Concert Ad

The conservatory sent out this info about my concert in the "February Concert Highlights" email:


It's coming fast!  Andrew Mogrelia is leaving his position at the conservatory after this, and the concert I will play on is the last performance he will give as conductor of the SFCM orchestra. 


Conservatory Orchestra
Andrew Mogrelia, music director
Jacquelyn Weitz, piano

For his valedictory performances as music director of the Conservatory Orchestra, Andrew Mogrelia has chosen a dazzling program of orchestral favorites: Berlioz’s festive Roman Carnival Overture, Ravel’s Piano Concerto in G Major featuring pianist Jacquelyn Weitz and Sibelius’s magisterial Symphony No. 7 in C Major, Op. 105.

Saturday, February 11, 8 p.m., Concert Hall, $20/$15
Sunday, February 12, 2 p.m., Concert Hall, $20/$15
Café Crème open for concessions before performances and at intermission.

Applications

Sometimes it seems like I will never be done filling out applications... applications to schools, applications to competitions, applications for scholarships, applications for jobs, applications for everything.   But it's a necessary process, if I ever want to go anywhere,  or do anything.  

I am almost finished now with an application for BYU.  I decided to apply there for a Voice Master's as well, in addition to the San Francisco Conservatory.  My audition for BYU, if I get one, will be on February 26th, the weekend after my audition in San Francisco.   So much waiting and anticipation, always!  

That's all for tonight...

Goodnight! 

What to Wear?

Okay - so for my concert with the SFCM orchestra in February, I ordered a custom-sewn dress (made to my measurements) from a dress shop in China, but it didn't turn out to be quite what I wanted.   The color of the dress was supposed to be hunter green, but instead it is kind of minty, pale green (which for some reason with my skin tone makes me look really pale and kind of sickly).  And even though the dress is sewn to my measurements, somehow it fits a little big on me.  And when I sit at the piano, the sleeves fall down off my shoulders... which would not be good in a concert.   It is pretty though, but I just don't know if I want to try to make it work for this.  You can see in the close-up pictures how it's just a little lumpy.        Sooooo...

    What to do?  I have a dress that is identical to the blue-green one that I wore for my recital this spring, except it is all white.  I might where that one.   Or I have a red one that my mom would need to do a little altering on... (fortunately she is good at that).  But somehow I don't know if red is quite the right color for the Ravel concerto, or maybe just not for this performance, I don't know. 

Anyway, I guess I'll figure it out.  I'll have to where something, after all!

New reflections

New post on reflections...   "Knock and it Shall be Opened"

... me and my quest for perfect pitch.

http://jacquelynsreflections.blogspot.com/2012/01/knock-and-it-shall-be-opened.html

Re-mastering

So I'm no recording engineer... but maybe if I keep making recordings of myself I'll end up becoming one by default. After talking to my friend, Matt Bowers, from Texas (who really is a recording engineer), he gave me some tips and ideas about how to clean up and bring out the piano sound on my song a little better. So here is the video again, with the piano like you hadn't heard it before:

And just in case you want to compare it to the previous recording, here it is: