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2003-09-05 22:57:36 ET Well, well, it really had been some time since I didn’t show up here, this time wasn’t because I was busy or had few time, but because I had been having troubles with the internet connection, so we decided to finally try cable connection, though it’s a really simple connection (64K) I know, it works just a bit faster than the regular modem, I don’t much hurry for downloading crazy stuff and having super fast connections, I just needed something that wasn’t too slow and that worked well, so it’s kind of a relief now. Well now that I’m ‘back’ I should be updating myself to see what’s new around here. I did wanted to post many entries while I couldn’t connect, but now that I’m here I just don’t know what to post about. First, I’m not so sure how I am doing on school, it always seems to me that I’m doing better at classes or mathematic homework problems that at exams. I guess that’s always been my woe. Always doing better at practice or rehearsal situations of my life than when confronting it. Also at school I since a two days ago I started playing chess... it had been ages since I didn’t play chess, I enjoy playing it, I suck though, I’m not good, I just know some few moves and tricks but I’m not as systematized as good players are. Oh well, it’s an amusing game for me. As said on previous entry, I’m doing a painting for a contest thing about painting something that involves or represents music. And it has taken me longer that I expected, I shall have it finished for Tuesday or Wednesday so that it may be dry when delivering it to the contest thing (due to next Friday). I wanted to paint today but I guess it’s a bit late now. Here and here are two new samples. Finalizing, on the music scene, I’m taking some extra courses about learning more about music theory, on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, and on Tuesdays and Thursdays having rehearsals with the orchestra; now let me say that the director said that since some integrants were taking it to easy, he said that now a requisite to be playing there is to play at least one Concert on our instrument, so yes, he gave me one, the ironic thing is that the one I’ll be playing I gave him the score and sheet music, heh, I’ve gave him another two ones but those are for other players, anyway, so we all now should be playing either a Cello concerto, a Viola Concerto or (in my case) a Violin Concerto, but just the first movement. The one I’m practicing is J.S.Bach’s Violin Concerto in A minor. Damn it is one difficult piece, really, Bach wrote plenty difficult stuff. I also gave the director the score for the Double Violin Concerto in D minor (a well know and difficult one) and the Violin Concerto in E major also from Bach. Others are playing Vivaldi’s Concerto Grosso in A minor, Vivaldi’s Cello Concerto in G minor and Concerto for 2 cellos, and Telemann’s Viola Concerto and Concerto for 2 Violas. As I can see the most difficult ones are Bach’s and Vivaldi’s concertos. |
