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Root Position Life

I am meg. I am a student a musician a something, hopefully going to be- musicologist. I generally want to make this a music blog. About my well musical being, if there is such a thing. 

Saturday, February 11, 2006

8:27 AM - After.

I have been so busy to even touch this with a ten foot pole. Last night after eight months of work I had the One Hundred Years Ago concert with Steve. Wow, I mean seriously wow, it went incredibly well. Steve played absolutely incredible like always, completing each of these technically trying pieces with the most talented style. Its bad enough he had to prep for such a big concert and on top of it deal with me, I give total kudos to this awesome guy! Ives, Janacek, and Scriabin you have enriched my life beyond what I ever thought was possible. After the glory and the huge ego trip, ehhh, of just having the best week ever (Steelers win the Super Bowl, seeing Sigur Ros kick off this American tour, getting interviewed for a magazine, having my poster picked for an upcoming concert, then interviewing a role model and writing a paper on them, then this concert.... YES, THAT WAS ALL THIS WEEK!) I am just sitting here dumbfounded. After the concert I had a retired musicologist come up to me, who just happened to be in the crowd (as well as a bunch of my current/former professors, friends, parents and the president of my university), told me I did a great job and as she tells me she's a musicologist and I reply "I want to be you!" Classic Meg, the Muppet Lives on!
Nonetheless, I cannot write completely about this experience because - 1 I am so full of many ideas and emotions right now that I might just explode on my poor iBook (oh yeah and this is the morning after too, I am considerable more tame than I once was!) and 2 There is so much more to do now, new projects on the horizon. This might be the well first major time, looking back at symposium last year, that was nothing compared to this concert, but it isn't the last so I better get busy!?... I do want to take a step back now and really enjoy every day here at UMF, it is incredible. Possibly thank the people who push me to be who I am and what I am more. I am incredibly thankful for all of this, I don't think most people realize their impact on a person.
So now I have the rest of this semester, NY trip ahead of me, possibly a few NY trips actually! Then the Joyce concert next fall!? Also now I really want to (since we got the new grant!! More toys!!) to compose a lot more. I want to finish four2minutes and start the Italian Catalogs. I REALLY want to set the Italia piece to a string quartet, maybe I can get some friends to play it for me when I am done. I might originally do it MIDI and then work out the kinks and have it recorded with the quartet. The EA class I am TAing is fostering so many new ideas. It's incredible to have an open forum with peers to create music then talk about it. You know what!?!?!?!?! I can just fall over go into a seizure and start writhing on the floor right now I am so happy and in the music place in my heart it makes me so incredibly happy. Okay gitty, I know I can't help it but I am here finally! And boy is it great!

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