It's like things have finally all fallen into place and school has actually started. In the last two weeks, I have been to roughly twenty hours of rehearsal, twenty some odd hours of class, and practiced in the range of 50 to 60 hours. Needless to say, I haven't had a lot of time to sit here and do updates, much less sleep.
My schedule is a madhouse for the rest of the semester, I have three hours of Chinese every morning followed by an insane rehearsal schedule that changes from day to day. Monday and Thursday houses the insanity that is orchestra (it's bizarre, I thought it would be better than SCO or UCO, but it has to be one of the most disorganized orchestras I've ever been involved in. They don't let you take the music home to practice, so it's basically sight reading and we haven't even made it through all of the repertoire...we're performing in just over two weeks). Tuesday I have my violin lesson followed by a rehearsal with my piano trio. Wednesday I go from lunch to a string quartet rehearsal and then directly to my piano trio coaching. And Friday is another coaching for the string quartet. Amongst all of these things, I must find time to practice on my own. My teacher has very high expectations. Which is good, but also very stressful...I don't think I have ever been this stressed to go to a lesson before.
Over the weekend, I went to the International Instrument Show at the Expo Center in Pudong. This basically took up two days of my life and was tiring more than anything else. They definitely had some cool stuff though!
This was a very pretty piano being played by a very pretty pianist in a matching dress.
Corinna decided to play the tiny piano! The guys in the stall thought it was hilarious and got out all sorts of phones and cameras to take pictures. When she got up, they practically forced me to sit down so they could take more pictures of the silly foreigners playing the children's piano.
Crazy colored violins!
Exciting Chinese instruments...these were supposedly made out of jade...but who really knows?
And an awesome tye-dyed piano to round up the show!
And now, although I hate to cut this so short, I really do need to go practice. I am giving my first performance as a conservatory student tomorrow evening. I am playing the Adagio and Fuga of the Bach Sonata No. 1 in G minor...it will be my first performance of the Fuga ever. I guess I have to start somewhere though, and why not start with the most difficult and work backwards?
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