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ewtI've found out that Dartington library has some intarweb. It's very slow, but it goes. It's only actually open during times when it's difficult for me to get to the library to use it, though; I don't think I'll be online again before Friday. There are only three computers for several hundred students, so use is limited to 20 minutes when there is a queue. And I don't think I can really commit to keeping up with any reading, not in any serious way.
My rehearsal schedule is not quite as gruelling as it was when I was here in 2004, and for this I am grateful. The food is good, except that staying at the Foxhole Centre we only get protein with breakfast every other day; eating some almonds is helping me with this, but it means some of my mornings are very sleepy.
The grounds are beautiful. The mulberry tree is fruiting heavily. The playing field near Foxhole that has apple trees in it, um, has apple trees in it, and some of the apples are dessert varieties, wonderful for eating straight from the tree. And I've found a plum tree or two and eaten plums. There is water mint and it is delicious. The hazelnuts I gathered were hollow with no nuts in them, which is annoying.
And I've seen three bunnies and this morning I saw a frog, quite a large one... I got a picture but I don't know if it'll turn out. There are lots of huge dragonflies. I've been making friends with a small black cat with a red collar that hangs around Foxhole, it's very friendly.
I've been doing some handhorn workshops with Sue Dent, probably the finest handhorn player in the UK. I'm liking handhorn very much. At least part of the reason for that is that it's so much lighter than my horn, because you don't need all the spare tubing all the time... I'd be interested in getting some more practise at it, maybe getting a handhorn. What else? Played a Brahms lied in a masterclass yesterday, not my best technical performance ever (I'd been playing for 3 hours continuously already and was a bit tired) but musically good. And it's good to find out that yes, I can close my eyes while I'm playing, I don't need to worry about it, just be myself and things will work. I mean, I knew that, but some people have this thing about keeping your eyes open to make the audience feel included. I think it probably depends very much upon the performer. What else? Bashed through the Brahms horn trio yesterday morning, might have a repeat of that tomorrow but I'm not sure if I can quite be bothered with it as I can't have the same violinist and yet more sightreading isn't really waht I'm looking for. Three different chamber groups - Mozart Serenade for 13 Winds, Mozart C Minor Serenade for wind octet, and a piece by Olav Franzen based on excerpts from the Mozart Requiem. I'm a bit tired of the 13 Winds, and I'm playing exactly the same part in it that I was playing last time I was here, which is a little annoying.
Tomorrow morning I think I'm going to go into Totnes and have a brief look around. I don't really have a chance in the afternoons at all, and everything will be shut by evening. I'll have to leave nice and early and walk fast in order to be back in time for the horn classes at 11am but that's okay.
I've been getting up early every day (instead of snoozing forever), and I don't seem to be significantly more tired from it than I would be from hitting the snooze button for an hour. That said, I'm not sleeping very well at night - not sure whether it's the bed, or people getting back late, or what - but I'm really wanting to get a good night's rest at some point, and it hasn't happened yet, and I'm worried I'll go back to London and need a few days to recover.
HELF: I want to be in the soloist competition that Haverhill Sinfonia put on. To do this, I need to send them a recording of my playing, and it needs to get there by 24th August. I'm going to be back in London on 14th August. Can anyone help with either accompanying or recording or both? I want to play Die Mainacht(sp?), by Brahms, and a piece called Scherzo Concertante by Nelhybel - piano part not physically too difficult to play but you need to have very good rhythm. And I'll play some solo Bach, which I don't need an accompanist for ;P. If I get in I'll also need an accompanist for the actual competition, although if necessary I can use the one they provide; don't worry, no Hindemith.
I failed to get the nice oboe-playing GP person to sign passport stuff so I'll need to organise other things.![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
ksta, I might phone you when I get back to try to arrange to meet with your mum.
Argh I'm way over my time limit. And still have things to look up!
My rehearsal schedule is not quite as gruelling as it was when I was here in 2004, and for this I am grateful. The food is good, except that staying at the Foxhole Centre we only get protein with breakfast every other day; eating some almonds is helping me with this, but it means some of my mornings are very sleepy.
The grounds are beautiful. The mulberry tree is fruiting heavily. The playing field near Foxhole that has apple trees in it, um, has apple trees in it, and some of the apples are dessert varieties, wonderful for eating straight from the tree. And I've found a plum tree or two and eaten plums. There is water mint and it is delicious. The hazelnuts I gathered were hollow with no nuts in them, which is annoying.
And I've seen three bunnies and this morning I saw a frog, quite a large one... I got a picture but I don't know if it'll turn out. There are lots of huge dragonflies. I've been making friends with a small black cat with a red collar that hangs around Foxhole, it's very friendly.
I've been doing some handhorn workshops with Sue Dent, probably the finest handhorn player in the UK. I'm liking handhorn very much. At least part of the reason for that is that it's so much lighter than my horn, because you don't need all the spare tubing all the time... I'd be interested in getting some more practise at it, maybe getting a handhorn. What else? Played a Brahms lied in a masterclass yesterday, not my best technical performance ever (I'd been playing for 3 hours continuously already and was a bit tired) but musically good. And it's good to find out that yes, I can close my eyes while I'm playing, I don't need to worry about it, just be myself and things will work. I mean, I knew that, but some people have this thing about keeping your eyes open to make the audience feel included. I think it probably depends very much upon the performer. What else? Bashed through the Brahms horn trio yesterday morning, might have a repeat of that tomorrow but I'm not sure if I can quite be bothered with it as I can't have the same violinist and yet more sightreading isn't really waht I'm looking for. Three different chamber groups - Mozart Serenade for 13 Winds, Mozart C Minor Serenade for wind octet, and a piece by Olav Franzen based on excerpts from the Mozart Requiem. I'm a bit tired of the 13 Winds, and I'm playing exactly the same part in it that I was playing last time I was here, which is a little annoying.
Tomorrow morning I think I'm going to go into Totnes and have a brief look around. I don't really have a chance in the afternoons at all, and everything will be shut by evening. I'll have to leave nice and early and walk fast in order to be back in time for the horn classes at 11am but that's okay.
I've been getting up early every day (instead of snoozing forever), and I don't seem to be significantly more tired from it than I would be from hitting the snooze button for an hour. That said, I'm not sleeping very well at night - not sure whether it's the bed, or people getting back late, or what - but I'm really wanting to get a good night's rest at some point, and it hasn't happened yet, and I'm worried I'll go back to London and need a few days to recover.
HELF: I want to be in the soloist competition that Haverhill Sinfonia put on. To do this, I need to send them a recording of my playing, and it needs to get there by 24th August. I'm going to be back in London on 14th August. Can anyone help with either accompanying or recording or both? I want to play Die Mainacht(sp?), by Brahms, and a piece called Scherzo Concertante by Nelhybel - piano part not physically too difficult to play but you need to have very good rhythm. And I'll play some solo Bach, which I don't need an accompanist for ;P. If I get in I'll also need an accompanist for the actual competition, although if necessary I can use the one they provide; don't worry, no Hindemith.
I failed to get the nice oboe-playing GP person to sign passport stuff so I'll need to organise other things.
ksta, I might phone you when I get back to try to arrange to meet with your mum.Argh I'm way over my time limit. And still have things to look up!
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Date: 2006-08-09 02:57 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2006-08-18 12:40 pm (UTC)Seems to say it does Mac.
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Date: 2006-08-18 01:51 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-08-09 06:41 pm (UTC)Nice to see you're not entirely cut off from the real world.
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Date: 2006-08-18 12:33 pm (UTC)if you have a good microfone for your comp:
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
that might come in handy for the recording?
("Die Mainacht" is written correctly ;o) )