My concert went very well. I was so proud of myself. I performed bolero composed by Willem Ten Have and Gigue by E. Dall Abaco. Both songs sounded great. I really enjoyed making music with all the instructors and campers. In my camp recording section there are links for my performance. Hope you enjoy.

I am preparing for seating auditions and my audition for the honors chamber group. I will keep you guys posted.

Until  later…. Angelina 

I told the coaches that my pieces weren’t challenging me. I am not performing the Bach but I am going to play Bolero by William Ten Have Op. 11 Allegro. Bolero is a pretty tough song with lots of shifting and harmonics. I am also playing one of the prices she assigned me triple the speed now. I am enjoying camp a lot more now.

Today I found out that there are 7 different kinds of arpeggios to learn per key. They are very challenging but I am going to tackle them just like I did to my 3 octave scales

Until next time… Angelina 

Yesterday was my first day at my last music camp and the last full week of summer then school starts back up again. The camp I am participating in is an intensive practice camp. I was excited to see all the coaches and meet new people but, my pieces are too easy for me. My pieces don’t show what I can do as a well trained growing musician. I plan on talking to them tonight and see if I can play Bachs cello suite No. 1 prelude and corrente. We shall see, I always try to challenge myself to improve my skills and these two pieces don’t seem to do that.  

On a more exciting note I got excepted to the Musician as Citizen (MAC) program. The MAC program is a volunteer program that helps with Neighborhood Strings. Neighborhood strings is a program that gives inner city kids the opportunity to learn a string instrument. WCMS puts on the program and gives each neighborhood strings kid an instrument of their choice a teacher and lessons.WCMS only picks two teens to participate in the MAC program each year. I will not only help with the participating kids but I will also get additional couching  on giving presentations and improving my communication skills. I will be helping the kids and the program every week! I am so excited for this opportunity. I will share my essay below. Also I sent in my honors chamber essay and will share it with you too. Hope you enjoy.

Here was my essay I wrote for the MAC program: 

Musician as Citizen

The Musician as Citizen Program interests me in many ways. Some ways it interests me are that I love helping others and my community, I am interested to work with kids who don’t have the same privileges I have, and I love music and I love my community and I think I will have lots of fun.

One way the Musician as Citizen Program interest me is that I love helping others and my community. Helping your community become stronger can be fun and simple. I am in my schools National Junior Honors Society and at the end of the year there was locker clean out. You might think it sounds useless but it was really fun and it gave back to the community. We get bins for trash which we threw away, bins for recycling which we recycled to prevent overfilling landfills and pollution, and a bin for things we could donate to people who can’t afford new school supplies and other items like sweatshirts that are in good condition. I know that’s not the same as this program but it has the same point which is giving back to the community and helping others who don’t have the same privileges I have which brings me to the next reason why this program interest me.
Some kids don’t have the same tools I have had to become a better musician. I have a wonderful teacher who teaches me once a week on an above par violin with a great selection of repertoire. I am not a prodigy and not every kid is, but, every kid big or small, rich or poor has some hidden talent musically inside them but they need the right tools to find it; an instrument, a teacher, determination and a fun environment. I know I will be able to help the kids of Neighborhood Strings find their inner musician.
One last reason the MAC Program interests me is that I love music and I love my community and I think I will have lots of fun mentoring and helping other kids who enjoy playing music.
If I am chosen to participate in this program my goals would be to teach kids to enjoy making music, become more grateful of what I have, and have fun making a difference in my community.
Until tomorrow….

I have been very busy lately with auditions in a few weeks for my youth orchestra summer coming to an end and one summer camp left before I begin high school at the end of August. I also just got a piano which I have been self teaching myself when I am not playing the violin. Speaking of violin I am actually playing Allegretto by Mozart and Gigue by Dall Abaco instead of Csárdás at my intensive practice camp. For my youth orchestra seating audition I have to play an excerpt from Night on Bald Mountain by Mussorgsky. I am a Lao auditioning fora honors Chamber string quartet and I am going to play prelude and corrente from Bachs cello suite no 1. As you already know I am auditioning for senior districts so I have to also continue learning Csárdás.

Until later…. Angelina 

Sorry I didn’t write in a while. This is going to be how about how I felt about Taylor Swift’s 1989 world tour. 

Last Saturday night I was at Gillete stadium staring down at the stage anxiously waiting for the main act of the night Taylor Swift to perform. Before she performs songs from her album and many more, Shawn Mendes, Vance Joy, and Haim opened up the night. I did not now what was happening or each song she was performing when she was until she performed it. There were no programs to tell you when each song is. Everything sounded amazing there were speakers everywhere and three jumbotrons. When we got to the stadium we got wristbands that lit up when Taylor wanted to. It was really cool. She had so many costume changes. I loved every single one of her outfits. She also played different instruments. She played a keyboard and her guitar and sang. At the end of the concert there were fireworks and we couldn’t even see anything. I loved that concert so much.  

Until later…. Angelina