I Bear a Musical Life

Well It seems as thought one more week has managed to just fly by...... At this point I don't feel stressed about any of my classes, but I don't necessarily feel extremely prepared either, It's some sort of relaxed in between stage.

To start lets look at my performance on recital. At first I was just relieved when I discovered I didn't have to memorize Hostias, It's not that I couldn't eventually do it, it just gives me a little less to do and no instead of trying to cram memorization on it I can just focus on the musicality of it and Non e ver since I have that one memorized. While my two Charles songs are not quite memorized I feel like with the focus the should come pretty easily. And this leads me to the decision that I really need to buckle down on my foreign pieces. the two German ones are coming along at a good speed, but my French piece still need some work, at this point it still feels sloppy and I am still working on trying to grasp myself around the text.

Overall I just look forward to this next week and the practicing that occurs, and I should finnally be able to start sending out my support letters! Hip hip hurray!

This Above All: To Thine Music Be True

Well the end of the semester is approaching very quickly. And with still a lot of stuff to come this is definitely not the time to get lazy. There are occasions where I start to get a little frustrated that I don't have as much music memorized as I would like, but then I snap out of it because the more I sit worrying about it, the more I waste time I could be practicing.

As for this week in particular I feel like it went really good. While I know I still have some work to do before I am sure I have Hostias memorized for Tuesday, so if I can't pull it together I might have to think about doing Non e ver again. But for right now I am just going to focus on it and when the time comes I will make my decision then. As for the rest of my pieces I feel like none of the melodies are extremely difficult, but I definitely need to do some consistent work on the diction of them, especially the foreign languages.

I can't be entirely sure whats God has in store for me next week, but I will just have to take it and run with it instead of wasting my time trying to over think things.

Alas, Poor Spring Break, I Knew Thee Well!

Well it seems like the semester has gotten back into motion in no time flat after break. Personally my break did not contain as much practice as I originally desired. I can't completely blame it but I think a moderate amount of it could have to do with a kind of dreariness hanging over my hose after the passing of my Grandma the Wednesday night before Spring Break. I felt really honored when a lot of my family members asked me to sing at the funeral service, so I worked with a few of them and we picked out a hymn for me and I worked on it here and there throughout the week. My mom made sure that practiced a least a little every day, now I just have to see if she can use this motivation of me for the rest of the things I have to practice. Anyways, as for this week it definitely took me a bit to get back into the swing of things when it comes to practicing and things like that, and it was really hard to stay inside with such an amazing week of weather. I think its time we get a piano that we can use outside to practice with (yes I realize the problems that would occur with this idea, but it doesn't mean I want it to happen any less :P). Now that things are finally on the move again and I can get on a moving with everything, I really do want to finish this semester strong and I know that I can with such amazing faculty and a God that is above everything. So its time to take hold of the present and set everything in my path ablaze.