My eyes are quitting on me. Lately, I have really hard time to see well with them. My contact lens don't seem to want to stay at the same place when I am tired. Eyes get really red and irritated with the contact lens that they tear constantly. I hope they get better by the time I need to drive home.
Students are improving at an unbelievable rate. They might not be ready to deliver great performances next Monday in their juries, but they are definitely playing at a different level from before. Who knows, they might surprise me next week. They are now all exploring different styles, different colors, different sounds, different characters, and different ideas. I hope that with one more semester of work, they will merge all these different things together and be able to deliver music with more ease and start to form their own ideas & imaginations. Currently, things might be either overly done, but hey, it is better to have something to work with than grow from nothing.
I hope we can catch the piano tuner today. I am really irritated by the fact that one of my students dropped the pencil inside of the piano from behind the piano cover. It is totally necessary to have someone to take it out before Friday's Schumann rehearsal. I don't want to hear the rattling and have to deal with slow action keys.
Peter is still teaching. I don't know how he can do so much teaching. I have about half of his load, and I am already dead tired... Well, that is not true. I do practice a lot during the break. Well, I definitely need to find a way to maintain my energy so I can keep playing and not damaging my hands, my brain, and my body...
Some of Schumann's music really can drive one into madness. There are dramatic passages with driven melody lines and fast running notes passages where the harmony changes are so intense and maddening that after my practicing, I ended with this hysterical almost uncontrollable mood. There are times I am almost scared to start practicing them. Am I crazy?
I started to work on the Ravel's Gaspard de la nuit again. I am re-learning it.. I can't believe that I learned it in 3 months while I was in school, and performed it. What was I thinking?? There are so much in the writing. The dark, magical creatures/characters of the first and last movements, the cold and daunting slow movements, I just love it. Unfortunately, I don't have too much time to spend on this work. Most of my time and energy has to be put into the chamber repertoire. However, I can't complain though. Schumann trios, quartet, & quintet are great also. I find myself lucky to be able to play these great works.
My sister had an interview yesterday. I hope it went well. I hope that she will find a job around where we live, so we will be close in location.
Ok, can I wait for an hour and half more before I died from boredom? My eyes are so tired that I can't practice anymore, I can't read either... I really want to go home now... Maybe Peter's last student will cancel his/her lesson?
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If you are wondering how I can handle many years of constantly staring at computer monitors.
I often just look away or keep a lot of bright lights on, if I notice my eye getting tired or need more lightning. taking a break and putting water in my eye also helps. Look at a lot of green stuff, like outside is pretty nice also.
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