Thanks so much for checking in on me. It means a lot! I felt a need to take a break from posting for a while but I've been thinking about all your questions and observations! I'm having fun getting ready for my audition in Boston in 2 weeks--I went ahead and bought my plane ticket. I've been working on performing from memory (which is a new thing for me but part of the audition) and performed in front of my studio on thursday and it went AWESOME. Also, an aquaintance of mine from school asked me to come play with his orchestra in thailand at the end of may/beginning of june?!! It is a long shot at this point because I would have to buy my own plane ticket and also conflicts with something else I was planning to do but, exciting. Also, I just got an email from this amazing balinese composer I collaborated with when I used to be in Boston asking me if I'd be in boston in march/april, since he will be there and he's wondering if he could put me on the cello into a new piece. Again something of a long shot since I am on my lease in ATl through the end of March and was planning to stay in ATL through the spring, but so exciting, because he mentioned this project to me in 2006 and I've been hoping it would really happen someday. If we don't collaborate on this piece of his we could do another one in the future, but it's exciting!!
On Thursday I went to yoga class and did an exciting new pose for the first time--where you sort of lunge forward and then touch the back of your head with your foot! I didn't get my foot all the way to my head but I could feel my ponytail on my foot and I thought, wow, I am so close! YAY!! I went out for fish tacos afterwards with some yoga ladies and it was so nice to be hanging out with new friends! One of the ladies asked me to be part of a yoga photo story she was doing and I felt really flattered.
On Friday I called B in the afternoon. He picked up and said hello, how are you doing, I am actually in a bow shop right now, and I told him I was just calling to thank him for the CD. He said, yeah, I haven't listened to it all the way through but I heard from some other people that it was pretty bad (meaning, the compositions, not his own playing). I laughed a little and admitted I didn't get through the last piece (which he wasn't involved in at all) but that I listened to the tracks he was on twice. I told him that the violins sounded great, that my favorite part was the last movement which sounded like it would be good for a dance, and that I liked how the electronics were used to connect the western and chinese instruments. He said that he got a couple free copies and he thought I might find some inspiration in it because of how it was combining classical music with another tradition (OK, *that's* why he sent it to me). I said it sounded like it was really hard to put together, just because it was so complicated, and he said it was and that one of the chinese players had an extrahard time because her part was so fast. I told him that the other violinist, who picked B for the project, must have really liked B because I would be really picky about including someone on a project like that. B laughed and said that he wasn't the other violinist's first choice and that the other violinist hadn't called him to work on another project yet so he wasn't so sure. This was all a little awkward because i wanted to compliment him on his work but it was obvious that he wasn't totally in love with the music, so I wanted to be positive but not dishonest (I wasn't in love with the music either). The whole time there was loud violin playing in the background, at one point I jokingly (but honestly) said, I can't hear anything you're saying because of the beautiful violin music in the background! At the end he said, "Oh--I gotta go--I'm next in line!" and I said, "Ok, bye!" and just hung up. The whole conversation was maybe, 10 minutes or less. A little bit later he texted me, "Sorry for cutting the conversation short. I hope to catch up with you soon!" I waited about an hour and then texted him back, "No prob. I'd like to talk more about your recording! I am also working on my resume for the school in Boston. you are so good at that stuff. Would you be able to look at it this weekend? If not its cool." And I haven't heard back from him. This was all on Friday.
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I need to go ahead and submit my application soon, so I think he missed his "chance" to help me with that! Maybe I will wait about a ... week and then call him again? I wonder if he didn't get my message or is just blowing me off/too busy to call. Whatever.
