Crazy Monday!!! So Much Practicing.....
Ticket for Messiah: €4
Yeah....today was not terribly special.....after German Mike and I went over to the Musikverein to buy tickets for the Messiah....unfortunately they were already sold out of seats (and here I thought that they started selling tickets today!! i guess not.....) so we got Stehplatz, but it's not a big deal.....I mean, if there's anything I'll be able to stand through, it's the Messiah, because even though it's very long, I know the whole thing like the back of my hand, and things that you know are always easier to stand through because you're that much more engaged. Anyway, Mike was kind enough to treat me to the ticket...(thank you!) and I'm really really jazzed about seeing it......Harnoncourt is conducting it again, and I really like him!
After buying the tickets, Mike went down to the Mahler society and I hurried back to school to work at the library, which was interesting as always! After AA&A and Music History I headed over to Marianum to practice. It went quite well, and after mastering both the Prelude and Fugue in the Bach, I looked some of the hymns in the appendix and also at some of the hymns in the huge "Gotteslob" book that's used for services. I looked at Stille Nacht, heilige Nacht and tried to record it, but it wasn't going to well. And then, the weirdest thing happened: this guy walked in with a set of tympani and started asking me all these questions in German (he probably had no idea what the heck I was doing there...) so I decided that instead of trying to decipher what he was saying, I would just leave, so I did. As I was walking away from the school back to Gersthof to catch the Straßenbahn I remembered that I wanted to go the Schönbrunner Straße apartments to practice in the practice rooms...specifically the Bach piece for which I'm playing the piano (not very well, I might add....) So I took another novel way back....I took the 13A bus that stops right by Marianum to the U4 Schönbrunn stop and took the U4 to Pilgramgasse, from which I walked to the practice rooms. I was there for about 45 minutes going over the Bach....there are still some passages that I still just can't get into my fingers! I forgot why I both love and hate playing the piano......it just does not come naturally to me, which is both why I love it and detest it.
After practicing and not getting as far as I wanted (and witnessing an interesting emotional moment in the lobby....the pianists were in a group hug) I returned home, did some stuff and went to bed.
Yeah....today was not terribly special.....after German Mike and I went over to the Musikverein to buy tickets for the Messiah....unfortunately they were already sold out of seats (and here I thought that they started selling tickets today!! i guess not.....) so we got Stehplatz, but it's not a big deal.....I mean, if there's anything I'll be able to stand through, it's the Messiah, because even though it's very long, I know the whole thing like the back of my hand, and things that you know are always easier to stand through because you're that much more engaged. Anyway, Mike was kind enough to treat me to the ticket...(thank you!) and I'm really really jazzed about seeing it......Harnoncourt is conducting it again, and I really like him!
After buying the tickets, Mike went down to the Mahler society and I hurried back to school to work at the library, which was interesting as always! After AA&A and Music History I headed over to Marianum to practice. It went quite well, and after mastering both the Prelude and Fugue in the Bach, I looked some of the hymns in the appendix and also at some of the hymns in the huge "Gotteslob" book that's used for services. I looked at Stille Nacht, heilige Nacht and tried to record it, but it wasn't going to well. And then, the weirdest thing happened: this guy walked in with a set of tympani and started asking me all these questions in German (he probably had no idea what the heck I was doing there...) so I decided that instead of trying to decipher what he was saying, I would just leave, so I did. As I was walking away from the school back to Gersthof to catch the Straßenbahn I remembered that I wanted to go the Schönbrunner Straße apartments to practice in the practice rooms...specifically the Bach piece for which I'm playing the piano (not very well, I might add....) So I took another novel way back....I took the 13A bus that stops right by Marianum to the U4 Schönbrunn stop and took the U4 to Pilgramgasse, from which I walked to the practice rooms. I was there for about 45 minutes going over the Bach....there are still some passages that I still just can't get into my fingers! I forgot why I both love and hate playing the piano......it just does not come naturally to me, which is both why I love it and detest it.
After practicing and not getting as far as I wanted (and witnessing an interesting emotional moment in the lobby....the pianists were in a group hug) I returned home, did some stuff and went to bed.
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