WOW,…I can’t believe it!

Summer is almost over,….:(  Time to start with lists and organization,..boo

To do list

• Make a massive batch of sauce and meatballs to freeze for quick meals.
• Pizza Dough!!!!!!!!!!
• Make sure that the house is clean. 
• Paint the french door
• Shoe shopping
• PRACTICE and finish harmony
• get back in shape with my horn
• get my students set up for the year. 
• FIGURE OUT MY SCHEDULE!!!
• Start SSHRC application–sigh
• Pick up bus pass/day planner/OLGA!!hisssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss
• Sort out office space—I am ready to fight!!

Focus, determination, and meditation,…

Meditation..

I am delighted to have taken some time for myself to recharge for this year.  I have taken a month off and I still have two weeks to go.  This is truly the calm before the storm…

Focus

I feel as though I am prepared for the first quarter… at least I think I am.  I have done a thorough score study of my first piece.  It took a long time but I have a solid plan for the first rehearsals.  My year looks like this,….

Research Seminar

Conducting Seminar

Lessons

Recital

• 1st Concert- Pageant-Persichetti w/Symphonic Band
• 2nd Concert-La Marche Sur la Bastille-Honegger w/WE
• 3rd Concert-Variants on a Medieval Tune ­– Dello Joio w/WE
• Chamber Concert-Harpsichord Concerto-De Falla, Beethoven Octet for Winds
• 4th Concert- Fantasia in G-Timothy Mahr w/Symphionic Band

Elective?? NO IDEA what to take booo X 1 million!!

TA-SOOOOOOO much work,…so little pay!

Determination-I am focused and ready to go.  I want to be the best conductor and musician I can possibly be!!!! 

Rattle,..the cool kind that is,…

continued…

Gershwin

On a break….

I will still post some of my favourite links while I am on a break.

Love these guys…

Enjoy

After Thursday, I have to start buckling down…..

I have so many projects on the go, and no desire to do any!!  I will begin work after Thursday.

BTW- THURSDAY IS OUR 4 YEAR ANNIVERSARY! WOO

This is soooooooooo true!

Washington DC Metro Station on a cold January morning in 2007. A man plays six Bach pieces for about 45 minutes. During that time approx 2 thousand people went through the station, most of them on their way to work. After 3 minutes a middle aged man noticed there was a musician playing. He slowed his pace and stopped for a few seconds and then hurried to meet his schedule.
4 minutes later:

the violinist received his first dollar: a woman threw the money in the till and, without stopping, continued to walk.
6 minutes:

A young man leaned against the wall to listen to him, then looked at his watch and started to walk again.

10 minutes:

A 3 year old boy stopped but his mother tugged him along hurriedly, as the kid stopped to look at the violinist. Finally the mother pushed hard and the child continued to walk, turning his head all the time. This action was repeated by several other children. Every parent, without exception, forced them to move on.
45 minutes:

Only 6 people stopped and stayed for a while. About 20 gave him money but continued to walk their normal pace.
He collected $32.
1 hour:

He finished playing and silence took over. No one noticed. No one applauded, nor was there any recognition.

No one knew this but the violinist was Joshua Bell, one of the best musicians in the world. He played one of the most intricate pieces ever written, with a violin worth $3.5 million dollars. Two days before Joshua Bell sold out a theater in Boston where the seats averaged $100.
This is a real story. Joshua Bell playing incognito in the metro station was organized by the Washington Post as part of a social experiment about perception, taste and people’s priorities. The questions raised: in a common place environment at an inappropriate hour, do we perceive beauty? Do we stop to appreciate it? Do we recognize talent in an unexpected context?
One possible conclusion reached from this experiment could be:
If we do not have a moment to stop and listen to one of the best musicians in the world playing some of the finest music ever written, with one of the most beautiful instruments ….

How many other things are we missing?