Tag: attrition

Music and Livelihood

Byartsyhonker February 4, 2014 3 Comments
I am not going to be able to work as a performer for the rest of my life. There are a number of reasons for this, and none of them are up for discussion in this post, but my current strategy is not working and is unsustainable. However, I am a musician through and through: when I am not making music I am pretty miserable. So I've been thinking lately about how to make a living as a musician,...

New Year

Byartsyhonker January 2, 2011 0 Comments
Christmas has come (though it isn't gone yet -- not until Epiphany), the various services at church have gone well, my students are still on break, and so I am going away for a few days.I'm really, really looking forward to it. When I come back the "new" year must begin in earnest, nose back to the grindstone with teaching and rehearsals and practising and oh, some forms to fill out and send off...

Results, moving on and settling in…

Byartsyhonker August 5, 2009 0 Comments
Where to start?I got my degree. Specifically, I have been awarded a Bachelor of Music (Hons), Second Class Honours, Upper Division. In ordinary terms that's known as a 2:1 in the British system. I had a celebratory recital on 10th July. I'm listening to a recording now, to try and make a CD to hand on to someone who couldn't be there. It's interesting... a note in the Mozart that I had pegged as...

Final stretch

Byartsyhonker June 16, 2009 0 Comments
Over a month since posting, again!I have my end-of-degree recital on Tuesday next week. That's, er, a week from today. Right now, it's all about the practising. And the programme notes... sadly I'm not allowed to have a ghost writer for my programme notes! I'm hoping to get back to writing some more here when I have recovered from the recital.

Monday again…

Byartsyhonker October 6, 2008 0 Comments
...and I'm having "one of those days". I woke up with my head full of a bad cold, dithered around far too long before leaving the flat, only to get to Trinity and find no practise rooms until later in the day than I'd planned to stay, and my arranging class cancelled. I don't want to cancel my teaching, but if my voice continues to get worse and my general feeling of wooziness does not abate, I...