Weekend Weirdness

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Here I am, posting on a Saturday! Unusual, but not that strange, if you consider the fact that my weekend started yesterday. I got to sleep in, which was thoroughly enjoyable. I also managed to get a few things done, like picking up my last round of orchestra music and knitting a bit at the masterclass I attended (Nadja Sonnenberg is a very cool lady violinist, quite the character). The only thing that distinguishes the weekend from the weekday here is the time of orchestra. Instead of 9am-12pm, it's at 1 or 2pm until 4 or 5pm. I'm a morning person, so I actually prefer the weekdays, weirdly. Players get a day of break after their concerts, but never enough to lose that wicked edge that playing in an orchestra daily seems to hone.

Our new music is interesting. We're doing selections from "The 3-cornered hat" by De Falla, Strauss' "Till Eulenspiegel", and two of the concerto competition winners (Sibelius violin concerto, movement 1, and "Totentantz" by Liszt). It's half hard, half easy. Goodness knows what everything's going to sound like. Both the student orchestras will be playing on Thursday and Friday night (another half and half bit of business).

Right now I quite tired. I'm considering going to the faculty orchestra's concert tonight. The star is the lovely lady I mentioned above. Before I leave, I present one of my favorite things about this place:

Squirrels in trashcans. They startle and they amuse!



Okay, I'm done.
Greeny