Well, change of plans... no Barkerville today. That's alright though, I was really just interested in the candy and amazingly huge (read: maggive) apple fritters that they sell there. However, Lazerslug's girlfriend informed me that they are made and sold in town as well, so I'm not so screwed out of good junk food after all! I'll be making a trip to the bakery shortly after breakfast, for 2nd breakfast.
We're gonna spend the day at Ten Mile Lake. Kinda like Park Lake, but bigger, cleaner, and more trees, and it has a playground. Closer to get to, as well. I'll have to practice first, however. I've spend the last three days working out 22 measures of an Ewazen piece I want to do for my grad recital. Been driving me nuts. One of those mind blocks, where I just can't seem to get it down exactly. But, you can't practice the wrong notes, gotta practice the right ones, so I've been doing it over, and over, and over, and over, and over, and over, and over, and over...
Gene thinks I should just do a disseration on Ewazen music. At the rate I'm going, I'll have played the all but one work for solo Bass Trombone, and I'm even looking at learning that one too. Scary thought, call myself an Ewazen specialist. I don't know, it's great music, I'll probably record the one that I played for the concerto competition last year. Really well written, and enjoyable for everyone listening and playing. His quintet music is spectacular, but bloody hard. I have not really listened too much to woodwind stuff, but from what I have heard, it is also written well. He really learns the instrument before setting out to write for it, because nothing is impossible to play, just hard to do. You don't say "how the fuck do I do that?" like you do with some other composers. You just realize that it'll take some work, and bang away at it for three or four days straight...
Anywho, 6 days of vacation left...
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- Well, I'm a bass trombone player with aspirations for greatness, but realistic ideas for what I can do in the music world. I like to use big words in general conversations, like a human thesaurus.
4 comments:
as my eyes glazed over while reading through your ewazen jaunt, i've realized perhaps i am more teacher than musician?????
glad your vacation is going extrememly relaxing but must admit looking forward to you guys coming back.
oh...fort mcloud has a sweet ass candy shop.
I love ewazen but I do have to admit that I don't like the piece that's named after all the various pubs-- boring.
Really? I like that one... Colchester Fantasy... it's his other one, Frostfire, that I don't like. It just kinda goes on and on without much of a point... does sound cool, but all that work, and not much of a reason behind it...
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