Before I went to bed, I was looking at a piece that I'm going to be conducting at Mayfair on Friday. You know, the one that's really hard and I only get to work with the students once a week until March, and then I have it adjudicated on March 31st at a festival? Yeah that one. Well, I was studying to tonight (and I say tonight because its a little after midnight) and I rekindled my fire for analyzing music. It's fun, it really is and I forgot why I didn't do more of it at my time in Davis.
Anyway, my eyes were getting heavy so I decided to stop working on the piece and head to bed. But as I laid there my mind just kept going over the music. I couldn't stop thinking about it: the polyrhythms, how I was going to teach it, what exercises I was going to use to teach a certain rhythm.... All of this was flowing through my head and I was just muttering and tapping my mattress to all the rhythms I was going over in my head. If you were lying next to me, you probably would've thought I was insane with what I was doing!
So, I'm awake still... and I can't seem to fall asleep. I want to look at the piece more, but the more I look at it the more wired I'm going to get. I would probably stay up until 4am and then kill myself the next day trying to get through it. To prevent that, I'm typing this up and actually, its working. My eyes are getting a lil heavy and I'm having trouble focusing at times. Probably a good sign I'm ready to go to bed. :)
Here's a pretty good recording of the piece. Well then, with that I'm off to bed. :) Hope your interview goes/went well! I love you and can't wait to see you whenever that may be.
Always loving you,
~Clover
PS: We should plan on going to Korea after we get married. Dr. Whitener sent me an email asking if I'm looking for part time or full time and I explained I may want to go Korea. He pretty much said to do it. We're young and we're not going to get younger and it'll be harder to leave once we're settled down with jobs and kids. So we should plan on doing it. So, let's plan on going to Korea after we're married. :)
I'm glad you were able to fall asleep. And the piece is very nice.
ReplyDeleteAlthough the idea of going to Korea is open, I hope you still told Dr. Whitener what kind of job you're looking for, one that's up north too, just in case. I know it'd be difficult to do after jobs and kids...but...I'm not sure...I don't want to get pregnant & give birth there...and...I don't know...are you sure you really want to plan for something like that? I mean, is this something you really want to go for? Because if so, then yea sure, but at the same time, still keep looking for jobs up here. I love you, and I miss you.