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double dare 6-5-'o1: 3:37pm and that's it. last night was the last concert of the year. it felt like it was two seconds long. which is freakishly unnatural, seeing that we did 10 tunes. conducting was quite a rush. i promised myself before i did my speech that i wouldn't say "um" and stammer...but once i got up there, my main concern was NOT falling over. i've never had my legs shake so much in my life. and it's not even like i was actively nervous...i was just shaking. like it was a reflex. like how my hand shakes when i conduct in rehersal, even though i'm perfectly comfortable with what i'm doing. it's irritating. i have been assured, however, that it goes away. anyway...i've been told by about five people that the piece made their moms cry. what a compliment! i started the piece the day that our principal died, and in it was trying to capture the different feelings of the people around me that day. people were always hesitant to say "i enjoyed your piece"...and i assured them that was alright. because it wasn't realy a piece to be enjoyed, y'know? the orchestra played it beautifully, though, which made up for my stammering speech beforehand. and sheli and kiri lightened up the mood directly afterward by doing their duet...where they bow each other's instruments. it was tastefully done. and at the end, we got a standing ovation. i don't even think the wind ensemble got a standing ovation two weeks ago. it was a great last concert. today was pretty regular. we voted on the instrumental music awards today...it was tough. i knew who i wanted to get all the awards, but i didn't know who to give what. it took me forever to fill the sheets out. "you're a little late" is what john said when i turned mine in. he gave me crap all day. take, for instance, when i left. "good evening...or afternoon...or whatever." "is that goodbye?" "yes, it is goodbye. i AM leaving." [ looks at his watch in a exaggerated manner, looks back at me with a look of mock amazement ] "congratualtions." what a funny guy! not like i don't deserve it or anything, though. yesterday, i had lessons, so i was there until 4:15pm or so doing that. THEN, i was talking to russ and jed in practice c. russ was waiting for jed to finish some timpani parts on sibelius because [ ironically ] the timpani parts for the symphony music got left at southridge for some reason. i was bored, they were entertaining. i shouldn't have gotten sucked into their evil trap, though...jed had to drive russ to richland and then go to a rehersal, and the timpani part for overture to rienzi wasn't done. guess who got suckered into it? riiiight. "you're too nice," lane said. i got more congratulations when i got home this afternoon, though. i came home to find a letter from the EWU music department...i have been awarded a $1500 renewable scholarship! yaaaay! this makes me unbelievably happy. i'm really glad i decided to go there. yesterday haug also came in and announced the recipients of the yearly academic music awards. i got one. i'm happy, because last year i got one as well and they have shiny stickers on them. so that's tomorrow...the senior dinner and all. i'll get that award and...whatever merrick isn't telling me. i'm almost scared. tonight is baccalaureate...i'm going to that as well. get to hear erik rap on "joyful, joyful"....hahaha. that's the best. "dance on a volcano" is an awesome song. i am going to arrange this for marching band. i dare myself. ←/ b a c k w a r d / f o r w a r d /→ |
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