A Grieving Post

I am currently in deep, deep mourning for the fact that summer is over. O-V-E-R. My first day of classes is next Wednesday, my orchestra audition is Thursday, and the first orchestra "meeting" (this will be my fourth at BU) is Friday.

What really amazes me is that this is my fourth year at BU, and by the end of this year, I will have been here just as long as I was at Eastman. However, for whatever reason, it doesn't seem that long yet. Probably because time is going faster with each passing year.

And while I'm on that subject, what the heck happened to summer 2009? I feel like the months of June, July, and August never happened, and I keep waiting to wake up and realize its actually only June 1st.

(sigh)

I spent the past six days in Sidney, ME, coaching violin sectionals and chamber music groups for the Boston Youth Symphony Orchestra's season starter camp. It was a lot of fun, I met some great people, great kids, and I now have been given the following photocopies to add to my music shelf (all rep listed is first AND second violin parts):

ALL of Don Giovanni - the ENTIRE opera
ALL of Bartok Concerto for Orchestra
ALL of Beethoven 5 (I now own all Beethoven symphonies except 2 and 8)
Swan Lake Suite
ALL of Peter and the Wolf
the fourth mvt of Mahler 5

I reorganized all my orchestra music about two weeks ago, so when I got all this music in the mail I was REALLY excited - I didn't own any of it except parts of the fifth mvt for the Bartok. I don't know if its normal to be so excited about getting a huge envelope of music that I won't be performing any of anytime soon, but to me it was like a gift.

Here's a fun picture I truly enjoy: