And it goes super well

Anybody else ever talk about having a rehearsal and then wonder what the heck a “hearsal” is?

Happy Birthday, Rameau!

Here’s a lil’ throwback in your honor:

You know what they say about men with big hands…

They write difficult piano music.

Composers Saying Mean GirlsShit

no. 2

Charles Gounod

I will read “voila” as “viola” every time, no matter the context.

Listening to something in 7/8

Composers Saying Mean GirlsShit

no. 1

Franz Schubert

This license plate frame is coincidentally hilarious.

Gesamtkunstwerk: it’s not just an opera; it’s an EXPERIENCE.

I’m going to start referring to arguments as “voice exchanges”

When you finish a satisfying run through a rage aria

Sometimes it’s just nice to be enraged.

anyone else play your instrument like you dead?

I made another tiktok inspired by this one time freshman year when this guy asked to listen to me practice and then quietly left shortly after I started practicing

TikTok

I was like wow this random tiktok violinist is really good and then he did a video where he casually mentioned his violin is a stradivarius 

hi I made a tiktok if anyone wants to be music tiktok friends

I need all the motivation to play my instrument while in grad school pursuing two non-music degrees lol

https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMeyLaTJc/

hilariously long list I just made of pieces I’m “working on” when I practice every few weeks:

Violin

Carmen Fantasy (I bought this music bc my little sister was obsessed with Carmen Sandiego and there’s an episode where they play Carmen. I have worked on like maybe 4 pages of it) 

Zigeunerweisen (mixed feelings about this because of the title but so many people told me I should learn it that I eventually bought the music)

Bach sonata in A minor - fugue & andante (started yesterday)

Bach e major - prelude (have studied this before but it needs work)

Philip Glass violin concerto (had a couple lessons on this in 2019 but it’s like impossible to play and make it sound good, so I’m also working on some Philip Glass stuff on the piano which is way more satisfying but also above my playing level so it’s a struggle) 

Havanaise - I bought this as a joke because shar had a sale or something (so many people were playing it at my last school that everyone was sick of it but I will admit it is fun to play)

Brahms Hungarian Dance No. 5 - I saw someone playing this on tiktok and printed off an arrangement of it this morning lol

(also trying to relearn Sibelius bc it’s fun to play and I did have it memorized a couple years ago) 

Viola(sort of)

Bach cello suite in D minor - prelude

Bach cello suite in G major - prelude (of course, the Best piece)

Bach cello suite in C minor - prelude & gavottes

Faure Apres un reve but with the correct accents - trying to make my mom record this with me 

Asturias - one of the first alto clef pieces I bought, I can read the first half of it but am struggling through the second half because I’m not very fluent in alto clef yet

Rebecca Clarke sonata - I was jealous of my best friend playing this in undergrad but it’s still a little bit beyond my alto clef reading level atm

also looking into alto clef etudes to get better at reading, especially double stops & in positions, if anyone has suggestions

You either respond by 

or 

periodically I am reminded that I have finished all my aural skills classes 

I am free and it feels so good

hey.

yeah, you.

now’s a pretty good time for some practice, don’t you think? you can do it, I know you can. 

Go on, you have music to make. 

and you look at your professor like: 

When the first theme returns 

When the first theme returns withwell-placed chromaticism 

les biches <3

barely even a week into learning oboe and I’ve already blamed my reed for me sounding bad. I’m progressing really quick

can’t play Bb above the staff in bass clef on trombone because I am a silly string player and I have only a vague concept of how to buzz please help

guess who is learning oboe this quarter

WEINER WALTZ

shoutout to whoever left a bunch of these in the practice rooms

broke: slorping valve oil

woke: drinking reed water

anyone know of a place where you can reliably find free public domain scores other than imslp?

if I hear another freshman music major who insists on playing the first few measures of the chopin minute waltz in a practice room over and over for an hour because they can’t play anything else on piano I’ll have no choice but to become violent

just went busking and some guy said he wanted to give me $5 for my fiddle playing but he had no cash so he offered me a handful of weed

Getting ready for juries I really love the 2nd movement of Ravel’s Sonatine, it’s a nice transcription

I love my quintet

Somehow ended up playing Aria and Quodlibet by Running in the grad quintet for the chamber recital tonight Their oboist tested positive for covid yesterday and asked if I could sub for him in the chamber recital. Even though it wasn’t perfect, I’m glad I was able to pull it together enough that nobody noticed I’d only gotten the music the day before.

I love this excerpt from Brahms’ violin concerto, it’s so clean and sounds deceptively simple