I have now finished three years of college.



I got home last Friday. JetBlue is pretty nice. Being home is pretty nice, too.



The night before my flight, everything in my room was already packed up, so I just stayed up all night with Kate and Nathan. We got into the locked classroom in the locked music building (hehe) and watched The Music Man on the projector screen. Yeah, we're dorks... but it was fun. (One night a few weeks ago we stayed up all night and went to the beach around 5:00 am for the sunrise. That was fun, too.)



So after getting home, on Saturday I went to hear my teacher perform in Reno with the Reno Chamber Orchestra. He played the Mendelssohn violin concerto. Ohh, I was impressed. He's so fabulous. Before the concert, he came out into the audience and chatted with me for a bit, and afterwards, I stopped to talk to him while he was signing autographs. I couldn't help feeling a bit, well, special... this amazing violinist is my teacher. I am so lucky.



The conductor of the RCO was pretty amusing to watch. Also, he provided extra sound effects... kinda Glenn Gould-ish, if you know what I mean. Very entertaining.



Almost all of my friends from school are in Europe right now, either for the choir tour or the wind ensemble tour. Hey, dudes... I want to go to Europe.

Update:



theory composition project

perform a bunch of other people's compositions

psychology final exam

conducting final exam

pack up

go home



Wow. The year is basically over.



It's been a pretty good one.



I got my jury sheets back. I'm pretty happy with how things went.



My composition turned out pretty fun. It had to employ specific 20th century techniques, and I enjoyed writing it. I ended up including spoken parts for specific people, spoken from their seats in the audience. It was titled, "In Memoriam: A Tribute to Theory with PJB" (PJB being my professor). It was pretty funny, which was my intent. I wasn't trying to say something deeply theological, or to bring world peace or racial reconciliation... but to make people laugh. Which it definitely did.



Going home on Friday. I'm going to miss people over the summer... I like my friends.



But oh, it will be good to be home.

voice class final performance

last orchestra concert

theory exam

videotaped conducting test

violin lesson

psychology quiz

voice class journal and essays

last theory lab sight-singing quiz

juries

theory composition project

perform a bunch of other people's compositions

psychology final exam

conducting final exam

pack up

go home