a glimpse

this week we began rehearsals for chamber season.

here's a small list of repertoire i will be playing:
Stravinsky, Soldier's Tale
Villa-Lobos, Bachianas Brasileiras
Villa-Lobos, Trio for oboe, clarinet, and bassoon
Francaix, Wind Quartet
Nielsen, Woodwind Quintet
various other woodwind quintets

to say that i am entirely exhausted and overwhelmed by the amount of music i am learning is an understatement.  so is saying that i am THRILLED about what the next few months have in store for me musically!  i'm feeling quite fortunate these days.

at 9:30 tonight i sat down for another round of bassooning - dropped a reed into my water, put my bassoon together, put it in my bassoon stand, turned on all my fancy lights, adjusted my seat, found my music, hooked my bassoon to my seat strap, took my reed out of the water, and right at the moment i was about to put it on my bocal realized i was entirely WAY too exhausted to get anything done that i would deem as productive.  so i packed it all up.  no joke.

then i high-tailed it to the oxxo before 10pm so i could buy a bottle of wine (you can break pretty much any traffic law you can imagine here, but you can't buy alcohol after 10pm).

now, i'll sit with my glass of wine and listen to a good chunk of this music i'm learning.

zero complaints.  tons of inspiration.  heaps of growing and learning.