Music festival

Holy..... OK. First of all: The choir did great. Actually, I don't know if we could have done better. I think everyone was happy with our performance. It was so good that we are going to perform in the Highlights concert: the best of the best in the music festival! WOOT!

And with my performance on my violin. Well. I was sick. With a low-grade fever. And the worst cough of my life. And I played both pieces. And the surprising thing was that it went really well. Yes! I was really pleased with both performances. I could have played louder, but aside from that it was great. A really awesome conclusion to two pieces that I've worked hard on. And..... I won an award for my playing! DOUBLE WOOT!

Weeeeeee!

So, this morning my choir had a performance at the music festival. I was quite pleased with how we did. Which was weird, because a week ago I didn't think we could do it, but we did!

And this Sunday and Monday (both in the evening), I will be performing my two violin solos at the music festival. I'm pretty sure I'll do a good job: I've been practicing for a long time, and both pieces seem pretty strong.

I'm taking archery again. I love archery so much! I'm hoping to buy my own bow, so I can practice more often, but I'm not sure what kind to buy and all. I know of someone at the local sports store that I can talk to. But anyway: I'm the only girl in my class, which I find a bit funny for some reason, but it doesn't bug me at all. I'm actually kind of proud of it.

Anyway.......

cool singer

Here's a really cool singer that you might like to check out: http://www.myspace.com/brettdennen He has some sample music on there -- my favourit is "Blessed".

classes ending and puppies :)

Almost my classes are done: fiddle orchestra, string orchestra, and choir are all finished. (My violin are archery lessons are still happening). It feels great to have all this free time, but at the same time, it's kind of sad, because I like my classes. But one thing I'm really happy about is all my concerts are done!! My last one, a choir concert, was on the first day of the month. All I have left is my violin recital on the 18, which I don't really consider a concert. It's still a performance, though.

The other interesting thing that happened was I saw a litter of 9 adorable 7 week old puppies!!! Someone we know is fostering them and their mom. The mom, called Chloe, is a sweetie, and the puppies are wriggling balls of joy. They are such DARLINGS!!!!

Ah, well, that's about it.....
Peace

choirs, choirs EVERYWHERE

On Friday, my choir performed at four schools so that young people could get a chance to here our choir. Oh my goodness, what crazyness. The people at the first school (a middle school) couldn't care less. You could tell they didn't want to be there. The next three schools were elementary schools. At the second school, the people there where a little better. They had less of the oh-my-gosh-this-is-so-boring attitude that the first school had. And the third school... oh my gosh. They actually asked for more. That's right! I heard kids shouting, "just one more!" I could hardly believe it! And the forth school was about the same as the second one.

So yeah, that's what kind of crazyness my choir has been up too......

PUPPIES!!!!!!!!!!!!!

YAY YAY YAY!!!!!!! The breeder email us, and she said that THE PUPPIES ARE BORN!! They were born on the 10th... so I guess they are 2 days old. They must be so small that they can fit in your hand. We will be able to take the puppy home sometime in the middle of July, I think. Oh my gosh I can hardly wait. :) We have a name picked out: Misha. (if that's how you spell it). Oh yeah, it's going to be great.

On another note: MORE VIOLIN TROUBLES. The tail piece on my violin decided that it was tired of being attached to my violin, so it popped off. *groan* That was on Wednesday. Unfortunately, I had to play my violin the next day (to prepare for a concert). My teacher came to the rescue: we traded violins for the day: he took mine and put a temporary tail piece on, while I borrowed his. Can you believe that? He actually lent me his violin. Anyway, we took my violin to the violin repairer shop today, and they put on a permanent tail piece on. But that wasn't the end of it. Right after that, one of my strings decided it didn't like the tail piece, and... yes! It popped off! In the middle of fiddle orchestra! *groans again* Luckly, someone there kindly fixed it, so I was able to play in class.

So, that was my adventure for today.........

--Nobody can explain a dragon.

violin troubles: solved?

Well, we took the violin to the violin repairer guy, Kim, on Tuesday. He looked it over and said that the last person who rebuilt it did not do a very good job, and that the angle of the neck was off. (grrrrrr [luckly, it's not that big of a deal]). He also said it could be about 75-80 years old! Well anyway, he did something to the bridge (not sure what) and put a new fine-tuner on it (not sure why [sorry if the terminology doesn't make sense]). And since the tuning pegs were slipping, he put some "peg dope" on them, which really helped. I can actually tune the 'A' string now! WOOT! :D I think the only thing left to do is replace the tuning pegs, which we will do in the summer, when I'm not playing as much.



Peace favour you.

violin troubles

Yeeks. My violin is acting up. Or my 'A' string is acting up. You see, today at orchestra, my A string decided that it didn't like the tail piece on my violin, so it snapped out of it's spot in the tail piece. My conductor/teacher had to fix it. Then this afternoon at fiddle orchestra (yeah I know, two different orchestra practices in one day) my violin was totally out of tune, so I asked my other teacher to tune it, and guess what? The A string snapped out AGAIN! 4 times, actually. So I think I have to get my violin looked at. And maybe get new tuning pegs. I don't know. It's really annoying. Anyway I'll survive.

Peace!

Crazy orchestra practice

Oh my goodness! Orchestra. There was an orchestra practice today, but because it's still spring break, there weren't too many people there. Which wasn't good for the first violins. (I'm a first violin). Ok, the first violins who were there were me and two other people who love to speed. It's like they have a mission to speed up the whole orchestra. So as you can imagine, I had a really hard time keeping the correct tempo. I did my best to listen to the cellos blaring behind me (we have a LOT of cellos) and watch my conductor, which helped, but it was still hard. *sighs* Ah well, that was my excitement for the day.

Ok, this is crazy, but...

My choir got invited to the Provincial music festival. The Provincials!! Only the best go there. I never even considered the possibility of us going there, but we are! Well, we won't be going physically. The way it works with choirs is you send a recording for the judges to listen to. Don't ask me who made up those rules, 'cause I don't know, but such is life. I think it would be interesting to go to the Provincials and see what all the fuss is about, but I'm not going... oh well. That's all right.

Anyway, I am sick again. I'm getting over a cold that kept me in bed for the whole weekend. Nothing has done that since I don't remember when. And now I'm coughing like crazy. No fun, but I'm on the mend.

One last thing: does anyone even read this blog? Or am I blasting into empty space?
Bye-bye!

wow...

Ok people, Check this out: http://www.jaygreenbergmusic.com/ It's the website of a 15 year old composer who wrote like 5 syphonies by the age of 12... yeah, it's pretty wacky. And cool!

Sick and other things.

I got sick a little while ago. Not terribly sick, but just a little. It was weird... it was like I was totally drained of energy. But I'm WAY better now, so it's all good.

My choir sang in the music festival last Friday. I think we did an awesome job. Although there was one little mix up: we sang "song" when we were supposed to sing "rhythm". (Oops!) But our choir directer and the adjudicator both seemed happy, so that was good. The adjudicator was funny: she used words like "scrumptious" and "yummy". Not exactly the words that you would expect, but she was really positive, and she did a good job. It was fun.

Well, I'm out of here.
May the stars watch over you.