Friday, August 29, 2008

Cricket, anyone?

#1. I love Janet Hilton. I had my first lesson yesterday and she is absolutely wonderful. I'm officially done with Weber and have four new British pieces to get. I was looking up prices last night (because I thought I would have to order them from home and have them shipped to avoid the coversion of the crappy dollar) and they are all much cheaper to buy here, even with the exchange rate. I might go hunting around for some music stores here in London later today.

#2. I missed the first NY Phil proms concert last night. My lesson went a little too long, and the cheap seats were sold out. So no Steve Stucky, Gershwin, or Rite of Spring. boo. Tonight however I will definitely be seeing Ravel- Mother Goose Suite, Bartok- Miraculous Mandarin, and Tchaik 4 after a picnic dinner in Hyde Park!

#3. I am going to learn how to play cricket in about half an hour. If things go well I should have some funny pictures as I think all the music majors will be learning, and we all know how uncoordinated musicians really are. If things go badly, I think a broken wrist in England would really round out my average nicely. (Just kidding mom)

Cheers!

2 comments:

Amanda said...

Happy Birthday Laura!!!! :)

Lily Kaye said...

Happy birthday! I figured saying it here would be slightly better than on Facebook. Also, school is weird without you. Enjoy the percussion in the 4th mvmt. of Tchaik.