Everything Else from Next To Normal

I Want Freedom For My Decisions

When I am On The Phone With My Teacher and Say Something Really Dumb

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When I Forgot Where I Put My Instrument.. an hour later

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When I Am Borderline Failing Theory

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When My Teacher Tells Me To Fix My Intonation In A Week

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When A Famous Orchestra Member Walks By

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When A Trumpet Player Wont Stop Playing Stravinsky's Petrushka Next To Me

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When My Friends And I Are going To An Orchestra Concert

 

When Someone Asks Me To Play Expressively

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When My Teacher And Conductor Ask For Two Different Things

 

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When Someone Asks Me To Cover Their Parts In Orchestra

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When Wer're In Tech For the Opera Performance of My Life

 

When Your Conductor Finally Wants To Try Something Up To Tempo With The New Mixed Meter

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When I Come Back To My Practice Room and See a cat In It

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When I Cant Tell If The Conductor Is Looking At Me

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When I Got Back To A Practice Room After A Lesson

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When Someone Tells Me I Need To Practice More

 

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When The Maestro Works On Intonation

 

"Color is life, for a world without color seems dead.
As a flame produces light, light produces color.
As intonation lends color to the spoken word, color lends spiritually realized sound to a form." ~ Johannes Itten"

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When Someone Hot Compliment My Playing Style

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When Someone Catches Me Staring At Them In Orchestra

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When Someone Asks To Borrow My Lube-Valve Oil

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When I Walk Into A Lesson Too Early

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When I First Played The Orpheum Stage

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When I Finished All My Summer Recordings

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When We Have To Play Don Juan

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When I Tell Someone I Recorded The Rehearsal

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When My Mom Encourages Me To Go Along And Get Some Good Practice Time

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When Someone Wears Black Jeans As Concert Attire

 

When My Accompanist Rushes

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When I Have To Make Small Talk In The Car Ride Home With My Teacher

 

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When I Ruin My No-Carb Diet On Donut Day, Once Again

 

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When The Conductor Tells Us To Look Up

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When I Am Still Learning How To Double Tongue Loosley

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When It's My Turn To Play In Studio Class

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When I Was Asked If I Play Any Instruments At My Local Clinic

 

When I Sneak Into The Symphonic Band Folders As A Freshmen to Check Their Rep

 

When The Orchestra Conductor Is All Sweaty And Wants To Congratulate Me After The Concert

 

When I Finished Undergrad

 

When I Feel All I Do Is Spend Time In The Practice Room

 

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When I Am Waiting For My Friends To Stop Practicing

 

When My Mom Can No Longer Take Out My Concert Dress In The Waist

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When My Teacher Wants Me To Work On Fundamentals

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When Couples Have Too Much PDA At Concerts

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When My Stand Partner Keeps Freaking Out about Playing In Tune.

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When I Realize I Am Sitting In Someone Seat In Orchestra

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When I am Trying To Describe A Concert

 

When Kids In My Studio Try to Critique Me

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When Someone Just Can't Stop Stop Talking During A Concert

 

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When I Have Back To Back Damn Rehearsals

 

When My Teacher Wants To Talk About Summer Festival Auditions

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When I Don't Want To Practice For A 9AM Rehearsal

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