1.14.10

Warm-Up/Routine: PC (35 minutes)

Re-Warm: (10 minutes)

Excerpts: Heldenleben, Bach Mass in B minor (25 minutes)

Solos: Strauss 1, mvt 3 from memory (10 minutes)

Other: played through Cooke Rondo; Planets- sections from Jupiter & Mars (30 minutes)

blogging is going to happen...

because it will help me practice all the music i need to right now...

so today=

35 minute warm-up/routine

1 hour rehearsal with my (awesome) accompanist Kelleen and DL

50 minutes rehearsing the 1st movement of the Brahms Trio w/Rose and Janell (it sounded pretty good in most sections after we worked some stuff out)...I'm very excited to play perform it sometime this school year

45 minutes on solo rep (penny game for most of it, recording myself starts tomorrow!)

25 minutes on excerpts from the ICO audition list (Water Music, Brahms 1, Beethoven 2 & Mahler 4, 2nd mvt)

Plus...listening for about an hour to some Mahler, Wilder Sonata, and excerpts-must learn Schoenberg this weekend!

time to get back on the practice blog train...

Long time no post...

Warm-Up/Routine (Hill- 45 minutes)

Piantoni (8 minutes): steady tempo esp. in the the multi-meter sections...

Romanza (10 minutes): phrasing and muted double tonguing section

Then...(after a run and a nice long break)

Re-Warm (10 minutes)

Mahler 4 mvt 1 (18 minutes): basically just drilling the sections that will probably be asked on the audition with a met

stopped horn (10 minutes): scales, intervals, etc

---mini-break---

Mahler 2 mvt 3 (10 minutes): drilling

Mahler 2 mvt 1 (15 minutes): focus on stopped horn and style

Mahler 2 mvt 5 (15 minutes): just playing through anything on the off-chance something is asked so I am comfortable with it...

---mini-break---

Kopprasch #15/cool-down (10 minutes): down an octave (what fun...)

Feb 28/Mar 1

Saturday:

Warm-Up/Routine: 45 minutes

Mullholland Reh: way too long

Hindemith Quartet Reh: 45 minutes

BREAK

Re-Warm: 10 minutes

Kopprasch #45: 12 minutes

Kopprasch #10 in d: 8 minutes

Excerpts (Pavane, Tchaik 4, Shosti 5, Beethoven 9, Short Call-run thru and spend a few minutes on each if needed); (Mahler 3, Haydn #31 [2nd horn], Tchaik 5-practice):

BREAK

Play through Bach and Mozart 4 without stopping to check how endurance is...

Warm-down

today...

Ze 28th of October

Warm-Up (long tone scales and arpeggios; lip slurs/flexies; 2 & 3 octave staccato scales)

Mozart 4 (mvt 2)

Elegie

Brahms 3

Beethoven 9

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Re-warm up for band audition and horn class

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Mozart 4 mvt 1 (listening to Peter Damm-amazing recording!)

Tchaik 5 (listening to Chicago recording and fixing little details)

Low horn exercises

This practice session was well over an hour, but time flew by...and I only worked on 3 things...but I got a lot of little things better so it was worth it...

update...

Thursday Oct. 23:

I was exhausted from getting up at 5:40am and traveling to Nebraska, but I did practice about an hour and a half in the afternoon before I just couldn't concentrate anymore...

Warm-Up (long)

Scales/Articulation

Romance

Kopprasch

Mozart 4 (mvt 1)-memorization work

Brahms 3

Shosti 5

Friday Oct. 24:

Warm-Up

Scales

Elegie

Mozart 4 (mvts 2 & 3)

BREAK

Kopprasch

Ein Heldenleben

Tchaik 4

Beethoven 3

Shosti 5

Saturday Oct 25

Spiderweb Warm-Up

Scales

Mozart 4 (all-memorizing work)

Beethoven 9

Till

Pavane

Don Quixote

Sunday Oct 26

Warm-Up

Dress Reh

Concert 

Monday Oct 27

Spiderweb Warm-Up

Elegie

Mozart 4 (mvt 2)

Brahms 3

BREAK

Lip Slurs

Scales

Mozart 4 (mvt 3)

Wind Ensemble audition music

Beethoven 9

Shosti 5

BREAK

Orchestra

MONDAY

Warm-Up- long tones on scales; slurs; articulation work

Wendell Rider scale patterns (all majors and harmonic minors)

Low Horn exercises (from Rider book)

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Romance

Brahms 3

Ein Heldenleben

Beethoven 3

Shosti 5

TUESDAY

Spiderweb Warm-Up

Kopprasch 34 (can play all at 82 bpm)

Mozart 4 (isolated parts of mvt 1 w/met and worked on all of mvt 3)

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Short Scherezade Sectional

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Scale exercise 

Slurs

Articulation work (major scales around cycle)

Mozart 4 (mvt 2)

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WW Quintet rehearsal

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Run through excerpt list:

Beethoven 3 & 9

Brahms 3

Ravel Pavane

Shosti 5

Tchaik 4 & 5

Till

Heldenleben

Siegfried Short Call

Don Quixote