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Amazing qualities
Posted Dec 3, 2003
I have an amazing gift...
I may know the date of important events (such as brithdays, dental appointments, anniversaries, great historical events, etc.). But no matter how much of a sticky-brain I am, I will always remember the date, except on ONE day of the year... Try and guess which one I'm talking about...
Yup, you're probably onto something.
It happened again today...
Quite correct, I forget the importance of a given day ON that particular day. I dunno what does it. I think there is some trigger in my mind saying that since I know that this day is here, I no longer need to look forward in anticipation to that day... AAAARGH
So, Mari, if you're out there... I'm SOOOOOO sorry for forgetting your birthday!
... etc...
And I'll make some general apologies in advance... To all you people out there who happen to have some significant dates of yours that you want me to remember, please post them here, and I'll try to remember, or at least I'll apologize a couple of days later...
Cheers
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Tests, exams and other bothers
Posted Nov 28, 2003
I haven't posted for a while, because I haven't really had time to do it. These past four weeks have been... hectic, to say the least. I feel like I'm running right on the edge of exhaustion. I'm only just managing it...
Anyway, how has the last month been, then... I think the proper answer is... rather eventful. We've given a jubilee concert. The bosnians were here for a week, we gave a gig with them. I've been to the Norwegian academy of music, and seen what they do there... There have been two concerts at school, and I'm not including the horrid "Russerevy" this year... Urgh.
Anyway, the dreaded four-hour tests are coming up. We've had one allready, actually. Norwegian. I think it worked out. This next week we've got two four-hour tests, French and Arranging/Composing. And We've got a "history of music" test, with some 90 pages to read for, plus listening examples... Urgh. After that, there's the conducting test... and the dreaded play-up... AAAAH. I'm playing three ensemble pieces with Geir, and Morten. On top of that, I've got a solo marimba piece, a timpany piece, a snare drum piece, and possibly a four-mallet marimba piece... Got, I hate four mallets. It's hellishly uncomfortable, and frighteningly difficult. Though it's fun, when you can manage it. I was really impressed by the performance by the academy students... They had a guy from sibir there, doing some incredible things to a HUGE marimba... I think the piece he played was called Marimba Capriccio.. or something like that... FUN!
The jubilee concert was last week. Once again, people were moved to tears. Disguised god is a GREAT work. I really love it after this. It's incredible to see a church stacked full with people, all of which have glazed eyes after only a couple of movements... There were some other pieces in the concert. I really liked Miriam's performance of "Carmen Fantasy". She's a real talent... even though she won't admit it...
So, where was I... Um, I dunno really. I can't think of anything else to write at this point, so I'll just leave it till I think of something worth writing...
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Intuition?
Posted Oct 29, 2003
I had a v. strange experience today...
I went through the entire schoolday feeling as if I was going to have a test sometime during the day, I had no idea why, I couldn't quite figure out what was causing the feeling. We had a test on tuesday, and we're going to have another one on thursday, but still...
When we got to the last lesson, the teacher asked me if I could do a test that the others had taken while I was working with the Bosnians, and if it was possible for me to do it right there and then... YIKES
Having been preparing mentally for an unexpected for the last seven hours, I felt quite ready for the challenge. The test was EXTREMELY simple... It was in what we call "satslære", which is all about arranging four voices into a choral piece... I think this may very well become my first 6 this year... YAY...
Anyway, we're having a French test tomorrow... Oh the horror...
I'm really tired of tests now... we've got 2-3 tests a week for every week until christmas. And I've got no time to rest, because I have to spend my weekends doing homework... Urgh... I'm really tired now, so I'll just go to bed early today...
Gawd, I'm really looking forward to the holidays, even though what we're doing at school is fun...
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Phew...
Posted Oct 19, 2003
Well, the concert with DKO is over and done with... It went great.
There were some flaws in the playing, but broadly speaking, it went great...
Except...
Who the b***dy h**l moved my stickboard???
I was supposed to change sticks, and I had no more than two strokes in which to do it in... THIS resluted in my playing a VERY shortened finishing tremolo... Which sort of dampened the end of "The Bells".
Otherwise, the audience were quite happy, methinks...
And I'm glad to be done with it, it was fun!!!
Oh, and a thanks to Gedge for writing an entry on "The battle of Agincourt" (A446465), the information was of great use to us during today's performance (once again, I don't feel like explaining this now, I'll do it later, if anyone's interested (beats me why))
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Whooopsi...
Posted Oct 15, 2003
I realize that I've made some grammatical errors in my previous entry... My apologies, folks, but this was written late in the evening, and I didn't have time to review it...
Anyway... I had a quite strange experience yesterday... Before I left school for my normal tuesday routine (which is to stay in drammen, usually doing homework in the library), my Norwegian teacher told me that he would have to postpone my report (which I'll be performing in front of the whole class... eek) until next week. I had been planning to do it in the library, but I could now sit back and relax for yet another week... Also, when I actually got to the library, I relaized that I had forgotten my science books... Alas, my stay at the library was a short one (and I only realized later that it didn't matter, because we had an international day today), so I figured I should go to Kristian's NU-meeting (I'm not even a member, and If you wish to know what NU is, you may ask me later).
I started walking towards the Culture house... and when I passed the Cinema, a thought struck me: "I think I should go in and see what's on".
It is very rare for me to be checking the what's being shown at the cinema, I never do it... Except yesterday... And here comes the strange bit... As I walked in, two of the guys from media came walking down the stairs... Saying: "Oh, there's a musician, glad you could make it!". It turned out that they were showing four short movies that they had made for the "outdoor team" in Drammen (Another thing I'll explain if anyone is interested). They had sent us an invitation through the dancers... but... alas, the dancers had forgotten to tell us... So it was a total coincidence that I ended up watching four short movies, and then afterwards look at all the pictures from Bosnia along with five dancers and Linn from media... YAY, I'm beginning to like the theory of fate...
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