Thank you SO MUCH for your supportive, loving words!!!
((essie)) thank you for being so reassuring and giving me a good script to follow in an emergency! and for making me laugh about a monster kissing the beard!
((lisa)) you are so loving and encouraging. I have really been thinking a lot about what you said CEO said too. Hmmm.....
((Julia)) thank you thank you thank you thank you!!!
Sooo.....
I just got off the phone with B!! We talked for about half an hour. I got a 97% on my sight singing final, and came home feeling too tired to get very stressed about calling him, so I called!!
When he picked up the phone I said I just wanted to call to say hello and see how he was doing. He said he was doing great and I said I was doing great and then he asked me how my recital went. I told him about how I was having breakthroughs right up to when I walked out on stage (and then gave some specifics) so I was a little unsure what to focus on in the performance. And then I told him how much the recording he sent me (after our last phone conversation) helped me. And also, how his idea to work with a recording (instead of the printed sheet music) inspired me to work with a bunch of other recordings, which REALLY helped my playing. How working with the recording helped me realize I had my own ideas, and also forced me to replicate a musical idea instead of getting tangled up in the physical demands of the cello.
I mentioned that I had a chance to play in a masterclass for XX XXXX, this really famous cellist, and how he talked about the same idea... and then we discussed the other really advanced idea (expressive intonation) that the really famous cellist talked about with me. B and I were both sort of perplexed by the concept... he shared some experiences with his quartet that were similar. I felt like I had a lot more that I wanted to tell him about my recital but I had been talking for a while so I excitedly asked, "what is going on in your world?"
thank you thank you thank you!!!