Week 3

SO.  Less than a week until my jury.  How is this happening so fast?!  I fee like I'm less prepared for this recital jury than I was for my Junior one.  Though my jury for my Junior recital was about a month later than this one.  I'm trying not to let the stress from everything get to me but it's been tricky.  Unrelated stress is causing the most havoc.  Still, I know that when the time comes I will be ready.  4 more songs left to do for program notes which I view as a good step in the right direction.  Practicing this week was productive.  I worked mostly on the new songs and all the little spots that are tripping me up.  On a good note, my eye has pretty much stopped twitching!  It had been going for about 3 days.  The potassium trick worked!  Now I've jinxed it...

Week 2

What a strange week.  After getting snowed in Monday night (I didn't get to go home and sleep in my actual bed until Wednesday night), I spent a large amount of my 'practice' time off campus working on memorization!  All of the English is done and hopefully ready for work with Mr. Phil.  The new french piece is actually coming along nicely.  Better than I thought anyways.  I had forgotten how much I don't really care for writing program notes.  They're nice to look back on and as an audience member I always read through them.  So I will use that thought as my inspiration and threaten my friends and family with bodily harm if they don't read them.    On a happy note, I get to go home this weekend!!!!!!!

January 24th-28th

This week was a fairly good one for me as far as how practicing and lessons went.  My rehearsal with Mr. Phil really helped me to get a handle on how some of the trickier parts of my new songs went.  Even the Alleluia is coming along fairly well. There are only a few places that the 7/8 timing is tripping me up.  I'm a little worried about putting it with the accompaniment, but not too much.  For some strange reason, memorization is kicking my butt this time around.  Usually it's the easiest part for me but now it's just not coming easily.  I'll just have to spend more time this week concentrating on lyrics and meanings outside of the practice room.