soooooooooooo wittenberg has a snow day today! these people down in southern ohio have a system for snow - level one through level three. it's at a level two right now, meaning you're not supposed to be on the roads unless absolutely necessary. and just my luck, i had to get up to take a quiz this morning. it was terrible - the new snow is covering the ice that was melting, so all that refroze and made things slick, plus the snow. but really, i'm not complaining. i love snow, and now that i don't have to be out in it - ! my three other classes (well two classes and band) were cancelled today, so i have literally layed in my room since like 12. lol. i have a few things homework-wise to catch up on. and i also am going to sort through the music on my computer and organize it better, along with putting some more cd's on here too. i realized last night that there are like 5 cds i own that i've never even listened to. mostly classical music, but hey, i'm a music nerd, it's alright. kind of hoping tomorrow school will be cancelled; they said if it gets to a level three emergency tomorrow they'll cancel classes. but unless we get more snow (we're only supposed to get a little) i doubt it will happen. do you remember when in elementary school we put our clothes on inside out to bring good luck for a snow day? my roommate reminded me of that last night and i'm contemplating it!
oooh! good news! i got three out of four "pass with distinctions" on my trumpet jury from last semester. if you don't know what a jury is, basically music majors (or anyone taking lessons) has to prepare a piece (for instrumentalists it's only one - vocalists have between 4 and 8 i believe). and you go in and play your prepared piece. people work their asses off because it's the culmination of the entire semester of work. in mine they also asked me to play some scales. it's kind of like a final for lessons. anyway, i went in there last semester just really excited to play my piece - it's an arrangement of a trumpet solo for Someone To Watch Over Me by Gershwin. lauren, since she's a jazz singer, came in to sing with me also. my trumpet teacher showed me the evaluations yesterday and 80% of them were good. i know there are still things i need to work on. and at the bottom of the evaluation sheet the profs put either pass, pass with distinction or fail. and three out of four of the professors that listened to me gave me a pass with distinction!! huzzah!!! i know it might not seem like a lot... but i have been working hard on trumpet because i'm kind of behind. i didn't start playing until the 8th grade, while there are people who have played since 4th or 5th grade... so some of the technical stuff is still a challenge for me. i'm not trying to make excuses, really. i'm just saying that i've had to work harder, and i finally got something to show for it.
speaking of things to show for it - i am the only one (besides olivia because i don't know what she got) who got above a C on our recent music theory test. somehow i pulled a 92% out of my ass. :D
and another funny thing - i am being fought over by two professors to be their faculty aide next year :P it's between dr. kazez and dr. jones. dr. k drives me nuts sometimes because his teaching style... doesn't mesh with mine. but i really do like him as a person, i think he's got a hilarious sense of humor. and recently he asked me if i would be his faculty aide next year. it's contingent on whether his current aide gets the r.a. position she wants (but i'm 99% sure she'll get it) so i won't find out until march if he wants me to work for him or not. and the other one, dr. jones, is the band director and in charge of the instrumental side of music education. he's pretty cool, pretty chill. i've had him for i think three classes now. he's probably sick of lauren, rachel and i by now, haha. we're the only music ed. majors that aren't seniors, and since all the seniors are student teaching this semester, they aren't taking classes. so it's just the three of us goobers in all these classes! but he needs someone to take over the manager position for symphonic band next year, because the other music ed. major, ben, is a senior and won't be here next year. so he needs someone else, obviously. dr. jones called dibs. i'm going to have to tell them to fight over me! i already agreed to kazez, but i have an obligation to jones. so we'll see how it goes. i might even be able to do both, because jones's is only a couple of hours a week. eh, we'll see.
i got to see a really amazing pianst last night. he was a colleague of dr. d's, they went to graduate school at USC together. he was absolutely amazing. played bach, brahms, grieg, liszt, and gershwin. i now feel totally incompetent. i am so lucky to be here where i can be exposed to such talents like that guy. man oh man.
24 days till i'm home for spring break!
soundtrack:
wierd fishes/arpeggi - radiohead
lovestoned - justin timberlake
the end of all you'll know - scott matthews
daughters of texas - united states army band
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