A New Update — A New Summer!

It’s been almost a year since my last post — and I’m so sorry for disappearing like that!
A lot has happened in the past year, but even more is happening this summer. I’m playing my first real gig as a professional bassoonist (in the pit at the Ohio Light Opera), getting a new bassoon (a [...]

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perhaps a public service?

I will be visiting my grandparents in Miami starting today until June 23. They don’t have an internet connection, so hopefully I’ll be able to update once a week… But if not, just picture me enjoying the beach and working on reeds!
Have a great summer in the meantime!

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it’s lovely to be back?

So after a semester of crazy times (including the most bizarrely difficult math class, my first jury ever, and lots of reeds, quintet rehearsals, and learning of music), I am back home and am going to update this sucker again. I’m planning on continuing these updates into the school year, this time… because honestly, this [...]

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back “home”

After a fantastic two weeks in Miami, I’m back at home — and missing Eastman. College seems like the Time of Two Homes, both of which are more or less equally missed. Or unequally missed, depending, I guess.
Hanging out with all the Cubans that make up my mom’s side of the family was really fun, [...]

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fundamentally something-or-other

At my last lesson Mr. Hunt and I talked a lot about fundamentals (vibrato, tounging/double tounging, flicking, intonation), so I’ve started spending two hours a day working them. It’s surprisingly fun — I’ve always been a sucker for scales — but also surprisingly difficult. Focusing on intonation and coordination and everything for that long is [...]

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