Sunday Ramblings

This week I got sick from too much stress. I don't think I have a heavy workload but when the Music 301 tests come around . . . I feel like I haven't prepared enough (even though I studied till my brain hurt) and I start to worry. Then, when I start feeling my throat get sore my mind starts racing, "No, I can't get sick. I don't want to get sick. I don't have the time to get sick. I hope this doesn't get any worse. What if it does?" and then stress myself into sickness. At least it's not laryngitis like last year.

While I'm ill I've started to make some preparations for my junior recital which will probably be early to mid winter semester. I'm trying to figure out how much music to prepare, and who I can share the stage with (junior recitals only half and hour). I'll probably have a few French songs by Fauré and Duparc. German songs by Wolf and Brahms probably. As for Italian and English, I don't really know what to do. Any suggestions?

Yesterday I recorded all the guitar tracks for my recording project. I'm really happy with the results. I recorded an acoustic pretty much the same way I described before, and then recorded my electric with a D.I. box and by putting an EV RE27 on the cabinet. I tried a Sennheiser MD421 on the same cabinet and didn't like the sound. I mean, it was bad. I was just really glad to get all the guitar parts out of the way, now it's just drums, bass and vocal.

I'm still in the process of composing a really cool choral work. At least, I think it's really cool. It's actually the longest piece of music I've written so far. That's why it's taking so long. When I finish it and start polishing I'll write about it here.

Rehearsals are going great and our concert's coming up next weekend. Nov. 14th and 15th. Stop by and check it out. BYU Campus, Harris Fine Arts Center, de Jong Concert Hall.