Hey anyone out there :)
So we had that concert tonight I wrote about in the last post. I thought we pulled it off rather successfully and had an exhilirating last piece (the Glass Timpani Concerto Fantasy), in my opinion. I know I was rushin' on adreniline from the time we commenced the third movement until I finished my food at Ikes.
I'm currently watching Beauty and the Beast with my friend and my roommate and I'm listening to the score and realize how much just this first semester and a half of my college education has affected my appreciation and understanding of music. When they strike up the band to play "Here Comes the Bride" and the first thing your mind goes to is hmmm that's a perfect fourth or ya listen to music in the background of a love scene or action scene and think wow nice oboe solo or nice harmonies down there in the horn section, it hits ya how much you've really learned and come to appreciate. My non-music major friends have come to hate me because I'll lean over during a show or movie and go psst...that's an oboe (if you haven't guessed by now, I'm an oboe player and I love the French horn haha). Thanks for reading this post, and if you're not a music person, that's ok, you don't have to be, I just ask for your support. See a show, donate ten bucks to the high school band boosters...help keep the arts in schools and keep music live...we're not called starving musicians for no reason....live music is dying out and arts are getting cut out of school programs everywhere. Music is such a wonderful thing, and helps kids (especially autistic) in school, helps healing and relieving pain (such as in cancer patients, I hear), and creates so many neural connections it's crazy! Sorry, haha, didn't mean to turn this into a PSA hehe.
So yeah. Concert was successful. Movie music scores are great. I'm still a child at heart and love Disney. French horn is amazing. So is oboe. I'm done now.
Until next time, something for you to ponder: WHY THE FREAK DON'T PEOPLE SHOWER OR DO LAUNDRY WHEN THEIR CLOTHES OR BODY SMELL/LOOK/ARE FUNKY AND THEY HAVE NOTHING BETTER TO DO WITH THEIR TIME?!?!?!
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
Saturday, February 21, 2009
Music and Movies
Howdy y'all, how ya doin' t'night?!
Short post coz I'm watching Rent with my old roommate who's visiting me this weekend!!! And being really awesome and coming to the Wind Symphony concert on tuesday! Yay!
Anywhooo, music and movies. This thought was spurred on by watching Rent, the movie version. I've seen the Broadway version twice and listen to the Original Broadway Cast on my iTunes and iPod. Not saying that I don't like the movie, I do (Adam Pascal, ZOMG), I just wish they hadn't cut some songs and rearranged some of the scenes/songs. Granted, I didn't expect them to throw the orgasm scene in there but "Goodbye Love" and "Halloween" are awesome! They would have been what, five minutes extra to the movie? I've noticed this with other movie versions of musicals. Like Hairspray. Who sings to a photo? She needs to be in jail and they need to sing together and whatnot. Wasn't happy with that order of things either.
Now, chronology of things is not only messed up in musicals but I also noticed many things I didn't like in Twilight. We saw this movie tonight on campus and I remembered how much I disagreed with several parts of the movie. But alas, I'm not a film major and have no desire to be a movie director or producer, so my thoughts shan't be heard or obeyed haha.
Music, however, I can control (mwahahaha sorry students of the future). I had one of the most amazing oboe lessons this morning! Sorry this post is sorta random haha. My professor was being super strict with me today but in a good way! She got me to produce the most amazing tone! Started working on double and triple tonguing today too, I think I can do it, now that I know what to actually do. :) I need to stop being lazy and practice, but now that I'm working on the Mozart Concerto in C for oboe, chances are, I'll practice haha. I LOVE this concerto. A lot. I also really really enjoy most of the pieces we're playing on tuesday's concert. (8 pm. Concert hall, GMU. Go. KTHNX) We're playing a couple of pieces. We're playing a piece called Cathedrals by Kathryn Salfelder, based off of Gabrieli’s Canzon Primi Toni. This is a pretty interesting piece, lots of cool brass choir. We're also playing a Prokofiev March, a piece called Festivo (Gesualdo), Morro Lasso (Gregson) (P.s. i may have reversed Gesualdo and Gregson), and a really cool piece that I really like called “Concerto Fantasy for Two Timpanists & Orchestra” by Philip Glass. We're having two guest artists -well technically one because one's a professor here, but alas, I digress- playing fourteen timpani drums upstage. It's a three movement piece and it's awesome! The guest artists are Jonathan Hass and our very own John Kilkenny. It's gonna be super cool and you should definately come see it.
Ok so I think I'll let you go about your ways and go annoy the crap out of my floor with singing :D I'm sure I'll ramble about music again some time in the near future! Nightnight!
Until next time, somthing for you to ponder: why the hell does college cost so much!?
Short post coz I'm watching Rent with my old roommate who's visiting me this weekend!!! And being really awesome and coming to the Wind Symphony concert on tuesday! Yay!
