Spring '08

The spring semester is in full swing, and I am definitely busy! Here is what I am up to:

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:

1. 2 Mexican Dances--Stout OR Baroque Suite--Levitan. I haven't figured out which piece I want to play.
2. Eight pieces for Four Timpani (Movements VIII, II, V)--Carter
   
3. Warhammer--McCarthy
4. Rebonds B--Xenakis
5. Sketches of Perseverance--Johnston. I am composing this multi-movement work for my mom.
6. Rite of Passage--Monkman. This piece is a percussion concerto and definitely fits my approach to music in general.
   

There is much more, but I don't feel like writing anymore. I'll have audio up for Warhammer very soon though...

-J