This is a little bit of a rant, so brace yourself. Why is it that the world seems to have terrible rhythm? Or at least it seems to lately. I have been noticing as of late how many of my students and people that I play with have issues with rhythm/tempo. As a product of […]
Author: sandyclarinet
After achieving my dream of graduating from Eastman with my MM degree in 2009, I chose to not to go back to school for a doctorate (which is what many musicians do after their masters degree) and decided to go for it and pursue a full time performance job. After over a year of working an office "day job" and auditioning like crazy, I have won a job with the U.S. Navy fleet bands and will be shipping out in May 2011. But my auditioning adventures are not over, there is a position open in the premiere Navy Band in Washington D.C.! I will be auditioning for that position in January 2011.
Here I document my successes, my failures, and my overall thoughts on life.
As of my last post, my schedule was pretty ridiculous…I was not looking forward to being so busy. Well, since my last post, our awesome congress decided to let the government shut down. Luckily, we are still being paid, but there’s no money for gas for our vehicles to get to gigs! So we are […]
Lately I’ve been struggling to be motivated to practice something that’s not ensemble music. Because, let’s be honest, that stuff doesn’t always make you better (unless its Grainger’s Molly on the Shore! Haha…I played the solo part a few weeks ago at a wind ensemble concert – talk about sweating bullets!). But finally some great […]
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Teaching may be my calling…
This week was the first week of official band camp for the kids I’m working with at a local high school in Virginia Beach. This is no joke for them, 10 hours a day Monday through Friday!! And they get to do it again next week. I get exhausted just thinking about it. Anyway, most […]
As you can probably imagine because of my lack of blog posts, I have been insanely busy this summer. So a vacation was exactly what I needed. After spending two weeks in Colorado, I have been thrown back into reality and I am back to work…plus I’m starting a new teaching gig at a high […]
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Reinecke Trio
This past week I got to do something that I haven’t had a chance to do since I was in school. I got to play real chamber music! My co-worker, who is a horn player, put together a chamber music recital with a bunch of us from the band. We played the Trio for Horn, […]
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Years of service: 2
So two years ago Thursday I embarked on an adventure that I never dreamed I would take on…joining the military! I can’t believe that its been two years already. It seems just yesterday that I auditioned and signed my life away! (and remember when I had to wait 8 months to leave for boot camp? […]
Ok, so I’ve been really bad about posting anything lately. Oops….time just got away from me. I’ve been extremely busy at work the last month (ish) because of woodwind quintet rehearsals and gigs, wind ensemble rehearsals and a concert last weekend, my two (!) collateral duties, and the biggest thing…the Virginia International Tattoo! We’ve been […]
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My first Navy trip!
Last weekend was my first official overnight trip with the band. I went with the woodwind quintet (which I’m in) and the brass quintet, plus our boss (the band officer in charge of Fleet Forces Band). We traveled several hours south to South Carolina, to a little town called Pawley’s Island, which is just south […]
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Practice tool
I wanted to write a post about a new practice tool that I’ve really come to love…my iPhone. There are several apps that I’ve been using lately to help with my practicing (some have actually replaced other things that I don’t need to lug around anymore), and to make practicing more fun. Its pretty amazing […]
Sandy Herrera, Clarinet 