2nd day of CMC.

Good news: I talked to Jay a bit more today. He seems really nice He’s just more of an introvert. He also really stepped up his playing! Not that he wasn’t good before. He just put a little more OOPMH into when our coach told us to kick it up a notch. Beethoven = intensity.

We started theory classes today, and I’m in theory level four Yay! We learned about triads today. This morning, the word “triad,” would have scared the crap out of me, but now I know that it’s like the easiest term in the world.

Bad news: My secondary group doesn’t want to PLAY. We played through the piece once, and then they started reading children’s books. (The camp is at a school, and we rehearse in the library.) I felt weird saying something, so I just kind of sat to the side and practiced Bruch. : / I paid for a chamber music camp, though… I wanna play chamber music!

Also bad news, our violist is STILL on vacation. Friggin’. If she’s not back tomorrow, I’m gonna be pissed. I’m ALSO gonna be pissed if we can’t play our secondary piece because of an absent violist and an ABSENT-MINDED second violinist. Urgh.

Special stuff: Today we had the “open faculty rehearsal.” It’s not so much a rehearsal as it is a chance to give the little kids tips about how to rehearse in a chamber group. First, two of the faculty members played a four-hand piano piece. Hungarian dance No. 5, actually. They played No. 1 last year. I like that one a billion times more.

Then a quartet made up of the other faculty members played one of the Mozart flute quartets… I don’t remember what it’s called :p I played it two years ago. (WITH WJK <3)

So that’s pretty much it.