Anywhooo, music and movies. This thought was spurred on by watching Rent, the movie version. I've seen the Broadway version twice and listen to the Original Broadway Cast on my iTunes and iPod. Not saying that I don't like the movie, I do (Adam Pascal, ZOMG), I just wish they hadn't cut some songs and rearranged some of the scenes/songs. Granted, I didn't expect them to throw the orgasm scene in there but "Goodbye Love" and "Halloween" are awesome! They would have been what, five minutes extra to the movie? I've noticed this with other movie versions of musicals. Like Hairspray. Who sings to a photo? She needs to be in jail and they need to sing together and whatnot. Wasn't happy with that order of things either.
Now, chronology of things is not only messed up in musicals but I also noticed many things I didn't like in Twilight. We saw this movie tonight on campus and I remembered how much I disagreed with several parts of the movie. But alas, I'm not a film major and have no desire to be a movie director or producer, so my thoughts shan't be heard or obeyed haha.
Music, however, I can control (mwahahaha sorry students of the future). I had one of the most amazing oboe lessons this morning! Sorry this post is sorta random haha. My professor was being super strict with me today but in a good way! She got me to produce the most amazing tone! Started working on double and triple tonguing today too, I think I can do it, now that I know what to actually do. :) I need to stop being lazy and practice, but now that I'm working on the Mozart Concerto in C for oboe, chances are, I'll practice haha. I LOVE this concerto. A lot. I also really really enjoy most of the pieces we're playing on tuesday's concert. (8 pm. Concert hall, GMU. Go. KTHNX) We're playing a couple of pieces. We're playing a piece called Cathedrals by Kathryn Salfelder, based off of Gabrieli’s Canzon Primi Toni. This is a pretty interesting piece, lots of cool brass choir. We're also playing a Prokofiev March, a piece called Festivo (Gesualdo), Morro Lasso (Gregson) (P.s. i may have reversed Gesualdo and Gregson), and a really cool piece that I really like called “Concerto Fantasy for Two Timpanists & Orchestra” by Philip Glass. We're having two guest artists -well technically one because one's a professor here, but alas, I digress- playing fourteen timpani drums upstage. It's a three movement piece and it's awesome! The guest artists are Jonathan Hass and our very own John Kilkenny. It's gonna be super cool and you should definately come see it.
Ok so I think I'll let you go about your ways and go annoy the crap out of my floor with singing :D I'm sure I'll ramble about music again some time in the near future! Nightnight!
Until next time, somthing for you to ponder: why the hell does college cost so much!?
Thursday, February 19, 2009
So it's been a while and lots of stuff has happened!
Where to begin where to begin... I guess there's really just two things that have been going on recently...
For starters, we've been working on starting up a chapter of SAI here on GMU's campus :) That's Sigma Alpha Iota and its a womens music fraternity (argue with me and I will be forced to slap you)...and I'm really excited about this :D We're still in the works but I think we're making progress and getting somewhere :) More to come on updates with that...
The other thing that happened this past week was a good friend of mine and my older oboe sister in our studio (there's only three of us haha), lost her older sister in an accident in Orlando, Florida. The accident happened in the early morning and only two people died, one of them being Katie's sister, Shannon. If you care to read the article or know more, here's a link for you:
http://www.gainesville.com/article/20090217/ARTICLES/902171003
The Kane family has been in my thoughts and heart (if I prayed, they'd be in my prayers as well). If I've taken anything away from this, I'm trying to learn to live my life to the fullest, and I've always kind of believed in this but hearing about such a tragedy that happened to someone who surely doesn't deserve it to a family who has raised such a wonderful person like Katie, I can only imagine how wonderful the family is, and I wouldn't wish this upon anyone, but especially them. It just goes to show you, death can affect anyone, young or old, randomly, whether they be sick or completly fully healthy. Don't take anything forgranted, and splurge a little sometimes. Sorry to end on such a somber note, but it's been playing on my mind a bit. On a happier note, congrats to Katie for being one of five winners in our schools concerto competition! She's a fine player and deserves that win very much :)
That's all for now, I'll try and remember to post more often haha.
For starters, we've been working on starting up a chapter of SAI here on GMU's campus :) That's Sigma Alpha Iota and its a womens music fraternity (argue with me and I will be forced to slap you)...and I'm really excited about this :D We're still in the works but I think we're making progress and getting somewhere :) More to come on updates with that...
