I know...another post...in only 5 minutes...
but I forgot what songs PYSO was playing this year....not that it matters to me...i'm not gonna be in it -_-...
and HUGE bolded words appear, as though mocking me for not being ready for PYSO...
"PYSO IN EUROPE!!!
yes...this year, the first time ever...
they are going to europe
not that it matters, i mean, my academy is going to europe in our sophmore year...maybe...damn bombings!
but still...It jsut seems to always be like that, when its there, I can't get it.
I remember the dead heavy voice i heard last year, "I'm sorry Lea, you're not ready for any youth orchestras yet"
it surely, truly, was a promise I had made to myself to be ready in a year, I guess I wasn't so crushed when Stuart had told me I couldn't try out for PYSO yet, merely because he was letting me try out for CYMO.
But I feell like that orchestra, PYSO, is a silk ribbon...or water....I grab it...and it slips through my hands...
When I look at the future I always wonder if all my musical expectations are going to be met...will I be the top no matter what? Will a crowd hold their breath as they hear me? Can I ever make one cry by one dramatic cresendo made not by the air but truly by my heart and words? Can I got to Juilliard? Go to study music in London and France?
It feels like I can't catch it..
I know, you'll all be mad i'm all giving you advice, and look at me!
But the truth of it is, I can't listen to myself all the time.
Well, off to piano
this blog certainly wasn't all inspiring...
it makes me a little mad...I think I'll practice when I get home...I'll finish hw later...
maybe I'll get first chair in CYMO...
that'd be impossible...
well who knows...
maybe if I won the concerto competition my teacher will be all like omg and let me try out...
sorry D: ignore moi....
off to piano...wait i sad that...
-_-
Wednesday, July 11, 2007
Concerto in F: 'In Memory of Gershwin'
Today, July 11th, 70 years ago, Gershwin died in Beverly Hills :[.
The first time I had ever heard Gershwin was in 2006, I'm a little ashamed to say I had NEVER known who gershwin was up until only last year, but let me say, i'm infatuated with his wonderful music.
He revolutionized music, in my opinion? One of the BEST composers who ever set foot on earth.
I remember watching fantasia 2000, Oh my mozart! It was the most wonderful thing I had ever heard, this clarinet solo that sprang up into the air...I fell in love with his music from the first note...
The second time I heard it I had not even REALIZED that it was Gershwin, ironically, I had the song on my first ever Gershwin CD...[pity it wasn't bernstein with the ny phil, best recording one can get of gershwin] . Unfortunately, I seemed to keep myself in a closed box, only listening to rhapsody in blue. Bernsteins pupil Carl St. Clair, conductor of the Pacific Symphony Orchestra had lead this performance in brea, playing American In Paris.
Gershwin truly was an innovative composer, he collaborated two completely seperated eras, he brought in new sounds [ex: american in paris, they actually use blow horns], he was absolutely unique
This is a composer, 'classical' music lover or non classical music lover would love. His music surely IS NOT some boring thing, it is different. :]
so all, please remember Gershwin today, his works are to die for, to never be forgotten, to never get sick of :]
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Now, as for my musical life, what is going on?
Well...
I'm going to the Hollywood Bowl with the P.A.A
I'm trying out for CYMO, despite the fact that PYSO is so much more awesomer [i mean come on, they are playing mahler and rimsky-koraskov's SCHEREHEZENDE! ANDD Sibelius's Finlandia]
I'm gonna see the PSO play Gershwin at irvine next sat...:] wanna come anyone? margarets already coming...oh yes and its for FREE, thanks to my awesome teacher
My lessons were canceled this week
I can't practice because of hw overload...
I hope my teacher is sitting first chair for this, he does a FINE clarinet intro into rhapsody in blue, dear god please let him be first chair that day :).
wtf am I rambling about by the way?
