Sorry its taken so long, life got fairly busy. I had The masquerade ball the last weekend of January. My roomie and her fiance helped me construct my mask out by paper mache-ing my face. Rather amusing and then it was taking forever to dry so we took out the blow driers and attempted that. If you ever try this don't hold it too close cause your face will burn. trust me. Oh and that towel I was laying on got completely ruined so keep that in mind. After that I let it sit out and dry for about 2 weeks and then cut off the
edges and made eye holes and such (which is a lot harder than it looks). Then I bought material scraps and super glued every inch of the material to the mask. Following that I put my decorating skills to use. I think it turned out pretty well. The actual dance was a ton of fun. I'd have to say my favorite part was that the guy i took was nice enough to force me to dance almost every other song. Oh and thank J's Roomie for giving me the amazing dress, i think i would have been lost without her help.So for all of those who might not know I get to go to Korea and Japan with the Wind Symphony for about 3 weeks in May. And around the end of January I finally got my passport which i must say looks amazing and I am very excited to start using it.
I went to the MTC to volunteer for the first time. It was surprisingly a ton of fun. One of my roomies is a teacher for all sisters going to visitor centers and so she has them set up a fake visitor center and they lead us around and teach us. For the first time we act like general Christians who aren't Mormon, then second time we act like ourselves. I enjoyed the first time better just cause i've used to go to all my friend's revivals (for the free pizza and games) and knew exactly what type of religion I was pretending to be and all the doctrine they know of. It was rather amusing.
So currently i am a general music major but I am trying to apply to the Music Education Major. They only accept 12 people from all band and orchestra backgrounds so competition is pretty fierce . We had to send in a 10-15 minute video of ourselves teaching a group of children a musical concept. So I scrounged up some children who were siblings to a fellow euphonium player. I did really well for the first 5 minutes but the children apparently knew all of the concepts (it would have been like teaching our family around age 9 about dynamics, its just something we knew). So I continued with random other affects you could create with dynamics which ended up being a lot of fun. I finished the rest of the application and turned it in so now i am just going to play the waiting game till april.
I had a concert last night. Fairly difficult music. My Euphonium teacher gave me a new solo which Is way too difficult to play but it is what i have to work up for my jury at the end of the semester. Here is a recording i found online of it. I won't play it near anywhere that fast. and he did change a few things to be higher than what they are. But the highest note found at the end is a high E flat which is the 1st line on the treble clef (piano version, not to be confused with the euphonium's tenor clef which looks exactly the same)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPpSalT9AMY