The other thing that happened this past week was a good friend of mine and my older oboe sister in our studio (there's only three of us haha), lost her older sister in an accident in Orlando, Florida. The accident happened in the early morning and only two people died, one of them being Katie's sister, Shannon. If you care to read the article or know more, here's a link for you:
http://www.gainesville.com/article/20090217/ARTICLES/902171003
The Kane family has been in my thoughts and heart (if I prayed, they'd be in my prayers as well). If I've taken anything away from this, I'm trying to learn to live my life to the fullest, and I've always kind of believed in this but hearing about such a tragedy that happened to someone who surely doesn't deserve it to a family who has raised such a wonderful person like Katie, I can only imagine how wonderful the family is, and I wouldn't wish this upon anyone, but especially them. It just goes to show you, death can affect anyone, young or old, randomly, whether they be sick or completly fully healthy. Don't take anything forgranted, and splurge a little sometimes. Sorry to end on such a somber note, but it's been playing on my mind a bit. On a happier note, congrats to Katie for being one of five winners in our schools concerto competition! She's a fine player and deserves that win very much :)
That's all for now, I'll try and remember to post more often haha.
Sunday, February 1, 2009
Hope it gives you hell.
As you can probably tell from my post title, I am not very happy. This post is going to be about girls and how catty they can be.
Tonight, I was angrier than I ever had been, my hands were literally shaking and I had a pit in my stomach that made me want to cry, scream, and just go to sleep at the same time. This is due to rumors. Granted, the rumor was nothing horrible, not that I had been sleeping around or gave someone herpes or killed someone or anything (fyi, I've done none of the above), but it was just enough to potentially ruin a relationship between two people (for relationships see my first post). I am unaware as to the reasons for this persons speaking about me and am going to attempt to confront it tomorrow...errr today...but as for now, I just feel horrible and do not understand why I was targeted. Unfortunately, this put some things into perspective for me. It's amazing how something so trivial as a couple of words can have such an effect on things. On a more positive and random note, it's very easy to make me happy, it's the little things for me, like a simple compliment on my hair or noticing something I did. I just wanted to post on how rediculous it is to start rumors to hurt someone like this (for the record, I'm very near tears right now because I'm exhausted with friend drama...and the music I'm listening to isn't helping much either).
Another thing girls do that is exceedingly catty is act twofacedly. No I am unaware as to whether or not that is a word. This is probably one of the worst things someone can do to a person. When the person you're being two faced two finds out about it, it hurts even more than just telling them from the get-go that you're not interested in them. Granted, I'm awful at confronting people and this whole blog might wind up being hypocritical, but I'm often bad at practicing what I preach...unless it's recycling....but I digress.
I'm tired and don't know what else to say except for while boys can be all stength and fighting and confusing, girls are by far the worst to deal with because their random mood swings, twofacedness, rumor spreading, and drama are probably the worst thing to do. I really hate the bad girls out there who ruin things for good girls like me (that may sound conceited, but I strive to be and think I am most of the time a good person). Sadly, the people who should be reading this blog are probably not either. Another FYI, I don't care if you think this is a cry for attention, because it's not. It's just a way for me to get out how I'm feeling and you don't have to read it.
Until next time, something for you to ponder: Do we all see colors the same way?
Tonight, I was angrier than I ever had been, my hands were literally shaking and I had a pit in my stomach that made me want to cry, scream, and just go to sleep at the same time. This is due to rumors. Granted, the rumor was nothing horrible, not that I had been sleeping around or gave someone herpes or killed someone or anything (fyi, I've done none of the above), but it was just enough to potentially ruin a relationship between two people (for relationships see my first post). I am unaware as to the reasons for this persons speaking about me and am going to attempt to confront it tomorrow...errr today...but as for now, I just feel horrible and do not understand why I was targeted. Unfortunately, this put some things into perspective for me. It's amazing how something so trivial as a couple of words can have such an effect on things. On a more positive and random note, it's very easy to make me happy, it's the little things for me, like a simple compliment on my hair or noticing something I did. I just wanted to post on how rediculous it is to start rumors to hurt someone like this (for the record, I'm very near tears right now because I'm exhausted with friend drama...and the music I'm listening to isn't helping much either).
Another thing girls do that is exceedingly catty is act twofacedly. No I am unaware as to whether or not that is a word. This is probably one of the worst things someone can do to a person. When the person you're being two faced two finds out about it, it hurts even more than just telling them from the get-go that you're not interested in them. Granted, I'm awful at confronting people and this whole blog might wind up being hypocritical, but I'm often bad at practicing what I preach...unless it's recycling....but I digress.
I'm tired and don't know what else to say except for while boys can be all stength and fighting and confusing, girls are by far the worst to deal with because their random mood swings, twofacedness, rumor spreading, and drama are probably the worst thing to do. I really hate the bad girls out there who ruin things for good girls like me (that may sound conceited, but I strive to be and think I am most of the time a good person). Sadly, the people who should be reading this blog are probably not either. Another FYI, I don't care if you think this is a cry for attention, because it's not. It's just a way for me to get out how I'm feeling and you don't have to read it.
Until next time, something for you to ponder: Do we all see colors the same way?
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