Well, my teacher had auditioned for the THIRD TIME, in TEN YEARS for PSO, I don't get it because he's at 80% of the performances anyways, and he's been working SO hard for this, even had a hiatus on lessons from him for two whole months, he played for michele zukovksy, the two people who were retiring and leaving their positions vacant [and if he got help from the best clarinetist in cali, zukovsky...surely it meant he'd be like ZE BEST!]. ANDD he's pretty much a member at PSO..and two damn new clarinetist from...WTF! some...state...i forgot...but,...IT WAS LIKE KENTUCKY I THINK! BEAT HIM TO IT!
this wasn't because he sucked though, he was put on the second day of auditions, and the conductor, st. clair, originally wanted only 6 people to get in the final round, by the second day, they had 15 people in the final round, by the time they got to him? he couldn't get in the round :[
I personally think they were trying to get him into the round, notice they added 15 more people...he soo deserves to get in -0-; but he seemed fine...but a little ticked about the new clarinetists, he said, "eh they are a little green..so maybe they might not stay too long"
:) rofl
yeah er OKAY! BYEE <3
and thanks chelsea :)
The first time I had ever heard Gershwin was in 2006, I'm a little ashamed to say I had NEVER known who gershwin was up until only last year, but let me say, i'm infatuated with his wonderful music.
He revolutionized music, in my opinion? One of the BEST composers who ever set foot on earth.
I remember watching fantasia 2000, Oh my mozart! It was the most wonderful thing I had ever heard, this clarinet solo that sprang up into the air...I fell in love with his music from the first note...
The second time I heard it I had not even REALIZED that it was Gershwin, ironically, I had the song on my first ever Gershwin CD...[pity it wasn't bernstein with the ny phil, best recording one can get of gershwin] . Unfortunately, I seemed to keep myself in a closed box, only listening to rhapsody in blue. Bernsteins pupil Carl St. Clair, conductor of the Pacific Symphony Orchestra had lead this performance in brea, playing American In Paris.
Gershwin truly was an innovative composer, he collaborated two completely seperated eras, he brought in new sounds [ex: american in paris, they actually use blow horns], he was absolutely unique
This is a composer, 'classical' music lover or non classical music lover would love. His music surely IS NOT some boring thing, it is different. :]
so all, please remember Gershwin today, his works are to die for, to never be forgotten, to never get sick of :]
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Now, as for my musical life, what is going on?
Well...
I'm going to the Hollywood Bowl with the P.A.A
I'm trying out for CYMO, despite the fact that PYSO is so much more awesomer [i mean come on, they are playing mahler and rimsky-koraskov's SCHEREHEZENDE! ANDD Sibelius's Finlandia]
I'm gonna see the PSO play Gershwin at irvine next sat...:] wanna come anyone? margarets already coming...oh yes and its for FREE, thanks to my awesome teacher
My lessons were canceled this week
I can't practice because of hw overload...
I hope my teacher is sitting first chair for this, he does a FINE clarinet intro into rhapsody in blue, dear god please let him be first chair that day :).
wtf am I rambling about by the way?
Well, my teacher had auditioned for the THIRD TIME, in TEN YEARS for PSO, I don't get it because he's at 80% of the performances anyways, and he's been working SO hard for this, even had a hiatus on lessons from him for two whole months, he played for michele zukovksy, the two people who were retiring and leaving their positions vacant [and if he got help from the best clarinetist in cali, zukovsky...surely it meant he'd be like ZE BEST!]. ANDD he's pretty much a member at PSO..and two damn new clarinetist from...WTF! some...state...i forgot...but,...IT WAS LIKE KENTUCKY I THINK! BEAT HIM TO IT!
this wasn't because he sucked though, he was put on the second day of auditions, and the conductor, st. clair, originally wanted only 6 people to get in the final round, by the second day, they had 15 people in the final round, by the time they got to him? he couldn't get in the round :[
I personally think they were trying to get him into the round, notice they added 15 more people...he soo deserves to get in -0-; but he seemed fine...but a little ticked about the new clarinetists, he said, "eh they are a little green..so maybe they might not stay too long"
:) rofl
yeah er OKAY! BYEE <3
and thanks chelsea :)
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