13th Nov 2002
Music Edu Major
Ah, and the saga continues..
I’ve been taking private lessons and they’ve been going fairly well. I really like my instructor, she’s super nice. We’ve picked out the solo I will be performing, as well as the two selected studies. I just have to get those 3 things down, as well as my scales and I’m pretty much ready to go. Oh yeah, and I have to not freak out at the audition and mess up. It’s not like I have anything on the line.. just my FUTURE. =D
So anyway, today I met with Dr. Rothlisberger who will probably be my new advisor if I make it into the program. He’ll probably one of the people reviewing me at the audition too. It’s nice to be able to meet these people before I audition.. hopefully it will make things a little easier for me. So today he helped me figure out what to do about my schedule. Basically I’m gonna pack it full of geneds and a few music classes that don’t require permits.. and then during the add/drop period I’ll drop the geneds for the core classes. Oh goodie, another frantic scheduling period for me. I can’t wait. Eh, this time it’s worth it though. I really do love music more than anything else in my life.
Our homework that was due for my english class today proved my undying passion (and nerd-ness) for music. We read this essay that Aaron Copland wrote called “How We Listen to Music,” which was really quite interesting. I think I’m going to buy the book that it’s from (wow, me? buy a book? the amazing thing will be if I really read the whole thing..). But anyways the homework was a response to the essay. Usually on these responses I have to struggle to make a page and to really get into what I’m writing about, but this time I wrote 2 pages and probably could’ve done more if I had written it better. Go me. *shakes some pompoms* I guess writing isn’t so bad when you really can relate to what you’re talking about.
