1 post tagged “eternal glory”

Madness, I tell you, madness!

It's that busy point in the semester.  Fortunately, I feel like things have been going well school-wise.  Yesterday I had my best piano lesson of the semester (quite possibly ever?) in which I actually had fun.  Normally I'm much too terrified and craptacular to enjoy myself.  But somehow practicing my ass off last week + taking the weekend off practicing turned into Madd Piano Skillz.  I managed to get my most difficult piece up to performance tempo--and by "performance tempo" I mean what will be my performance tempo.  The written tempo (and from the sound of it, the tempo in this recording) is quarter note = 160-172.  I shall be playing it somewhere between quarter note = 120 and 138.  (Partially because my Skillz aren't that Madd, but also because it does lose something at such a quick pace.)  Go ahead; have your 3 minutes of modern music for the week:

I've been working on this piece for an embarrassingly long time, and I can't tell you what a relief it was to sit down at a piano Monday and realize I could make it through at my Ultimate Goal tempo (132).  It was a further relief to go to my piano lesson and kick some ass on my Brahms piece too.  (I'll share that one as soon as I find my recording of it.)

Other good news is that I found out I was chosen as Senior Elite for the music department!  Nerd that I am, I squealed quite a bit.  I'll be sharing the award for Senior Elite in BM Performance with someone else (since, uh, I'm not performance), BUT I DON'T CARE.  I WIN THINGS.  YAY.  Also, my name goes on a plaque.  WHICH THE WORLD SHALL HAVE TO LOOK AT FOR CENTURIES TO COME.  (Which is why, at least in conversation with Brian, I have dubbed this honor my "Eternal Glory.")

Even better news regarding Senior Elite is that the ceremony is next Wednesday evening... and Brian just happens to be flying in that morning for a week-long stay.  After he watches me receive my ETERNAL GLORY Wednesday evening, we'll be celebrating the big Dos Años Friday.  And the Alabama Symphony just happens to be opening their new concert series for our school that night, so woot-to-the-woot.

The only thing that could make this week better is having an excellent composition lesson tomorrow; the past four (how sad is it that I've been counting?) have been great.  Let's hope I get some more good work done tonight.

And that's what's new in the Life of Joie.  ...Just thought I'd share.

Edit:  Graghla... the audio isn't working for me, not sure if everyone else is having that problem.  I bought it off iTunes... does that prevent things from being uploadable?  =(