1. Taking 16 hours. 16 hours might not seem like a lot, but with time spent practicing/composing, concerts, preparing for my senior recital/graduate school (see below), and not going insane, it is plenty to handle. Fortunately this will be my busiest semester before I graduate in spring '09.
2. Preparing for my senior recital. The concert will be this fall, but I am working very hard toward it now. I almost have all of my pieces selected and I have one of them (Warhammer) completed. Here's the rep in order:
- 2 Mexican Dances--Stout OR Baroque Suite--Levitan. I haven't figured out which piece I want to play.
- Eight pieces for Four Timpani (Movements VIII, II, V)--Carter
- Warhammer--McCarthy
- Rebonds B--Xenakis
- Sketches of Perseverance--Johnston. I am composing this multi-movement work for my mom.
- Rite of Passage--Monkman. This piece is a percussion concerto and definitely fits my approach to music in general.
-J
4 comments:
Good luck! And when/where is your concert?
I hope tomorrow goes well!
I found this entry searching for "marimba one" online, and I think I might go to Boston Conservatory for grad. school too. I still have two years.. I'm only a sophomore in college, but studying with Nancy Zeltsman would be amazing.. good luck :) And that's awesome about doing the Carter pieces.. my friend is doing a few of those for some Boston Youth Symphony thing (he's a 15 year old prodigy on percussion) and they're crazy.
HEY! You need to update!!!
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