Tuesday/Dienstag
9:24 a.m. - David knocks on my door to wake me up
9:45 a.m. - 7 of us leave to bike to the Music School
10:00ish - David's bike chain falls off uphill; we walk
10:15 or 10: 30ish - Arrive at music school for introduction to facility and office workers
11:00-1:00 p.m. - I practice happily in the Music School
1:10-1:35 p.m. - I bike home
1:35 p.m. - Leftovers for lunch
2:45 p.m. - Leave for German class
3:00-4:30 p.m. - German class
5:00 p.m. - Three-Penny Opera meeting
6:30 p.m. - Dinner at the Backfactory
7:00-9:00 p.m. - I practice piano in one of the available rooms at the Theatre
9:00-9:40 p.m. - Walk home with dictionary through downtown, looking up every word I see and don't know (best part)
It was nice to practice on actual pianos finally. In the morning I worked on 10 of the Morike-Lieder I've learned or will learn, and I also fit in some solo practicing--David mentioned possibly doing a joint solo concert at the end, so I hope that works out scheduling wise and note learning wise!
In addition to practicing, I really want to put in more time for learning German. The language seems to be really logical and not too hard to pick up. There are tons of words that are just combinations of words, so I often end up looking up two words in a dictionary when I'm looking at one big one. I'm really loving every minute of the German class, too. Our teacher is great. He speaks extra slowly with extremely clear annunciation and really encourages us to use whatever amount of German we know to ask him and each other questions. He's also a hoot. There's never a dull moment with him in the class, and I think that's the consensus amongst everyone else.
After class, I received some music to work on at the Three-Penny Opera meeting. I feel bad because apparently some changes with the theatre happened at the last minute that instead of doing the full Three Penny Opera, we are only doing 5 songs, so singers who came all the way from the U.S. to have full roles learned to add to their resume will only be doing 1 or 2 songs at most. Some were really hurt by that, but it was a last minute change caused by a miscommunication that could not be controlled by our program. Instead, we are adding 10 songs from Benjamin Britten's Beggar's opera, so I have scores for that, too. I believe massive rehearsal/coaching scheduling will begin tomorrow and go on intensely for the next few days, so I will be learning some music really fast!
I believe that symbol beneath the barcode means you can trade in the plastic for a few cents at a store.
Leftover refrigerated potato-pasta-ham-cheese casserole from the restaurant Sunday eaten cold for lunch Tuesday--delicious.
My hallway in the hotel. I'm in 16.
Looking the other way. The door on the left takes you to the stairs to go down to the lobby or up 2 more flights of stairs.
Welcome mat!
Hotel parking lot. Those two vans are our vehicles.
On the way back from my bike ride from the Music School, I thought it would be interesting to have a picture of that random stand by Kaufland, the market (Kauf=buy...Buyland?)
A view inside and outside the music school.
No comments:
Post a Comment