Twenty Six

Ok, So I didn't blog yesterday-oops. Yesterday I worked on Barber. I worked on spots in the 1st and 2nd movements with the music open, just checking intonation and bowings/fingerings. I really need to start performing the 2nd movement so I can explore what to do with all the long phrases. Then I worked for about an hour on the 3rd movement. More memory is coming, but I am a bit anxious of pushing myself too fast to memorize this piece and that it will be done incorrectly. Must keep moving on! I practiced it more in rhythms, and thought about having the next note ready whenever I was playing a note (still looking at the music).

Later I rehearsed Brahms 2nd movement and Barber 2nd movement with Aaron. We hadn't rehearsed for a week so it was good to do a run-through. After the initial run through I mentioned that the tempos dragged a little and we tried to fix that in the second run through.