Recital COMPLETION!

So as of yesterday at 4:20ish pm, an event that I had been dreading for 3.25 years finally happened. I no longer have to live in constant peril of my senior recital! Hooray! Actually, it was kinda fun. Meghanne did my hair, which took a long time. A very long time. And a TON of bobby pins. It went in stages. First was the curling process:


One curl came out looking really cool! Also, my hair looks slightly blonde here. Weird.


While Meghanne curled, I played with sticky tack that I found on the table.


The curls left me looking a little like Shirley Temple, so then we put them up.


Then Meghanne did my makeup too, and then it was off to rehearse some Bach and Mozart before performing it for real. Then the recital happened!

Analysis:

Bach - violin and company, sweet. Jillian - decent

Mozart - decent

Intermission - spectacular

Herzogenberg - movement 1, fantastic; movement 2, decent; movement 3, mostly in tune; movement 4....apparently unnoticeable near disaster! But we ended together, so it was ok.

Saint-Saens - my embouchure was tired, so with that in consideration, decent

All in all, maybe not my best work, but everyone that was there said it sounded good, so I guess I'll take that. Let's just hope that grad school auditions are up to par by February!

Post-recital, we had a party! Lots of people came, including but not limited to:

My lovely apartment! (Note: please pardon the blurriness of all of these pictures. My camera is slowly dying.)


And our moms!


And Nathan, Sarah, and Andrew!


A lot of other people were there too, but I don't have pictures of them on my camera. Sad! (If you happen to have some, I'd love them!)

Finally, the day was over, and we took the bobby pins out of my hair. Whoa.


I needed some help with that, I guess...



Then I went to bed. All in all, a good day! And now I don't have to think about it anymore!