Woke up at about 16:00 and went to my voice teacher's house. We had a lesson till 17:00 - during the exercises we got up to G-sharp! The teacher complimented me on the way I sang today.
After the lesson I went to Old Arbat and changed some Dollars to Rubles, and had a meal at KFC.
Then I did some shopping, and came home.
Practiced violin for an hour - I'm getting a better, cleaner sound now. Not satisfactory still though.
I spent half an hour tuning the piano's C strings to my tuning forks - if Marina's to come to my house at all - the piano's gotta be not a millitone lower than standard: higher if necessary. Concert tuning is almost a semitone higher than International tuning, so aiming at at least International tuning is about right, but not lower. The piano was obviously lower before. Now the C's are in place, and I tuned a 1/3 of the two middle octaves as well.
Then it was 22:00 and it was too late to tune any more notes.
I started composing. Composed till 11 am - wrote a whole strings part to my developing Piano Concerto.
The driver was late, he had to change tires to winter ones - it rained a bit during the night, and the temperature today went below 0°C, so the roads were all frozen. Winter's here.
In the end I was only late by 10 minutes, and had to wait anyway, so no big deal.
Had a piano lesson. Not much fun - I didn't practice piano during the last week, and I could feel the effect... The teacher asked me to practice Mozart a lot, so that I can be examined and graded on it, and also so that we can concentrate on Beethoven... Hah! - Right after the lesson I went to the library and (after an hour's wait) got the accompaniment for Bach's Violin Concerto No. 1 in A minor - the one Marina plays. Gonna learn it.
Though, at the beginning of the piano lesson it was a bit fun - we played my new 'Piano Concerto', heh heh, she played the strings part, and I played the piano part (I made photocopies on the way, especially for that). Doesn't sound as good on the piano, as with strings, even computer-generated ones. Anyhow, the teacher gave me a compliment regarding the sound of the composition.
Afterwards, I had a composition lesson. It went quite well. The teacher was satisfied with the work I've done, and was quite impressed with the 'Piano Concerto'. He decided that he won't intervene in my writing of this piece, as - first, there is already a lot there, and if I get too many 'comments' I might get discouraged, and second, because it's much more like what I used to write before, on my own, though he said that he can feel results from our lessons in this composition, and is pleased about that. Great.
I went home.
Prepared myself some chicken, and started tuning the piano. Quite quickly, I tuned the whole of the two middle octaves - this time - perfectly - I've done it, at last. And then I tuned 1 octave from the treble. Sounds amazing. High tuning too, so it's good for tuning the violin by it. I'm pleased.
Thought a lot about Galya today while stuck in traffic (about 3 hours total). Thought about good moments, and about how some bad moments become worse, just because we talk about those little bad moments. Also, thought about how meaningless all that is, comparing with being there and just holding her, and feeling so complete, and like nothing else matters..
Dad phoned. Said he's coming tonight, about 5 pm. Fine.
I decided on the way I'm going to number my composition work. (Every composer does - Mozart put a 'K' with a number, probably stands for 'work' or something in German; Beethoven, and most other popular composers used 'Op' - short for Opus, which means 'work' in latin. I'll use 'C' - short for Composition in English and Сочинение in Russian; quite handy, huh... And clever? :) Nah!)
Well, time to go to bed, 21:00.
After the lesson I went to Old Arbat and changed some Dollars to Rubles, and had a meal at KFC.
Then I did some shopping, and came home.
Practiced violin for an hour - I'm getting a better, cleaner sound now. Not satisfactory still though.
I spent half an hour tuning the piano's C strings to my tuning forks - if Marina's to come to my house at all - the piano's gotta be not a millitone lower than standard: higher if necessary. Concert tuning is almost a semitone higher than International tuning, so aiming at at least International tuning is about right, but not lower. The piano was obviously lower before. Now the C's are in place, and I tuned a 1/3 of the two middle octaves as well.
Then it was 22:00 and it was too late to tune any more notes.
I started composing. Composed till 11 am - wrote a whole strings part to my developing Piano Concerto.
The driver was late, he had to change tires to winter ones - it rained a bit during the night, and the temperature today went below 0°C, so the roads were all frozen. Winter's here.
In the end I was only late by 10 minutes, and had to wait anyway, so no big deal.
Had a piano lesson. Not much fun - I didn't practice piano during the last week, and I could feel the effect... The teacher asked me to practice Mozart a lot, so that I can be examined and graded on it, and also so that we can concentrate on Beethoven... Hah! - Right after the lesson I went to the library and (after an hour's wait) got the accompaniment for Bach's Violin Concerto No. 1 in A minor - the one Marina plays. Gonna learn it.
Though, at the beginning of the piano lesson it was a bit fun - we played my new 'Piano Concerto', heh heh, she played the strings part, and I played the piano part (I made photocopies on the way, especially for that). Doesn't sound as good on the piano, as with strings, even computer-generated ones. Anyhow, the teacher gave me a compliment regarding the sound of the composition.
Afterwards, I had a composition lesson. It went quite well. The teacher was satisfied with the work I've done, and was quite impressed with the 'Piano Concerto'. He decided that he won't intervene in my writing of this piece, as - first, there is already a lot there, and if I get too many 'comments' I might get discouraged, and second, because it's much more like what I used to write before, on my own, though he said that he can feel results from our lessons in this composition, and is pleased about that. Great.
I went home.
Prepared myself some chicken, and started tuning the piano. Quite quickly, I tuned the whole of the two middle octaves - this time - perfectly - I've done it, at last. And then I tuned 1 octave from the treble. Sounds amazing. High tuning too, so it's good for tuning the violin by it. I'm pleased.
Thought a lot about Galya today while stuck in traffic (about 3 hours total). Thought about good moments, and about how some bad moments become worse, just because we talk about those little bad moments. Also, thought about how meaningless all that is, comparing with being there and just holding her, and feeling so complete, and like nothing else matters..
Dad phoned. Said he's coming tonight, about 5 pm. Fine.
I decided on the way I'm going to number my composition work. (Every composer does - Mozart put a 'K' with a number, probably stands for 'work' or something in German; Beethoven, and most other popular composers used 'Op' - short for Opus, which means 'work' in latin. I'll use 'C' - short for Composition in English and Сочинение in Russian; quite handy, huh... And clever? :) Nah!)
Well, time to go to bed, 21:00.
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