tim and me
Friday, August 25, 2006
Wednesday, August 23, 2006
continuations
accompaniment on open day
a possible accompaniment gig resulting from accompaniment on open day
a free bag from open day
an early start to monday morning
not going to my elective class (don't worry, not for credit) on monday morning
a burnt finger
relative unproductivety after burning my finger
a free coffee voucher
a sausage sizzle
no RSA qualification
a successful mss event
ball on the way
MUSIC BALL is tomorrow!
a possible accompaniment gig resulting from accompaniment on open day
a free bag from open day
an early start to monday morning
not going to my elective class (don't worry, not for credit) on monday morning
a burnt finger
relative unproductivety after burning my finger
a free coffee voucher
a sausage sizzle
no RSA qualification
a successful mss event
ball on the way
MUSIC BALL is tomorrow!
Sunday, August 20, 2006
Das Verlassene Magdlein
Hugo Wolf, E. Morike Songs. No.7
Fruh, wann die Hahne krahn,
eh die Sternlein Schwinden
muss ich am Herde stehn
muss Feuer zunden.
Schon ist der Flammen Schein,
es psringen die Funken
ich schaue so darein,
in Leid versunken.
Plotzlich, da kommt es mir,
treuloser Knabe,
dass ich die Naht von dir getraumet habe.
Thrane auf Thranedann
stur zet hernietag herander
so kommt der Tag herran
o ging'er wieder!
Fruh, wann die Hahne krahn,
eh die Sternlein Schwinden
muss ich am Herde stehn
muss Feuer zunden.
Schon ist der Flammen Schein,
es psringen die Funken
ich schaue so darein,
in Leid versunken.
Plotzlich, da kommt es mir,
treuloser Knabe,
dass ich die Naht von dir getraumet habe.
Thrane auf Thranedann
stur zet hernietag herander
so kommt der Tag herran
o ging'er wieder!
excerpt
from Gian Carlo Menotti's 'The Old Maid and the Thief'.
'What a curse for a woman is a timid man (Steal me, sweet thief)'
Steal me, Oh, steal me, sweet thief,
for time's flight is stealing my youth
and the cares of life steal fleeting time
Steal me, thief, for life is brief
and full of theft and strife.
And then with furtive step
death comes and steals time and life.
O sweet thief, I praymake me die
before dark death steals her prey.
Steal my lips before they crumble to dust.
Steal my heart before death must.
Steal my cheeks before they're sunk and decayed
Steal my breath before it will fade.
Steal my lips, steal my heart,
steal my cheeks, steal, oh steal my breath
and make me die before death will steal her prey.
Oh, steal me!
For time's flight is stealing my youth.
'What a curse for a woman is a timid man (Steal me, sweet thief)'
Steal me, Oh, steal me, sweet thief,
for time's flight is stealing my youth
and the cares of life steal fleeting time
Steal me, thief, for life is brief
and full of theft and strife.
And then with furtive step
death comes and steals time and life.
O sweet thief, I praymake me die
before dark death steals her prey.
Steal my lips before they crumble to dust.
Steal my heart before death must.
Steal my cheeks before they're sunk and decayed
Steal my breath before it will fade.
Steal my lips, steal my heart,
steal my cheeks, steal, oh steal my breath
and make me die before death will steal her prey.
Oh, steal me!
For time's flight is stealing my youth.
Saturday, August 19, 2006
argh!
it kinda looked like this. 9am-7pm on thursday, thursday night tutes at 7.30 and 9.30 (an hour each). Friday lecture 10-12, rehearsal 12.30-2. Rehearsal 4-5.45. dinner at 7. practiced at about 10.45-12.15 (not incredibly productive though). today: meeting 11am, music practice for jude's 2.30, intercollegiate soiree (performance) at 7pm. Tomorrow:open day. rehearsal 11am, perform 11.40-12. help out with open day 12-4.30. was going to go to chapel (considering i am missing the rehearsal and all),but tha'ts at 6pm, but i have to be at jude's by 6.30 for a 7.30 service, will be busy till about 9.30ish.
i'm playing on melba hall stage three times in four days. and i'm not incredibly stressed just yet. just wait till it kicks in....
i'm playing on melba hall stage three times in four days. and i'm not incredibly stressed just yet. just wait till it kicks in....
orchestra
"The aim is to foster - musical - friendships. It's just kinda hard to foster friendships if there is nobody here. There's the whole first violin section - Gladys."
quote
"I can't - I've got rehearsal!"
