A concerto, Halloween, and other things

So thursday was the concerto competition.  If you are not aware of how this works, it’s when a bunch of people at calvin audition or compete (or whatever you want to call it) for the opportunity to play a concerto (or movement thereof) with the orchestra in a concert.  There are usually 4 or 5 [...]

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where the wild things are

I liked the movie a lot.
Yes, it was different than the book.  Of course it was.  The book takes all of a minute and a half to read, and that’s if you take a decent amount of time looking at the pictures.  I don’t want to say there’s nothing to it (because that’s not true), [...]

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One day I would like to….

(this is in no particular order)
1.  conduct a symphony orchestra
2.  compose something that’s actually good
3.  live somewhere in europe.  Or at least visit for a semi-extended period of time.  I’ve GOT to go to Vienna at some point.  And I’d really like to see Romania again.   And be in England long enough to aquire an [...]

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If you had told me….

I would have laughed in you face if you had told me at the beginning of my senior year of high school that a year from them I would be going to school in Michigan as a music education major.
I would have denied vehemently if you had told my high school self that I would [...]

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Conglomeration

I am seriously lacking in motivation recently.  I don’t want to be in school.  I’m tired of it.  I’m ready for change, ready to move on, ready to leave the world of student-hood.  Of course I don’t know what I’ll be doing after that…so in that sense, at least, I am very much not ready.  [...]

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