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Friday, May 16, 2003
An Excerpt from A Letter to A Friend...
"...WOW I just realized how freaking LONG this summer vacation is! It's crazy. My family moves on the 27th, so, 10 days from now.. and then I have like a whole month before I go to the summer camp. What the hell am I going to do, without taking lessons etc?! I have confidence in myself but this is like the first time I'm going so long without any instruction from a teacher. It's really kind of scary. But I have a large repertoire to learn, so I am going to be able to keep myself busy. I am excited about this summer camp very very much. I want it to be a real opportunity for me to grow a lot both in technique and repertoire.. I kind of feel like this is a really important summer for me. Once school starts I can't REALLY focus on refining my technique, it's more like learning pieces, and I know for a fact that my teacher talks less and less about technique as the student gets older.. that's the scary thing about him - he's a very hands-off kind of a teacher and doesn't go after you to make sure you are doing all the right stuff that he's already told you many times.. the way he is is, if you don't seem to work hard to get it after what he considers to have been a sufficient amount of time, then he kind of moves on.. just making the best out of whatever you turned out to be so you can just be a decent player. And that's NOT what I want!! I want to go as far as I can go, I don't want my teacher to reduce his expectations for me, if anything I want him to push me more - I don't want him to give up on me like he does with most kids, I don't want him to lose faith in me, ever. Whoo.. that was a heated moment on my part.. :D Yeah.. I'm really crazy about it like this.. :P.." posted by the stradgirl* on 23:25| |
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