This should be my life's little motto.
On the day where I had two hours of uni, yet spent only about one hour in my room during the day (if you can call it that). I spent about 3.5hrs in two rehearsals today though. Productive, just not towards one of the approximately ten bits of regular homework I must regularly do every week. (This exclues additional assignments).
This should be my life's little motto.
On the day where I had two hours of uni, yet spent only about one hour in my room during the day (if you can call it that). I spent about 3.5hrs in two rehearsals today though. Productive, just not towards one of the approximately ten bits of regular homework I must regularly do every week. (This exclues additional assignments).
a response
"Is there anything you want me to do to help out? Is there anything I can do?"
"Stay beautiful. And keep playing beautiful Debussy."
"Stay beautiful. And keep playing beautiful Debussy."
Thursday, August 17, 2006
my Concert Class, Melba Hall solo debut
Yep,it happened today.
I didn't go to mads turn last night. ohwell. that's what happens when you have an assignment due the next day, which also happens to be a very busy day (think: out 9am-7pm. and i live ON campus..) requirements: must submit assignment online as well. and have toactuallyschedule in time to physically hand in the assignment. (easier said than done)
so, the debut.
well, i page-turned for tom. so i'd been out there twice before i even got to play mybit.
the programme was thus:
Bec Proietto (cello): Bach Prelude and Allemande from Suite3
TomWilliams (pno): Mozart Piano Sonata K457 i
Emma Knight (flute): Jacob Flute Concerto i ii
Trevor Maitland (voice): Four Songs of Travel
Toby Goss (clarinet): Weber Clarinet concerto #2 i
Emily Blake (violin): Mozart Concerto in D i
Lydia Killerby (voice): Brahms Minen Liebe ist grun; Strauss Zueignung
Gladys Chua (pno): Debussy Bruyeres, Feux d'artifice
Tiffany Wong (cello): Elgar Cello Concerto iv
This programme was particularly interesting for anumber of reasons. Except for one student, the rest are all first or second years. Excellent.
A few concertos
Excellent repertoire for each respective instrument/voice
friends who played
acquaintances who played.
Mine went ok. Of course, having only one shot at it means that you always want to go back and fix it up! that's ok. The experience wasn't very torturous. i wasn't incredibly nervous, once I started. Then halfway through, i thought "why aren't I nervous? Come on! Get nervous..!" Then I was...probably not the best thought to have..!
Thanks to everybody who came along and watched/listened. The support is always valued.
Thanks for the comments - it makes playing for friends worth it!
To those that couldn't make it or otherwise - you missed out :) I only debut once..!
Anne, Samantha, Mimi, Emily, Freya, Jacquie, Kristen, Sam, Michael, My-Hong, Tristan, Tom, Trev, Lydia - thank you all for the congratulations, you have no idea how big my smile was :)
Sinfonia again was challenging - Stravinsky's Firebird Suite, Tchaikovsky 4 (thelast movement is akiller..!)
a big weekend ahead.....
Friday:
lecture 10-12
lunch
rehearsal with trio 12.30-afternoon
orchestra 4pm
7pm dinner appointment
Saturday:
wyvern meeting 11 (have deadlines i cannot complete...eek!)
2.30 jude's music
icac soiree
sunday:
open day
11am rehearsal with monique
11.40 performance with monique
help out with open day
missing choir, 2.30pm
chapel 6pm (probably missing)
playing at jude's, 6.30
jude's service, 7.30 - pete's baptism yay!
see? it's not shaping up very well....
