Category: auditions
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Preparing to the best of your ability
It sounds incredibly obvious that we should prepare to the best of our ability. However, in reality, things aren’t that simple. We procrastinate, we get sick or need to take care of someone that got sick, or we forget to consider we won’t have as much time to practice during spring break/family visits/etc. Procrastination vs.…
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All about over-practicing
What is over-practicing? 1. Practicing more than usual (your personal usual) as a performance approaches.-Results in mental and/or physical fatigue, and diminishes performance. 2. Practicing to quiet self-criticism and neuroses.-Are you practicing to move forward with a skill or a goal, or to placate fear and self-punishment? 3. Practicing with pain.-Do not ignore your body’s…
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Two summer recitals
I’m doing my (now) annual recitals again in Denton, TX and Honolulu, HI. This is definitely the most musically challenging thing I do each year. I’m so glad I started doing recitals. Once I stopped taking quite so many auditions, I was still performing, but I missed the intense pressure of auditions, which forces me…
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[audition #30] The 30th time is not the charm
…far from it. This was the first time I’ve showed up to an audition with the completely wrong list prepared. Obviously, the exact circumstances were different, but it made me imagine what Maria João Pires might have experienced when she sat down to perform a Mozart concerto, but had prepared the wrong one. In my…
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6 ways journaling keeps me (somewhat) sane
As a kid, I liked the idea of journaling, but never really caught on to it. I tried writing some of the day’s events in my abundant supply of Sanrio diaries (with the little lock and key- I’m not sure why I received so many of these as gifts). Inevitably, I would forget about it…
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The Pan-Tones at Denton Arts and Jazz Festival
Friday, October 6, 5PM at the Courtyard Stage Everyone’s favorite happy face for this concert poster! I had the idea for this design after going to Marina Piccinini’s concert at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, where they have a Takashi Murakami piece. Whenever I see his art, it just makes me feel so…