No offense to flute or clarinet players. However, both the principal flute AND principal clarinet players for our late July orchestra concert are living on my floor, and every morning around 8:15 pm, when my alarm goes off the FIRST time, they decide to start their day by practicing Daphnis and Chloe excerpts, which is the main piece on the late July orchestra concert program. Now - I love Daphnis and Chloe. I have the most fond memories of playing it at Eastman during the Nov. concert of my junior year. It was probably the best orchestra concert I played there. HOWEVER - if I here that ridiculous flute solo ONE MORE TIME, bad things might start to happen. And its a beautiful flute solo too. What a shame.

In other news, things are going well. I've been tired off and on, but thats normal. We've started doing Sessions more seriously again, and surprisingly, its going much better than last week. Orchestra sounds great for Shosty 5, but Death and Transfiguration is a complete complete disaster. I think the student conductor for it is one of Wayne's old friends.

Also, I've been asked about the Bravo Alto Flute thing. Its from last summer, during the FCM orchestra concert. There was a huge alto flute solo, and my standpartner, Cristi, in his Bulgarian accent, would always shuffle his feet when it was over and say "Bravo, alto floooooote." It has become my favorite quote.

David and my obssesion with Shakira is continuing. Lets see how many times we can listen to it before we get sick of it.