I didn't go to mads turn last night. ohwell. that's what happens when you have an assignment due the next day, which also happens to be a very busy day (think: out 9am-7pm. and i live ON campus..) requirements: must submit assignment online as well. and have toactuallyschedule in time to physically hand in the assignment. (easier said than done)
so, the debut.
well, i page-turned for tom. so i'd been out there twice before i even got to play mybit.
the programme was thus:
Bec Proietto (cello): Bach Prelude and Allemande from Suite3
TomWilliams (pno): Mozart Piano Sonata K457 i
Emma Knight (flute): Jacob Flute Concerto i ii
Trevor Maitland (voice): Four Songs of Travel
Toby Goss (clarinet): Weber Clarinet concerto #2 i
Emily Blake (violin): Mozart Concerto in D i
Lydia Killerby (voice): Brahms Minen Liebe ist grun; Strauss Zueignung
Gladys Chua (pno): Debussy Bruyeres, Feux d'artifice
Tiffany Wong (cello): Elgar Cello Concerto iv
This programme was particularly interesting for anumber of reasons. Except for one student, the rest are all first or second years. Excellent.
A few concertos
Excellent repertoire for each respective instrument/voice
friends who played
acquaintances who played.
Mine went ok. Of course, having only one shot at it means that you always want to go back and fix it up! that's ok. The experience wasn't very torturous. i wasn't incredibly nervous, once I started. Then halfway through, i thought "why aren't I nervous? Come on! Get nervous..!" Then I was...probably not the best thought to have..!
Thanks to everybody who came along and watched/listened. The support is always valued.
Thanks for the comments - it makes playing for friends worth it!
To those that couldn't make it or otherwise - you missed out :) I only debut once..!
Anne, Samantha, Mimi, Emily, Freya, Jacquie, Kristen, Sam, Michael, My-Hong, Tristan, Tom, Trev, Lydia - thank you all for the congratulations, you have no idea how big my smile was :)
Sinfonia again was challenging - Stravinsky's Firebird Suite, Tchaikovsky 4 (thelast movement is akiller..!)
a big weekend ahead.....
Friday:
lecture 10-12
lunch
rehearsal with trio 12.30-afternoon
orchestra 4pm
7pm dinner appointment
Saturday:
wyvern meeting 11 (have deadlines i cannot complete...eek!)
2.30 jude's music
icac soiree
sunday:
open day
11am rehearsal with monique
11.40 performance with monique
help out with open day
missing choir, 2.30pm
chapel 6pm (probably missing)
playing at jude's, 6.30
jude's service, 7.30 - pete's baptism yay!
see? it's not shaping up very well....
Tuesday, August 15, 2006
ramblings
adventures to middle park. get on tram 112 from Collins st, get off at harold st, stop 137. Walk back,turn down the lane behind 310A. there awaits a cream town house, the residence of my piano teacher.
her baby is Elizabeth Patricia. newborns are fairly shrivelly. that's my opinion anyway.
an electric keyboard. good thing it's weighted. pity it wasn't a piano. oh well. at least it exposed all my technical problems. gotta look on the bright side.
broke my first piano string. 12 August, 2006. C one octave from the top. was playing debussy. evidently with too much force. 'tis amoment in history.
sang a fabulous piece in chapel yesterday - "There is a Land of Pure Delight" by Grayston Ives. Thoroughly modern with a twist of the old. Or perhaps the other way: traditional with a twist of moderness. spent an age talking to people at jude's last night. ran into a guy who happened to live in perth for a little while, one of flick's friends from med, actually born in malaysia. and get this, his mother comes from melaka. and his grandparents used to live in melaka. i wonder if our grandparents knew each other. i would assume so, considering my grandparents are those kinds of 'socialite' people.. :P (hah...my grandmother once appeared on the front of the local paper, in a picture taken of her and her morning group doing tai chi in the park). my friends spent an age trying to get me to shut up, stop talking to everybody and get me out the door!
