This morning at four A.M. my family and I returned from Cooperstown, North Dakota, where we gave a fundraising concert for the Cooperstown Museum, as well as a memorial for my step-Grandfather who passed away two years ago. My sister Rachel, Daniel Montoya (her boyfriend), and I sang popular, country, and folk music, and Rachel and I played some classical piano pieces on an 1863 rectangular Steinway grand piano. It was an intense weekend...it is a ten hour drive from Billings to Cooperstown. And then a ten-hour drive back again. But it was a good experience. I improvised accompaniments for myself on some songs I hadn't performed before, like "Some Enchanted Evening," and "Red River Valley".
I'm thinking maybe to make some money when I move to San Francisco in August I might look for a job playing/singing at a restaurant. I think my improv skills are starting to be solid enough that I could be passable. It would force me to keep working on it regularly, as well, and expanding my song repertoire.
Do you know that in only one month I will move to San Francisco? And then I will live there for two (or at least two) full years. I feel so strange! But so happy. San Francisco has been very good to me so far.
Now to figure out what to do with the remaining month before I leave... I have a friend in Texas that wants to make some recordings of me, if I go down there. But I'm not sure if I want to take a couple of weeks right now when I am about to move, or if I should just stay here and practice and get ready for the placement exams and auditions I will have to take in August for the classes and ensembles at the conservatory. I also need to do some things like clean out my messy room, haha. Plus if I leave I will not be able to keep teaching my students who are taking lessons over the summer so I will lose money. But, on the other hand, I will have some good new recordings. My friend Matt was a recording engineer for the Fort Worth Symphony in Texas, so he knows what he is doing.
Lots to think about.
For now, I think I'm going to go practice some yoga.
I'm thinking maybe to make some money when I move to San Francisco in August I might look for a job playing/singing at a restaurant. I think my improv skills are starting to be solid enough that I could be passable. It would force me to keep working on it regularly, as well, and expanding my song repertoire.
Do you know that in only one month I will move to San Francisco? And then I will live there for two (or at least two) full years. I feel so strange! But so happy. San Francisco has been very good to me so far.
Now to figure out what to do with the remaining month before I leave... I have a friend in Texas that wants to make some recordings of me, if I go down there. But I'm not sure if I want to take a couple of weeks right now when I am about to move, or if I should just stay here and practice and get ready for the placement exams and auditions I will have to take in August for the classes and ensembles at the conservatory. I also need to do some things like clean out my messy room, haha. Plus if I leave I will not be able to keep teaching my students who are taking lessons over the summer so I will lose money. But, on the other hand, I will have some good new recordings. My friend Matt was a recording engineer for the Fort Worth Symphony in Texas, so he knows what he is doing.
Lots to think about.
For now, I think I'm going to go practice some yoga.
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