There is always more to do... My concert went pretty well on Friday night. I sang three arias by Handel: Care Selve (from L'Allegro and Il Penseroso), Sweet Bird (from Atalanta), and Oh Had I Jubal's Lyre (from Joshua). Then I sang a Bach aria from "The Hunt" cantata: "Sheep May Safely Graze." My favorite part was performing with the flautists and harpsichordist. That was a lot of fun.
Now I am trying to frantically get ready for my audition at the University of Colorado in Boulder in only a week and a half. I have to play an hour's worth of music plus a cello sonata. I am re-auditioning for scholarships for their doctoral program. The nice thing is I am already definitely accepted into the program because I auditioned there last year and they accepted me, but I chose to defer my enrollment for one year so that I could go to the San Francisco Conservatory and get the Professional Studies Diploma. They said that if I choose to defer they cannot guarantee a scholarship, so I have to go and re-audition for scholarships and graduate assistantships now. My audition is on February 12th. I'm pretty nervous about it. I feel like I haven't had enough time to prepare for it with everything else that has been going on.
On Thursday this week I play a mini-concert for the governor of Montana, who is coming to San Francisco for a meeting with the "Montana Ambassadors". I am going to play "La Campanella" by Franz Liszt, and then I will have my "improvising-while-singing" debut! They wanted me to perform a song that was related to Montana, something country-western. So I am going to sing a song that Dan Seals and Marie Osmund performed as a duet, called "Meet me in Montana". I'm going to accompany myself on the piano with chords while I sing... just like Billy Joel! :-) I'm excited about that. It makes me happy because my improvising is getting so much better.... I would not have been able to do such a thing even a year ago.
But now I should go and get some sleep. I have a voice lesson with Jane early in the morning.
Goodnight!
Now I am trying to frantically get ready for my audition at the University of Colorado in Boulder in only a week and a half. I have to play an hour's worth of music plus a cello sonata. I am re-auditioning for scholarships for their doctoral program. The nice thing is I am already definitely accepted into the program because I auditioned there last year and they accepted me, but I chose to defer my enrollment for one year so that I could go to the San Francisco Conservatory and get the Professional Studies Diploma. They said that if I choose to defer they cannot guarantee a scholarship, so I have to go and re-audition for scholarships and graduate assistantships now. My audition is on February 12th. I'm pretty nervous about it. I feel like I haven't had enough time to prepare for it with everything else that has been going on.
On Thursday this week I play a mini-concert for the governor of Montana, who is coming to San Francisco for a meeting with the "Montana Ambassadors". I am going to play "La Campanella" by Franz Liszt, and then I will have my "improvising-while-singing" debut! They wanted me to perform a song that was related to Montana, something country-western. So I am going to sing a song that Dan Seals and Marie Osmund performed as a duet, called "Meet me in Montana". I'm going to accompany myself on the piano with chords while I sing... just like Billy Joel! :-) I'm excited about that. It makes me happy because my improvising is getting so much better.... I would not have been able to do such a thing even a year ago.
But now I should go and get some sleep. I have a voice lesson with Jane early in the morning.
Goodnight!
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