I actually just got back from a 2 ish week camp called YMA (Young Musicians and Artists), held on the Willamette campus (I've officially decided not to apply to Willamette...I need change). Anyways...I roomed with Jenny and Julia, which was often. I'm pretty sure we had more food than clothes (which is saying something) and we only got 4 clean room tickets out of the 12 possible (Jenny got 3...haha). Another sad story, this was the first time I've ever auditioned for anything (it's true, but it went pretty well I guess). My favorite thing about YMA was being in a symphony where everyone can actually play their instrument and has personally chosen to come and join. I really loved the choice of music too. In the symphony we played Rossini's Overture to the Barber of Seville, Prelude and Mazurka from Coppelia, and the fourth movement of the Brahms Symphony No. 1. Although I wished we would have had more time to put everything together, it was an amazing experience. Then in the advanced, but smaller symphonic group, the Connoisseur's Orchestra I was concertmistress (probably because my amazing stand partner, concertmaster in symphony, was playing the Lalo concerto with the group). Nevertheless it was a really exciting experience to play under the direction of Huw Edwards (basically the coolest british man you will ever meet). My favorite piece we played in Connoisseur's was Mendelssohn's Hebrides Overture. We also played Copland's Down a Country Lane and accompanied the Lalo Symphonie Espagnole, Elgar Cello Concerto, a J. C. Bach Viola Concerto, and the Stamitz Viola Concerto (I also decided that violists shouldn't have concertos...). So the music was a lot of fun, but so was the free time, group bonding, and just meeting a bunch of new people. It was exactly the summer experience I was looking for, and I'm so glad I went to YMA. Not to mention that I felt super inspired to come home and practice a lot (until I tried to play the Rode Caprice I so happily left for 2 weeks).
It finally actually feels like summer now which means that:
I wake up in the afternoon.
I do nothing.
and I eat (i guess this is constant year round).
and Junior year seems to have finally come to an end:
my grades came (partyyyy).
and my APUSH score came (partyyyyy).
and my SAT scores came (partyyyyy).
Last update:
The Lakers signed Ron Artest and traded Trevor Ariza to the Rockets: I don't know how I feel about this...Ariza was one of my favorite players and Artest is such a jerk. We'll see I guess...
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