Here comes the weekend again…

Byartsyhonker May 16, 2008 0 Comments
I have been rather tired since Tuesday night's performance. Yesterday was quite good. I made some progress in my practising, which is always encouraging. I rehearsed the Brahms trio, and played a bit of jazz with the pianist when we had to switch rooms. I got an assignment handed in and had a useful horn lesson. Then I went home and made cookies, because I'd promised a dozen cookies each to...

TCM Soloists’ Competition Final

Byartsyhonker May 13, 2008 0 Comments
Just got back from the Trinity College of Music Soloists' Competition final. I want to write up what I remember while it's fresh, so please excuse the late-night incoherence.The programme was as follows:Johannes Mnich, PianoM Ravel - Piano Concerto in G majorHari Eustice, Tenor TromboneH Tomasi - Trombone ConcertoTadasuke Lijima, ViolinJ Brahms - Violin Concerto in D, Op. 77 All three candidates...

Come to the concert!

Byartsyhonker May 12, 2008 0 Comments
I'm playing 2nd horn in the Ravel and the Brahms in this concert tomorrow night. If nothing else it will give my low range a good workout. Trinity College of Music Soloists' Competition - FinalNicholas Cleobury conducts Trinity College of Music Symphony Orchestra as part of the 2008 Soloists' Competition Final. Three finalists compete for the College's most prestigious prize. This year's...

Saturday: Link Round-Up

Byartsyhonker May 10, 2008 1 Comment
My electric metronome, inherited from my father and probably older than I am, finally died this year. I keep hoping I'll be able to resurrect it with a magnifying glass and a soldering iron, but honestly? I don't have the time, and ought to just buy a new one. I'm quite taken with this little device but need to decide whether it would be incredibly useful, or whether I'd just lose it. Meanwhile...
Byartsyhonker May 9, 2008 0 Comments
The rest of this week proceeded much as it started: lots of rehearsals, paperwork, and some classes. Thursday morning I managed to get both the rehearsal venue and the rehearsal time wrong. Somewhat fortuitously, they cancelled each other out, so that when I arrived at the correct venue (expecting to be 15 minutes late because I went to the wrong place first), I was actually 75 minutes early....
Byartsyhonker May 7, 2008 0 Comments
It's been a busy week and it isn't even done yet.Monday I was teaching, then wandered around a bit and found a silk sari for £5 in a charity shop. That prompted me to come home and do some simple sewing, so I now have two new sarongs (hey, I said it was simple), lovely and cool for the hot weather. I was absolutely shattered, unsurprising after my late night on Sunday.Yesterday was a day of...

Splat

Byartsyhonker May 5, 2008 0 Comments
Today has been very, very long. I got up and taught and went on an impromptu picnic and taught some more and rehearsed and missed my last Northern Line tube toward home and messed about with night buses and ended up walking back from Bank with a semi-random person who turned out to be rather lovely. I'd do it all again except it would be nice not to have the hour or so of messing around on night...

The Show Must Go On

Byartsyhonker May 3, 2008 0 Comments
It goes without saying that one should always be on time for concerts if one is performing.I usually aim for arriving at the concert venue and being ready to play 30 to 60 minutes early, and also add 50% onto my expected journey time. I've not yet been late for a performance. At Sinfonia on Thursday night we had a problem. Our first horn player was stuck in traffic. This wasn't a huge problem for...

Is it any wonder I don’t post much?

Byartsyhonker May 1, 2008 0 Comments
I've not been posting so much this past week; between having a cold, finishing up the last bits of moving house and trying to keep up with paperwork I've been short on computer time.I've just come out of an information session with representatives of Impromptu Publishing, who publish Muso magazine. They will have a stall in the UNPLUGGED section of the forthcoming London International Music Show,...

I hab a code

Byartsyhonker April 29, 2008 0 Comments
Yesterday I didn't practise. I was far too coldified.Today I still feel like death warmed over, but managed to drag my sorry self in to Trinity anyway and got a good hour in before 9.30. Yay!I'm looking at repertoire for next year's final recital. It's going to be problematic, I think, because there is a 45-minute time limit, and I'd quite like to play more than 45 minutes' worth of music. Some...