Work on studies, they're the only thing I've managed to get for the next grades I want to do so far. Perhaps practice some stuff that I'm considering for concerts/GCSE recordings.

I've just spent a lovely afternoon playing recorder consorts - wonderful!

Me too!

Oooh fun!

I just spent my afternoon playing recorder duets and working through practical musicianship stuff with a friend: it was fun

Spent the day - off and on, depending on the tiredness of embouchure - playing scales and pieces.
Some lovely pieces by James Rae... and others.

Even going to the library was 'musical' as I returned a score I had borrowed!

Just starting Chopin's Nocturne Op .9 No. 1

Beautiful piece, I'm loving that at the moment. Just that little intro...do do do do do do do do do....

Yeah , it's a great piece really.
For some time , I've been planning to play the one in Db , but yesterday I heard Ashkenasy's recording and decided to start Op. 9 no 1 at once!

Did some practice on new pieces officially being learnt (as opposed to being experimented with whilst awaiting first post-exam lesson) - Sonata Sesta by Uccellini, and a Bach flute sonata - and gave a lesson at my house for a change - so disturbed by kids rather than dogs.

Will answer for yesterday. Playing through all the pieces for concert in September in order to time them and finding they don't fit very well into the time slots we've been given. Followed this with a frustrating hour trying to get onto the forums to post, and failing. Calmed down by listening to some of the music I've got loaded on my computer.

Today I'm playing the clarinet for a lot of American tourists on a cruise ship. Should be interesting...

I tried to sight-read Golland's New World Dances (recorders), Benjamin Thorn's Chocolate Bulbul (treble) and a Handel Viola Sonata, before having to tidy my bedroom and sort out stuff to take to college...

How depressing! Chin up, noodle.
Need to get some sort of semblance of order in my room, before unearthing music and practising Bob Chilcott's soupy version of "Away in a Manger" for Insurance Society Carol Service tomorrow (they're doing an internal broadcast thing for anyone who can't come). Why does our choir always get roped into these things?

Must practice my alto sax tonight. I really intended to last night, but I had the sax set up and had just started my scales when I realised it was the tenor.

I have some lessons this afternoon, all lovely young pupils who usually prepare well for me, and before that I have a song to memorise, some more music to write out and a couple of letters to write. Then I may dig out the Christmas decorations.

Playing for my choir this evening in preparation for a Christmas Concert this Saturday.
Hope to do some finishing touches on a choir medley arrangement - has to be ready for January.

Christmas nativity play (the toddler is supposed to play a wise man from the East! ) and singing carols today.

Trying to get as much in order as I can for my lesson in the morning.
2 students to teach... including a carol concert from one of them for a carol challenge certificate.

Then I have to go and endure the DJ at my daughter's graduation party....why do they have to try to damage our hearing?

Hope the play geos well Tess. On Sunday one of our wise men spent all his time trying to blow out the Advent candles.

That's a good one - like it!
This morning I did some scales on tenor, then moved to alto - the pieces I am looking at just now are all for alto - but so what, they are both lovely!
Big advantage that - play the same fingerings and call the scales by the same names whichever instrument!

I'm supposed to be going to a concert tonight, but the roads are flooded, there are weather and travel warnings and severe flood warnings and if I go I might either not get there to start with, or not get back again....

It has rained and rained (nearly Noah's flood here...thought of building an ark for me and the real cd....I already have a pair of doves in the garden, so that's the start of my collection....! ) and it's not due to stop until after 3 am - another 40 mm of rain is due to fall and already one of the roads out of my town is shut and the river is high enough to be running across the other one......

Rats! I've been looking forward to this concert for weeks!!!!!

This morning I took my Bach choral arrangement to my singing teacher - who played all four parts simultaneously (gosh) - it needs more work - so I gave it three hours worth of looking at this afternoon since it's under threat of the abbey choir singing it.

Just got to fit in an hour's flute and two hour's piano before bedtime.

last night I had the school xmas concert which was nice.
and tonight i've just come back from my little sisters xmas play (awwwww....)
im not doing clari practise coz I've got a cold. and im not alowed to play the piano as my sisters are in bed.
so its a rather non-musical day for me today.
thats really weird.

I practiced flute and piano and violin

HK x

I have an hour's flute lesson tomorrow. Not sure what on earth I'll be playing...I've hardly played the flute though. Have to play in assembly in front of my year group tomorrow *eek* and a concert in the evening.

Good luck Nicki!

Only just seen this thread.

