Master Class

I FINALLY got to play in the master class.  That’s the thing at my camp where a professional musician comes and listens to some of the chamber groups play and gives them each advice.

It was all right.  I can’t say it was incredibly helpful, but it’s always nice to hear from a professional.  We played all right, too.  We were really at our best on Friday.  The weekend messed us up xD  I really think we should just have camp on the weekends.  I mean it’s summer, come on.

The group that played after us was AMAZING.  It was a bassoon-oboe duet.  I’ll have to find out what the piece was called so I can post it.  Those two kids are so amazing.  I tried to play clarinet once, and I couldn’t even get a sound out of it.  They both had beautiful tone.  I wonder what it would be like to play a wind instrument.  I would imagine it’s incredibly hard to learn how to control the tone, but once you get the hang of it, it’s probably easier to put a little spin on notes.  I don’t know.  I just think it’s easier to use your breath for that kind of thing than a bow.

Not that I could do it xD  Kudos to all you wind players out there.

I didn’t get to hear the last group because Carly was having cramps   I didn’t mind not sitting through another group, though.  No offense to them.