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So this is my journal.

I'm sure it's bound to be endlessly interesting.

Or not.

Right now i'm trying to choose what to play for auditions for my private wind ensemble (I guess it's said to be one of the best youth wind ensembles in the country). The first four flutes of the wind ensemble make the symphony orchestra. I'm already in the orchestra, but this coming year I NEED to make principal flute. So I need to pick a really good piece to play for auditions.

On another note, my mom is MAKING compete in this really competative competition, and I don't really want to, because I don't feel like recording a cd because it's such a time consuming thing to do.

I'm also practicing a piece that I think i'm going to perform this summer, and it's kind of hard. The past few days i've practiced it for so many hours each day that my fingers felt like they were going to fall off. To hear some of the piece i'm talking about, go here > http://www.fromthetop.org/Programs/Performers.cfm?pid=2099 and click on the little headphones next to where it says Borne: Carmen Fantaisie.
I can't play it quite as well as she can, yet. I also haven't played it with my instructor yet, seeing as how it's not my number 1 priority.

I just joined a college band I guess.
So yeah.

I also need to start practicing college audition music (i HAVE to get into the New England Conservatory (( www.newenglandconservatory.edu )) because it's the only conservatory that I absolutely KNOW that I want to go to, i'm not even going to audition for Juilliard because i'm so sure that I want to go to NEC, plus I don't like Juilliard's flute faculty, although Jeffrey Khaner is very handsome for an old guy). I might look into Oberlin though. Ugh I hate this.


On an un-flute related note; it has snowed almost two feet so far today, and it's still coming down hard. I have two driveways, both of which we had to shovel. Talk about suck-age.

So, i'm getting ready to go look at colleges over April vacation. So i'm starting the process of contacting the flute teachers I want to see if I like, and try to take a lesson with each of them while i'm at the college. I live in Maine, so we're going to Boston first, to look at the New England Conservatory of Music, where I think i'd most likely like to study with either Elizabeth Rowe or Paula Robison. And then i'm going to the Hartt School of Music in Connecticut, where I want to meet Greig Shearer. And then we're going down to Philadelphia, where I'm looking at the Boyer College of Music. But the real reason we're even going to Philly is because one of my best friends moved there last summer, so we're going to stay with her for a couple of days.

And then in a separate trip, my mom and I are going to go to Carnegie Mellon, so that I can see whether or not I want to study with Jeanne Baxtresser. And then from Pittsburg we're going to go to Oberlin Conservatory to see if I like Michel Debost.

I decided that I might as well just check out Juilliard, but then decided against it again, much to my mother's relief cause she's all "they have one of the highest suicide rates of any college". But it's like, if I want to kill myself, I'll just switch schools.

I have a very very very very important audition today. Yesterday I started having trouble on things in my piece that i've always been able to play. And i'm pissed because my biggest competition is in Eqypt right now, so they let her send in an audition cd. NOT FAIR.