amazing here. I came here (and last year) to participate in the Hot Springs Music Festival. Apparently my resume and recording were impressive enough to make it in as an apprentice last year. As an apprentice, I come and play my brains out in rehearsals and concerts for two weeks on full scholorship. In other words, they pay for me to come and play my brains out and all I have to do is bring my harp, clothes, and money for food. The harp mentor, Shana, told me that if I wanted to come back, she would take my application first. So here I am, out in the hot woods of the south. I surprised a lot of ppl with my new haircut too, including my roommate from last year who I thought was going to have a heart attack when she saw me...
So today was my first day. I got in yesterday evening. Funny story. The key for room they gave me and had me signed up for had a guy already in it. So I just walk in, thinking it's my roomie from last year (we requested each other but we didn't get each other in the end) and there is a guy sitting on the bed. I ask if this is his room and he says "yep." We discuss briefly what room it is and if we had a coed room on purpose, we agree "no," and I go back downstairs, slightly embarrassed and greatly relieved that I didn't walk in to find something less innocent than a guy sitting on the bed...yeah...
So then they looked, sure enough I was signed up for that room, and they issued me another key, and said it was a single. Well, it wasn't. But that's ok becuase my new roomie is really nice and, most importantly, a girl.
So I was going to get up at 7am with the intention of running...only to be woken up by one of the girls in the room adjacent that we share a shower with at 6:15 in the morning. I try to go back to sleep, but it's no good. I lay there for a while, and finally get up at 6:30 when our neighbor is done with the shower. And then I remembered it was Sunday. So I got up earlier than I intended, and didn't go running. Usually in these situations you would sleep in. That's life in an old, zero sound insulated dorm building for ya. At least I got to do my hair all nice :)
So I met with my mentor (I'm the only harp apprentice) at 9am and we went over the music we had to know for rehearsal this afternoon at 2pm. Mind you I had only gotten the music the night before, so I was sightreading. But, I am an excellent sight reader, so we got through the rehearsal pretty well considering. I only missed a few cues.
So here I am. Typing becuase I have nothing else to do and I can't practice anymore today. I haven't really practiced as much as I should lately so I already have blisters on my fingers from playing so many glisses...though if I were in practice shape today's 5 hours of playing would have been blister free. There is a cabaret concert tonight at the Arlington Hotel, so I'm going to go eat before I go. I will try to post some pics later.
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