OB assignment, hurridly completed in some form tonight so I could send it to my tutor. Pity it's quite over the word limit and I still want to add a bit more, but I'm not sure whether it's relevant, and I also have no idea which bits I should cut.
an early start to today. phone left charging overnight, thought it'd be smart and turn itself off. lucky i woke up to realise this, saw the time as 6.15am and felt quite proud that i hadn't overslept or that i managed to wake up without my alarm (ok, so it was in shock. that's beside the point) alarm went off at 6.18am. hit snooze too many times, but still managed to have shower, get dressed and start practicing by just past 7am. not a bad effort. managed to practice about 4.5hrs today. am very proud of myself. my fingers hurt though (well, just my right index, because i'm developing a blister from playing debussy). am getting a bit frustrated with ravel at the present moment, but hopefully it's improving.
went to see benaud trio play in the lunchtime concert today. they were great. i really wish i could get a piano trio together. when we'd rehearse is a different matter. they played tchaikovsky's piano trio in a minor, op.50. interesting piano class too. discussing franck and faure. on my way coming home, ran into some people i knew. it's nice to run into friends at uni, whether they're college friends or not. came home and practiced more. dinner. work (study). more practice. it's almost holistic to do so much practice. draining though. incredibly. i have a sore wrist (long-standing ailment) and a blister (will goafter i stopplaying Debussy's Feux d'artifice)
am playing in concert class this thursday (1st yrs). playing 2 debussy preludes: Bruyeres and Feux d'artifice (thus the practice).
have also got roped in to accompanying a singer on open day, this sunday.
anne asked me to do it. i don't know why i agreed. probably because i'd really like to do accompanying. the more experience, the better is my philosophy. until i called up the singer (a 4th yr singer) and was told that we're presenting a 17-19 minute recital. that equates here to six new pieces in fourdays! excellent...we did pick the easierones, so some are easy, some aren't that easy. should be interesting.
will be having killer ofa week (killer -> very very busy). thursday isn't shaping up to be very good. might have to forgo themads turn. it's just a thing that can't be avoided. oh well. what can you do when you're nutty likeme?
and i should go to bed soon..it's been a very long day and i'm exhausted mentally.....
her baby is Elizabeth Patricia. newborns are fairly shrivelly. that's my opinion anyway.
an electric keyboard. good thing it's weighted. pity it wasn't a piano. oh well. at least it exposed all my technical problems. gotta look on the bright side.
broke my first piano string. 12 August, 2006. C one octave from the top. was playing debussy. evidently with too much force. 'tis amoment in history.
sang a fabulous piece in chapel yesterday - "There is a Land of Pure Delight" by Grayston Ives. Thoroughly modern with a twist of the old. Or perhaps the other way: traditional with a twist of moderness. spent an age talking to people at jude's last night. ran into a guy who happened to live in perth for a little while, one of flick's friends from med, actually born in malaysia. and get this, his mother comes from melaka. and his grandparents used to live in melaka. i wonder if our grandparents knew each other. i would assume so, considering my grandparents are those kinds of 'socialite' people.. :P (hah...my grandmother once appeared on the front of the local paper, in a picture taken of her and her morning group doing tai chi in the park). my friends spent an age trying to get me to shut up, stop talking to everybody and get me out the door!
OB assignment, hurridly completed in some form tonight so I could send it to my tutor. Pity it's quite over the word limit and I still want to add a bit more, but I'm not sure whether it's relevant, and I also have no idea which bits I should cut.
an early start to today. phone left charging overnight, thought it'd be smart and turn itself off. lucky i woke up to realise this, saw the time as 6.15am and felt quite proud that i hadn't overslept or that i managed to wake up without my alarm (ok, so it was in shock. that's beside the point) alarm went off at 6.18am. hit snooze too many times, but still managed to have shower, get dressed and start practicing by just past 7am. not a bad effort. managed to practice about 4.5hrs today. am very proud of myself. my fingers hurt though (well, just my right index, because i'm developing a blister from playing debussy). am getting a bit frustrated with ravel at the present moment, but hopefully it's improving.
went to see benaud trio play in the lunchtime concert today. they were great. i really wish i could get a piano trio together. when we'd rehearse is a different matter. they played tchaikovsky's piano trio in a minor, op.50. interesting piano class too. discussing franck and faure. on my way coming home, ran into some people i knew. it's nice to run into friends at uni, whether they're college friends or not. came home and practiced more. dinner. work (study). more practice. it's almost holistic to do so much practice. draining though. incredibly. i have a sore wrist (long-standing ailment) and a blister (will goafter i stopplaying Debussy's Feux d'artifice)
am playing in concert class this thursday (1st yrs). playing 2 debussy preludes: Bruyeres and Feux d'artifice (thus the practice).
