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...the wine & dine continues 5-16-'o1: 3:34pm y'know...nothing particularly bad happened today. so i got my rejection letter from the masonic lodge for the hinman scholarship. so what? i knew that was going to happen. why do i feel like absolute crap, then? as if i was expecting to get it or something. i mean...mary kept saying "you better get that scholarship!" and i was like "ha, i wont get it, no matter how much you want me to." and i was right. i think i've figured it out, though...i need to get over myself. yeah, i do so much for the music department. yeah. whatever. i'm like a stump...it's rooted to the ground, always there...but the only purpose it really serves is as an uncomfortable place for someone to sit. i did pass out my new orchestra piece, elegy for december, out to the orchestra. that was a rush...i've never heard anything outside of my solo stuff played by anything except for a synthesizer...so it was exciting. and it actually sounded great...considering it was the first time we'd ever played it and all. i can't wait to rehearse it a little more and record it. maybe conduct it. the rose bowl wine & dine continues...we had the press conference for all that stuff today. luckily, the marimba was set up at an angle so that the big drum blocked me from being on camera. i hate being on camera. i prettymuch nailed the piece [ abram's pursuit ], though. i have it memorized now, so that makes it a lot easier to play. i can watch the baton about 75% of the time...the other 25% are spot checks to make sure i hit the right notes. haha. right notes are good. i thought we sounded pretty good...john looked pretty nervous [ i would have been, too, if my first performance conducting the wind ensemble was in front of tv cameras. yikes! ], but still did a fabulous job conducting. all in all, a success...and i got a rose bowl pin! i was like....yesss! so now i have a pin and a poster. i am sooooo cool, right? and now, the burger feed is tonight. i have to go find my tickets. so i can get in and all. hee hee. all you can eat burgers and fries for $5, plus the lovely companionship of a large group of kennewick high music department personalities. and personalities we are. i got a message on the voice mail from the composition professor at eastern...he said he looked at my pieces and wants to talk to me about them. that could be a good thing or a bad thing, i imagine. it is too fricken cold in here. i'm shaking. what happened? it was like, 85o one day, and now it's just regular but it's freezing in my house. make up your goshdanged mind, weather! sheeeesh. my skin looks all purply. that's more funny than anything else, though... the orchestra fest last night was....mphhhaha. i'm sorry. i can see why the district wants to can it...i'm not saying that they should, because i know how cool it was when i was younger to play for everyone and hear the older kids...but the place is a zoo. and we captivated the audience with our striking rendition of x-jet from the x-men soundtrack. everyone scooted closer to the edge of their chair with every whole note...and when we finished, i don't think there was a dry eye in the audience. moving, gripping, life-altering. we moved mountians, kids. cue my mom saying: don't be facetious. ok. i better go find those tickets so i can get them and then go help set up for the burger feed. i'm happy because i don't have to go to 2nd hour tomorrow. thank you, dear Lord, for leading me in the right direction by telling me not to take the ib history test. oh yes. ←/ b a c k w a r d / f o r w a r d /→ |
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