Month: May 2022
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Shreveport Symphony Principal Flute audition
Audition #28 in the books! I was proud of my performance- I think playing those two gigs a few nights before with The Pan-Tones helped loosen up my performance chops. I felt more musically confident and expressive than I have before, which was very exciting! I focused a lot on fundamentals leading up to the…
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The Pan-Tones debut
Two successful gigs in one night! It was a whirlwind, but so fun. We played in basically two opposite situations, which was fascinating. The first gig was at the Texas Flute Festival to a basically empty auditorium which was relatively big, with brick walls, and acoustically dry. The second gig (two hours after the first)…
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[practice log] Week of 5/9/22
Monday, 5/9/22 (90 min) Warm up on Altes daily exercise (reversed the pattern). I’m focusing on the third octave legato playing, especially between D, F/#, A. I noticed these fingerings are problematic for me in both Dvorak 8 and Firebird. I also practiced those third octave exercises with both the RH 2 and RH 3…
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[practice log] Week of 5/2/22
Monday, 5/2/22 (60 min) Very strange day- kids were both sick and home from school, and the power was out from a storm. I laid around napping most of the day (since I woke up to help sick kids 4x in the night…). Then I spent an hour practicing the music for the Flower Mound…
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[practice log] Week of 4/25/22
Monday, 4/25/22 (130 min) Picc warm up- chromatic scales (for orchestra rehearsal tonight) Sparks Leonore book, pp. 8-11. Exercises in piano playing, smooth legato, and breath control Debussy, Faun. Run through with recording, 5x. Still trying to figure out what is going on in some parts with the orchestra, rhythmically. I am 4 weeks out…