have also got roped in to accompanying a singer on open day, this sunday.
anne asked me to do it. i don't know why i agreed. probably because i'd really like to do accompanying. the more experience, the better is my philosophy. until i called up the singer (a 4th yr singer) and was told that we're presenting a 17-19 minute recital. that equates here to six new pieces in fourdays! excellent...we did pick the easierones, so some are easy, some aren't that easy. should be interesting.
will be having killer ofa week (killer -> very very busy). thursday isn't shaping up to be very good. might have to forgo themads turn. it's just a thing that can't be avoided. oh well. what can you do when you're nutty likeme?
and i should go to bed soon..it's been a very long day and i'm exhausted mentally.....
Friday, August 11, 2006
Stuff you may or may not know...
Thanks to Mel for this one...it's been ages since I did one of these!
Four things about me - Things you may or may not have known about me in
no particular order:
(a) Four jobs I have had in my life -
1. Violin tutor
2. Accompanist
3. Typist (data entry)
4. Musician (for functions)
(b) Four movies I could watch over and over....
1. Shrek & Shrek 2
2. Pirates of the Caribbean (1 & 2)
3. Not sure
4. I'm sure I could have come up with two more, but considering I've technically listed four already, that should do...Hey, Finding Nemo should be on here...so should Ocean's 11. There we go, that's two extra. Although there are others, I think, that should be on here too...maybe I am Sam also.
(c) Four Places I've Lived -
1. Subang Jaya, KL, Malaysia
2. Perth, WA, Australia
3. Middlebury, CT, USA
4. Parkville, VIC, Australia
(d) Four TV shows I love to watch -
1. Scrubs
2. House
3. One Tree Hill
4. Gilmore Girls
(e) Four places I have been on vacation -
1. Montreal, Canada
2. Malaysia (including Langkawi) and Singapore
3. USA (around east coast)
4. Sydney
(f) Websites I visit daily -
1. Hotmail
2. QI news
3. Uni email
4. www.facebook.com
(g) Four of my favourite foods -
1. Chocolate (and su8gar in general..)
2. Noodles
3. orange (or lemon) and poppyseed cake/muffins etc.
4. Biscuits
(h) Four places I would rather be right now -
1. London (cousins)
2. USA (visit friends), more specifically, Boston as well....(just one of those places I could really see myself in...)
3. France (studying French music)
4. Manchester, UK (also a place I think I could see myself in...)
Four things about me - Things you may or may not have known about me in
no particular order:
(a) Four jobs I have had in my life -
1. Violin tutor
2. Accompanist
3. Typist (data entry)
4. Musician (for functions)
(b) Four movies I could watch over and over....
1. Shrek & Shrek 2
2. Pirates of the Caribbean (1 & 2)
3. Not sure
4. I'm sure I could have come up with two more, but considering I've technically listed four already, that should do...Hey, Finding Nemo should be on here...so should Ocean's 11. There we go, that's two extra. Although there are others, I think, that should be on here too...maybe I am Sam also.
(c) Four Places I've Lived -
1. Subang Jaya, KL, Malaysia
2. Perth, WA, Australia
3. Middlebury, CT, USA
4. Parkville, VIC, Australia
(d) Four TV shows I love to watch -
1. Scrubs
2. House
3. One Tree Hill
4. Gilmore Girls
(e) Four places I have been on vacation -
1. Montreal, Canada
2. Malaysia (including Langkawi) and Singapore
3. USA (around east coast)
4. Sydney
(f) Websites I visit daily -
1. Hotmail
2. QI news
3. Uni email
4. www.facebook.com
(g) Four of my favourite foods -
1. Chocolate (and su8gar in general..)
2. Noodles
3. orange (or lemon) and poppyseed cake/muffins etc.
4. Biscuits
(h) Four places I would rather be right now -
1. London (cousins)
2. USA (visit friends), more specifically, Boston as well....(just one of those places I could really see myself in...)
3. France (studying French music)
4. Manchester, UK (also a place I think I could see myself in...)
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