Time for rehearsals!

Wow.. so I went from practically not having any rehearsals set up, and not having all my players. To having EVERYTHING set and all my players... this all happened today.... yes.. I've been busy texting and emailing. It's going to be crazy madness for me the next two weeks, but well worth it.
Time to practice and rehearse for my life!

Oh.. and I made this for the fun of it: This would be "horror" genre for my poster... And no.. I won't be posting this one in the music department... It was just for the fun of it.

Aaaallllllllllmost there!!!

Soooooooo close!
I added pictures this time... just to have something to look at. And since the title does have some reference to sailing, I thought it apropos to put in sailing pictures! Go figure...

Poster break!

Took a break from composing and got a necessary thing done... the recital poster! I hope to do a few, but I won't make any more until I'm done composing. I just wanted one done so I could email friends and family to let them know about (those who already don't, that is..)

I only make bets when I know I'll win...

So my recital is coming together... but really.. I need/want to end it with a chamber orchestra piece. So I started one and brought it to my lesson on Thursday... My teacher liked it, and asked when I was hoping this would be performed... to which I replied, "My recital." :)
He's eyes got slightly larger and said something to the effect of, "The one that's in a few weeks!?"
"Yes.. I can do it..."
"I don't want to sound pessimistic here, but I don't think you can..."
"Oh yes I can.."
"Finish it, get all the players, rehearse, and have it ready for your recital?"
"Yes."
"..That's in a few weeks.."
"Yes."
"I feel a bet coming on!"

So he's betting $10 against me that I can't do it.. And one of the other students in the lesson got in on it.. so that's $20 now. So if I finish this, that's $20 for me.. but if not, I loose $20.
When I told my brother about it, he said I should have bet 2:1, cause the odds are against me. *Shrug* I've never bet before.... kind of new to how it works.
So anyway!!
Here's the start of it. Please forgive the midi playback.. it knows not what it does.

Article in the school paper

Here's the end result of my interview with a student journalist from school:

The State Hornet
Student refuses to let rare illness slow her down

The cutest cat ever

You know everyone says it, but really... I really do have the cutest cat in world.

Getting things rolling!

Today I had an interview with one of the journalists at school... Oddly enough, he wasn't doing a piece on me as a musician so much as he was doing a piece on me having ITP. How he knew I had that?.... I'm not quite sure.... hmmmm. Needless to say, it went very well, and afterward he asked if I had pictures I could send to him. Naturally, I said yes.. thinking about the gobs of photos I have from my jazz recital... and then realized they probably weren't exactly what he wanted. So I took some new ones when I got home...and not only for the newspaper, but to help promote my recital as well.
I have more ideas for my recital pics, but this at least gets the ball going and puts me in a recital head space, so to speak. In the end, I want to make my poster look like a movie poster... with the title of "Escape from Capistrano"..or something to that effect........ it's a work in progress.


Jess took the pics, I photoshopped. :)