Quotes

Some quotes from my Facebook profile...

"I do not know what I seem to the world, but to myself I appear to have been like a boy playing upon the seashore and diverting myself by now and then finding a smoother pebble or prettier shell than ordinary, while the great ocean of truth lay before me all undiscovered." - Sir Isaac Newton

All that is gold does not glitter; not all those that wander are lost.
~ J. R. R. Tolkien

Even a small star shines in the darkness.
~ Finnish proverb

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood.
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
~ Robert Frost

This above all; to thine own self be true.
~ William Shakespeare

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
~ Leo Tolstoy

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did.
So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
~ Samuel Clemens (a.k.a. Mark Twain)

Dreams are illustrations . . . from the book your soul is writing about you.
~ Marsha Norman

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light
~ Plato

We are told to let our light shine, and if it does, we won't need to tell anybody it does.
Lighthouses don't fire cannons to call attention to their shining - they just shine.
~ Dwight L. Moody

There they stand, the innumerable stars, shining in order like a living hymn, written in light.
~ N.P. Willis

Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original:
whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will,
nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.
~ C. S. Lewis

The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.
~ Jean Jacques Rousseau

Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

"I was obliged to work hard. Whoever is equally industrious will succeed just as well."
~ Johann Sebastian Bach

"I carry my thoughts about with me for a long time... before writing them down... once I have grasped a theme. I shall not forget it even years later. I change many things, discard others, and try again and again until I am satisfied; then, in my head... [the work] rises, it grows, I hear and see the image n front of me from every angle... and only the labor of writing it down remains... I turn my ideas into tones that resound, roar, and rage until at last they stand before me in the form of notes."
~ Ludwig van Beethoven

"Your ears will always lead you right, but you must know why."
~ Anton Webern

Franz Schubert - "Some people come into our lives, leave footprints on our hearts, and we are never the same."

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - "Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius."

Grades

Oboe - A
Piano - A
Opera Theater - A
Choir - A
Carillon - A
Recital Class - P (pass)
Voice - B (still don't understand it. I passed my barrier)
Theory - B (GRATEFUL!)
Aural Skills - B (YAY! AND NEVER AGAIN!)
Opera History - B (Ok, I did my own analysis on the opera since there was no publication of one).
18th Century - B (yep...ive never aced a class of his, though i have aced tests)
Collegium Musicum - C (partially her fault, partially my fault. She gave me the instrument a week b4 exams. I didn't drop everything I was doing to learn a little ditty for her. Oh well.)

Long Time, No Password

It has been a good long while since I last posted a blog. Why? I lost my password. And the computer had saved my email address as ",com" instead of ".com" which complicated things a bit, since I didn't notice it at first. So, everything is now working.

Carmen was a successful run both in Hattiesburg and at Thalia Mara Hall in Jackson. Hilary did a fantastic job (student Carmen) as did Fenlon. I had fun and met a lot of new friends. I also lost one during that production. My old roommate who I thought would be a good roommate since we were both in the same field and had a lot of common interests did not work out. Apparently, she has been diagnosed with OCD, which is Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, and freaks out about every little thing that is done different from her way. I couldn't handle the emotional toll it was taking on me. She started the process of moving out and I was grateful to have a private room during exams.
I just don't need to have myself associate with people like that.

The handbell tour went off without a hitch. There is this one new guy in the group, Ryan, who is constantly getting on my nerves. He gives the impression that he's better than everyone else. One day, he bought Shipley's for the morning theory class and I thanked him for bringing it. He didn't even mutter a "you're welcome." I asked him why he always acts like this. He replied "because i'm evil." Now, I may be naive in some ways, but in a way this pisses me off. Why? Ryan is the pianist/organist at a baptist church in Petal and he gives the Christian air about himself on Facebook, but he sure as heck doesn't act like it to other people. He may just like aggravating me, like an annoying little brother, but I really wish he would stop.

I finally did play the Shostakovich in recital class. Drs. Leventhal, Ragsdale, and Moak said I did a fine job. I didn't see Nicholson afterwards. And it was Young's last time to play piano with me. (frown). She's gone back home to New York for good. I am going to miss you girl!

Just recently, I got back from a Steinway seminar in Metairie LA hosted by famed piano technician, Franz Mohr. What a great seminar. He Van Cliburn's piano there as well as the piano of Vladimir Horowitz. I got to play on both Steinways! Also, the dealership we were at had one of the Steinway Showcase pianos called the Rhapsody, commemorating George Gershwin's 100th birthday. Twas a blue piano and it had a very pretty tone. The image of my hands is me on Horowitz's piano and then the other piano is the Gershwin.

I miss my Mark. I haven't seen him hardly at all this semester. We haven't seen each other regularly since March really. Tis sad. I'll be down at USM this summer taking some classes and doing an apprenticeship. He's working on a show and I will make it a priority to see him everyday!

Still working on the blanket for Dr. Beard's baby. Shouldn't be long now. Just keep popping in movies, crocheting, sore hands, crochet some more...though I do need more white yarn.