Auditions at Universities of Music
I woke up early in the morning so that my dad wouldn't be late, but then my mom told me that he didn't look correctly yesterday, therefore I woke up too early. It didn'T matter though, I played a half hour of violin.
We went to church as usual, and nothing special was going on except for the special welcome for the new first graders. They were so cute with their school bag and their little "Schultüte". They got a Bible from the church as a present for them finally going to school.
My mom had some pizza prepared for lunch so when we came home we ate. There are also still tomatos and cucumbers in our garden. They are so yummy. When we just started to eat my brother called us to let us know that he needed to be picked up from the train station. Since Tabea was at our neighbors and Marion ate with her friend I decided to go instead of my mom. I finished eating when I came home and after that I took a half hour nap.
The baptism ceremony took about one and a half hours and the two teenagers got baptized in a pond with pretty cold water. I bet you it was around 15°C!! They said they didn't feel it though. It was really nice and afterwards we went to the church in Holzhausen and there were cakes and coffee and tea prepared for those 100 persons who attended the baptism. I got home around 8:30 and my parents came home even one hour hour later!! My sister Marion is still not home yet.
When I got home I checked out the different universities of music that we have in Baden-Württemberg. This took me quite a while. There are only about 6 universities throughout the state. The auditions are even harder than I thought they were going to be! I am definitely positive that if I will get accepted at all, it will only be one university :( It is extremely hard and therefore I have to practice even more. Especially sight-reading in piano. It is required by most universities and you know that I am horrible at that. Karl-Heiz, the director of the brass ensemble, who has been a music teacher for 35 years or more said, that with what he knows right now, he wouldn't pass the test. He himself says that it is extremely hard, and he doesn't understand this at all. Well I just take this to tell myself that I have to work extremely hard for the next year if I want to make it. I will try to be around for the audition dates for the winter semester if it is possible, because I fear that I have to try again a half year later anyway, so if I will start auditioning for the sommer semester 2007 I will lose even more time, because then I can start Winter 2007. If it is not possible then it isn't possible, but if there is a possibility I will try to make it happen. I noticed today, when I was playing a violin song in church for the Sabbatschlussandacht that I get extremely nervous and my ability is only half of what I have at home, which means first of all I have to practice presenting hard music, and I have to get better a whole lot as well. We will see how it goes. I will let you know :)
Now I will go to sleep... my head aches and I have rehearsal tomorrow. I also have tons of homework and 7 pages of French vocabulary as I told you yesterday.
We went to church as usual, and nothing special was going on except for the special welcome for the new first graders. They were so cute with their school bag and their little "Schultüte". They got a Bible from the church as a present for them finally going to school.
My mom had some pizza prepared for lunch so when we came home we ate. There are also still tomatos and cucumbers in our garden. They are so yummy. When we just started to eat my brother called us to let us know that he needed to be picked up from the train station. Since Tabea was at our neighbors and Marion ate with her friend I decided to go instead of my mom. I finished eating when I came home and after that I took a half hour nap.
The baptism ceremony took about one and a half hours and the two teenagers got baptized in a pond with pretty cold water. I bet you it was around 15°C!! They said they didn't feel it though. It was really nice and afterwards we went to the church in Holzhausen and there were cakes and coffee and tea prepared for those 100 persons who attended the baptism. I got home around 8:30 and my parents came home even one hour hour later!! My sister Marion is still not home yet.
When I got home I checked out the different universities of music that we have in Baden-Württemberg. This took me quite a while. There are only about 6 universities throughout the state. The auditions are even harder than I thought they were going to be! I am definitely positive that if I will get accepted at all, it will only be one university :( It is extremely hard and therefore I have to practice even more. Especially sight-reading in piano. It is required by most universities and you know that I am horrible at that. Karl-Heiz, the director of the brass ensemble, who has been a music teacher for 35 years or more said, that with what he knows right now, he wouldn't pass the test. He himself says that it is extremely hard, and he doesn't understand this at all. Well I just take this to tell myself that I have to work extremely hard for the next year if I want to make it. I will try to be around for the audition dates for the winter semester if it is possible, because I fear that I have to try again a half year later anyway, so if I will start auditioning for the sommer semester 2007 I will lose even more time, because then I can start Winter 2007. If it is not possible then it isn't possible, but if there is a possibility I will try to make it happen. I noticed today, when I was playing a violin song in church for the Sabbatschlussandacht that I get extremely nervous and my ability is only half of what I have at home, which means first of all I have to practice presenting hard music, and I have to get better a whole lot as well. We will see how it goes. I will let you know :)
Now I will go to sleep... my head aches and I have rehearsal tomorrow. I also have tons of homework and 7 pages of French vocabulary as I told you yesterday.
posted by Kerstin @ 10:14 PM
1 Comments:
At 18/9/05 15:55,
Anonym said…
IT sounds like you have quite a road a head of you. I can't imagine what I would do to try to get accepted at one of these schools. Let's just put it this way... I would NEVER have a chanve. You on the other hand, I think you have a real chance. I didn't say you are sure to make it, but what I know is that you have a chance. You definitely have the capability to be great. It is just the road that will be tuff. Obviously it is a road less taken by so many because it is HARD and challenging. I know you cand do it!
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