Week of March 19
What time is it? It's spring break time!!! Woo-hoo! How appropriate that it begin on the first day of spring as well! However, it feels a bit like January outside being that it's 10:30 in the morning and it isn't above 30 degrees! Flowers are blooming in little gardens and I look at them and want to say "Oh no little flowers! Hurry! Go back in the ground! You live in Massachusetts and it's still winter until June!!! Go back Go back!!!" Oh well - the sun IS shining so I cannot complain.
Let's see - so I've commited this Spring Break to some serious work and I hope I can stick with it! I'm going to study like mad for the chorale harmonization exam I need to take in May and my goal is to practice piano 2 hours a day. Why do I put this on here, you ask? Well, now I'm held a little bit accountable for my actions - so now everyone can send a little email saying "are you practicing those silly little scales and arpeggios like you said you were going to?" HA HA HA! In addition, my other goal is to solidify two more songs for my recital in May. I haven't had a voice lesson in 3 weeks now and I am going a bit mad! After the break I am participating in two masterclasses (Janet Bookspan and Warren Jones) as well as the honors competition and then in 3 weeks my recital jury! Oh! It's all coming around too quickly! This is why my spring break will only be a break from classes! However, I will try to fit in a little fun by going shopping for a recital dress :-)
We've started a running club at Longy. We now meet on Sunday's to have a fun run together and then a little socializing afterwards. It's nice because I'm still meeting and getting to know people outside my department and we are doing something other than playing or singing in an ensemble together!
I guess my other piece of news is that I was accepted into the GPD program (Graduate Performance Degree) at Longy so I will be in grad school for 1 or 2 more years trying to get this instrument under a bit of control. I'm hoping this will be the last of school for a while-but if you know me, you know that this is never the truth! Although, giving myself some credit, I did have 4 years in the "real world" before going back to school! :-)

Happy Monday!!!

The past week has kind of been a blur. Most likely because I slept through most of it!!!
Monday I had my preliminary audition for the Artist Diploma and although I did not get invited to the the actual Artist Diploma audition, I did get accepted into the Graduate Performance Diploma program! The audition itself went really well but the technicality was that I suppose I don't have enough outside performance experience (this was what I was told at least). So..... yay! So now I just need to decide whether I want to do the GPD in one year or two years -- oh... decisions.
Tuesday morning the stress of this audition caught up with me b/c I awoke with what would be the start to a yucky yucky cold virus which kept me in bed most of the week. I'm feeling much better now (yay!) and although the voice isn't 100% I have a lot more energy.
Saturday Ashley, Michelle, and Bree and I went to see Munich at the Harvard Square theatre. WOW! I don't think I've seen a movie that's effected me so much in a long long time. When it was over (all 3 hours of it) the four of us just sat there and stared at the screen - it was just so much to take in. I mean as the movie went on I sort of began to empathize with this Israeli counter-terrorist team as they go around killing the PLO terrorists responsible for the massacre of the Israeli atheletes in the 1972 Munich Olympic games - but then had to keep reminding myself that "Hey! these guys are killers too - they are also assassins!" Revenge is just a never ending, hate-filled cycle. I would highly recommend this movie!
A new week has begun and I'm ready for it!!