Orchestra Rehearsal

I think we’ve received all of the music planned for our next concert on May 16th, plus the prelude of the medical school graduation on May 2nd.

• Dvorak Slavonik Dance #1 (Op. 46) Presto
• Berlioz Roman Carnival Overture
• Selections from Les Miserables
• Medley from Camelot
• Mozart Overture to The Marriage of Figaro
• Bartok Rumanian Folk Dances
• Bach Double in c for violin and oboe
• Vivaldi Spring from The Four Seasons

Tonight we rehearsed the first five on the list, and my practice notes follow.

Dvorak

• Arpeggios
• scales at F
• broken thirds after F *** (impossible?)

Berlioz

• cello soli at 4
• syncopated motif as at 7 and 12, especially the end of it
• divisi part at 11
• arpeggio at 14
• new fingering at 6/8 after 14
• cello soli at 17 *** Deceptively difficult because of the G#. Fix the fingering.
• review fingering at 19

Les Mis

• run the whole thing once for fingering

Camelot

• once for fingering
• melody at 29 nice and legato

Mozart

• modulating section before D

Thinking out loud

I already have a blog. It’s called If at first you don’t succeed…, and it’s a mish mash of posts about my cats and foster kittens, life as an amateur cellist, and general news. I originally set up a blog to be an on-line practice journal, but now that I have regular readers I feel a compulsion to entertain them. A log is not entertainment for anyone other than the logger.

So, I was thinking. Since I now have a WordPress blog, too, just to make commenting on WordPress blogs easier, I might as well use it. What if I post all of my practice logging over here? I could set up a regular rotation of posts, like, hmm…

Sunday
Monday	Piano lesson log
Tuesday
Wednesday	Voice lesson notes
Thursday	Cello lesson notes
Friday	Cello practice log
Saturday

(Bummer. WordPress doesn’t make tables easy, either.)

I could date the posts according to the day, disregarding when I actually write them, and easily find the one I am looking for by using categories or clicking on the calendar.

Just a thought.

Hello world!

I give up. I finally registered for a WordPress blog just so I can comment on WordPress blogs. They couldn’t seem to handle a registration without a blog without losing either my user name or my password between each login attempt.

 So be it.

You can visit me at If at first you don’t succeed…