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How to deal with losing your principal spot

1. Cry (a lot) 2. Work harder 3. Get it back

Someone just walked into the practice room I was in, pulled a door stop out of the wall and grabbed a drumstick out of the hole it left behind and left.

me: *hums tchaikovsky*

kid: gosh what is up with you and your classical russian music

me: i loOOOOOOOOOVE RUSSSSSSSSSIANNNNN MUUUUUUUSICCCCCCCCCC

pianistical

I’m so pissed off at the members of an ensemble thing we’re doing. Another violinist and I started it, I wrote the music for it, they signed up for it. But they don’t try. I can clearly tell that they’re not trying, some of them only show up to like half the rehearsals and complain all the while. The performance for school music stuff is next week Wednesday and we want to rehearse on both Monday and Tuesday (usually we only rehearse on Tuesdays) and they’re complaining about the added rehearsal. Like no. If you want to go up there and humiliate yourself you can, but I’m not letting you drag down the rest of the ensemble. I’m done. I’m sick and tired of people not trying. I don’t care how we do it, I’ll do whatever it takes to get it to sound good. Either we do it well, or we don’t do it at all.

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Me: *points out where we are in music*

Stand partner: oh I know, I'll catch up with you guys later

second violinist: have you played the telemann viola concerto?

me: yes I have!

stand partner: AND she learned it when she was 2.

me:

me: ...more like 2 years ago

#THIS HAPPENED AT REHEARSAL

rip violas

me: DAD DAD DAD DAD YO-YO MA IS COMING TO PLAY AT THE CONCERT HALL!!!!!!!!!

dad: cool!

dad: who is yo-yo ma

shout out to all the kids that are keeping up with school work while balancing sports and the arts. keep it going, we are proud of you.

popped a blister after excessive pizzicato during a rehearsal of a piece that I arranged. I basically caused my own problem. "or maybe it's because you don't practice enough." -my mom

open a musician’s closet and you’ll find

black

#black dresses #black shoes #black tights #black blouses #black hairties #black skirts #black everything

tfw the concert dress isn’t long enough

#:(

*watches performance of orchestra in Moscow*

me: do Russians always have to rush?

*sight reading*

violinists: *mimicking sounds of screaming mice*

principal violist: this is why I don't play violin

cellist: *drops bow* *shrieks*

conductor: are you okay?

cellist: yes but this is my good bow...

principal second: do you need some water?

I am playing the same piece in two orchestras.

my two conductors interpret the piece very differently.

oh no

me: *plays double stops*

mom: ew ew no

me: what?

mom: you're hitting other strings

me: oh yeah that's on purpose

mom: no stop it sounds like someone else is playing with you and that's creepy

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