I'm trying to practise my flute every day now to get it back up to scratch. I used to be good at it, but the piano always came first.

I've vowed to play my banjo as well, no matter who complains loudly Family are bored of hearing the same roll over and over. I think they expected me to bring it home from the music shop and start playing "Duelling Banjos" within minutes...

It's painful to practise as well as listen to but I'm sure it will be worth it someday

xxx

Today I had a music lesson on Wagner that I didn't go to...

Tomorrow I have double music which I'm singing some Bach in, the Christe eleison duet from the B minor Mass.
Then I have a singing lesson working on my A2 recital.
Would usually have choir at lunch but we're done for the term.
In the evening I have a viola lesson.
Thursdays are busy for me...

ummm....oboe practise, flute lesson, advanced music concert, piano practise, flute practise, watched xmas show...more of a musical day than I thought!
xoxox

I have my flute lesson, playing in assembly, concert practice and concert today

I have orchestra. I wish I could be the leader of 1st violins when I'm Y10 and Y11. I'm g4 at the moment though. The 'concert master' is Y11, and about g7. And my violin teacher is the conducter.

Singing lesson was appalling and I had a complete breakdown.
Viola lesson has been cancelled because my teacher isn't well.

*hugs*

Spent quite a lot of today preparing for 2-hour rehearsal this evening, conducting the adult learners' orchestra that I run. We shall be busking at a local supermarket next Wednesday for 2 hours, and have a pack of 17 items to run through. Quite a lot of the players have played them all in previous years, but some are new this term. The comfortable thing about busking is that people don't as a rule really listen. We expect to make a cheerful seasonal noise as they arrive and leave. We are supporting a collecting for Cancer Research UK. Quite a lot of the repertoire is Christmas carols, but there are some secular things too, e.g. Jingle Bells, Here we come a-wassailing. We do some less usual ones like Riu riu chiu and Gaudete, plus a short 8-part Christmas motet by Mendelssohn (we don't sing, just play). We usually get through the pack between 2 and 3 times in two hours. We have to play under cover but between two doors to the outside, so depending on the weather it may be seriously cold and draughty! Out with the long johns and fleeces...

ooh - have fun ! hope it goes well.
I've got to go and play for a rehearsal for next week's carol service.

I have a concert in an hour

I've done a whole day's teaching, the first since I came down with the bug from #### last week. I've survived! Really, really glad it's my last full day, though.

I finalised a Grade 8 programme with one of mine today: three pieces I haven't taught before (she's always different, this girl ). She's going to play Mozart, the second movement of the Mouquet (everyone else has chosen the first) and Danse de la Chevre.

I have a concert in 9 hours !!!

Playing in a big carol concert this evening in Southwell Minster...

W

I have one in 6!

I have one in 8!

singing to musicals

Panic temporarily averted; it's only 7 hours from now. Mental arithmetic not what it should be! Let's all send each other positive vibes over the airwaves!

Good luck to all who have a concert tonight. And if you don't play well, then wing it well!

We were playing carols at a children's centre this morning.
I finished up having to play the tenor sax part down an octave as parts were allocated to fit whoever could turn up.

Oh for the wings, for the wings of a dove...... (well you said to wing it well )

Listening to music is as far as I have gone today. We did our big concert last Tuesday

Attempting some Debussy, Chopin, Grieg and Mozart for my piano lesson next week.

And I have just got back from a concert where I was playing in the wind band and the brass band...It went well I got my name mentioned

Both Mouquet movements are gorgeous

DDLC, wooo

I've just had a phone call..."Nicola....will you play in church on Wednesday?"

Good for you! I hope you said yes.

I did Have no idea what to play though. Bach and Telemann me thinks.

I had a windband rehearsal this afternoon and my brain was refusing to think in French.

At one point to get a chord in tune I was asked to play a "si" so I played a "C". Even when he said I was almost a semi-tone sharp it didn't click straight away that I was supposed to be playing a B.

Then a new piece was in 4/8. The conductor said he was going to beat in "croches" and I couldn't work out why he wasn't beating two beats to a bar. (croches are quavers not crotchets).

A bit later on the oboes had thirteen bars rest. The conductor stopped in the middle of this to get another section to play alone first and said he was starting again at the "levee de la mesure 7." For some reason I translated this as the last beat of bar 7 whereas it means the upbeat to bar 7 so of course I came in in the wrong place (and so did my fellow oboist who relies on me to count the rests).

And so the afternoon continued ...

Enjoyable Christmas Concert yesterday evening! Was given two bottles of wine!