A Busy August

So I would start posting about the rest of my vacation but I don't really want to... I think instead I will wait till I am home. Lets together look forward to what my next week has in store for me.

Monday:

Link crew leader orientation all morning/afternoon long :(

- A five hour meeting regarding how to guide incoming freshman.

Back to marching band :(

- My marching baritone is so heavy and I have barley any muscle strength. Literally my arms hurt just thinking about it.

Starting concert band a St. Marys University :)

- I am a little bit nervous to be playing in such a advanced ensemble but I am also greatly looking forward to the experience and to play Four Scottish Dances by Malcolm Arnold.

Tuesday:

Marching band, again :(

Wednesday:

State fair with the marching band :I

-Marching is gonna suck because it is supposed to be just a scorcher temp wise but my third day at the fair with friends shall be fun.

St. Marys concert band :)

Thursday:

Link crew leaders, day two :I

-really a second day too?

Vocal pedagogy class sit in for a friend at Winona State University :)

-Helping out a friend by letting him give me vocal lessons and coach me through the basics of vocal pedagogy.

Auditions for Hear and Now :)

-Same friend has a acapella vocal ensemble that i will be trying out. Sadly, I am still unsure of what I will sing for auditions due to the fact that they don't want any musicals.

Friday:

Cabaret meeting :)

-Working on stuff for a cabaret concert a friend and I are putting on.

Uggghhhhhhh.. busy week, but it all keeps me going. At least I haven't been bored out of mind once this summer. In honor of this great day in american history I propose that I will post soon with some juicy gossip so be on the lookout!

Wednesday.. The Guthrie

I know I said I would not blog till I get back from vacation, but I just could not do it. Only half way into my adventures away from little Winona and I am just bursting with stories! I will start from the beginning and will progressively move from there (ugghh I hate the forms of there, I am like 80% sure that I am using the wrong one too.) P.s. you need to just pull up this page and then open another tab and browse FB and all of that hoopla because I just put up a new playlist and personally I think it is a pretty kick' mix of tunes!

So Wednesday was a great day. Alarm clock zapped me awake at ten thirty so I did get to sleep in.. slightly Waiting for me upstairs was my grandmother's fantastically amazing oatmeal pancakes. Ohh my heart flips just thinking about them... so good! Just trust me. After shoveling pancake after pancake into my belly I gussied myself up and went to Rogans shoe store and got a new pair of shoes since school is starting soon. There was just plain chaos in Rogans when I was drawn to two pair of pumas; a simple black/white pair and then a grey/limegreen/black pair thankfully to the judgment of my lifeline Megan via phone I chose the schaaweett grey pair. They are pretty cool and I love Pumas because they are so durable/comfortable! I will def post a photo sometime soon of me in them.

Blah, blah... I got home, got ready to leave and then set off for the cities. I always really enjoy the drive to the cities. With most of it surrounded by one side Mississippi river and the other bluffs, it is a very serene travel ventures. Obvs I made my grandma endure some of my rockin' musical tuneage, including How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying, RENT (Original Broadway Cast) and Edges.

Went to dinner at this Italian restraunt that was okay. I very much enjoyed the atmosphere over the actual food. But, I did have one of the best fountain produced Mt. Dews in my whole life.

Sorry so many details, when all you want to hear about is the show. Well I literally cannot say much else, besides that the whole experience was just breathtaking. Personally I just love the newish design of the Guthrie theatre including the darker stain on all their glass, abstract architectural designs and the just the plain enormity of it all. We did not purchase that fantastic of seats being placed in the balcony which is located a bit from the stage, but I found that I actually enjoy seats a little farther back because you can take in more and really no seat is a bad seat... just a different experience. I was already a Tennessee Williams fan before I got to see A Streetcar Named Desire but that performance just confirmed that Tennessee understands that through good text a play can conjure up such a physical and emotional grasp over audiences. I was very excited to be graced by a performance from someone who studied at Juilliard college.. the Juilliard college! And Gretchen Egolf who played Blanche DuBois the female lead, did not fail my expectations at all. The whole night was just amazing and made me appreciate what art can conjure up in people. I truly saw fantastic theatre.

I would love to experience the act of receiving a standing ovation by a thousand people, who are all paying $35 - $60 to see you perform.

"I don't want realism, I want magic." Blanche DuBois from A Streetcar Names Desire

And Off We Go!

I am departing for my only vacation of this summer in literally ten minutes. I will be gone for five days. I will def have some good stories, pictures and stuff to share when I get back. I hope you enjoy yoursleves while I am away!

Blogging.. Summer Edition

I cannot believe that tomorow is already going to be August twenty fifth! Where has the summer gone? This last weekend was already my fourth theatre performance in just one summer, and I performed in my citys local parade for marching band! Ufffta!

I have found time moves very, very quickly in my life and in anyone's life when you surround yourself with things that you love and enjoy. And yes, I already do a feel a little stressed and rushed into the fact that school is starting in three weeks. But looking back on my summer I now have three, almost four more theatre performances under my belt, I have grown one year older in the middle of July and have become so much more of an independent person. My life is chronicled by the memories of past shows, random times and nights with friends and other events that make my life what it is.

If nothing else, I am living.

"We learn by practice. Whether it means to learn to dance by practicing dancing or to learn to live by living, the principles are the same." - Martha Graham

Cinderella, HCO 2010

Cinderella

Page Theatre
June 2010

"As lovely as it looks"

Ave Maria

So hmmmmm... where did I leave off when recapping me life for the last few months? We are now in the middle of winter, in cold Minnesota and I have a boyfriend. Well as the cold weather comes to an end, so does my first relationship. I have never really ever liked winter, it’s not like I enjoy summer that much either… personally I enjoy a good day in spring or fall. Not too hot or cold, just right. With the prospect of a new season right around the corner the one act play officially comes to a close and our schools spring play “Radium Girls” and the musical “The Fantasticks” starts up. Radium Girls was a very challenging play, especially in regard to the style of the play and the bunch of kids we had to work with. It delved deep in to the moving case of Grace Fryer and friends all dial painters who suddenly fall ill and start dying due to radium in their dial paint. The play follows Grace fighting for her voice to be heard in court as a women in the 1920’s. The show was really intriguing and very much a growing experience for the whole cast as actors.

I very much enjoyed “The Fantasticks” in regard to the show and my part, but the rest of the whole situation did not go so well… haha. Not only did winterfest take place while I was gone but so did prom. So for my second year as just a sophomore I got to go to prom. Again like last year it was such a fun night filled with dancing, conversation and fun. I was very proud of my tux decision since only like one other guy that I saw while we were taking photos before had a grey suit on. Everyone looked so great and I made some great memories that night.

So pretty much that is my time away in a nutshell of the big events that have happened from now until then. My life really is not that eventful, I am sure that by me not blogging you missed out on some of my random happening that occur through my day but I will be trying to keep up with this blogging thing. Till the next post, here are some random photos I have taken:

Word of the day: Powerful

Exerting great force; having effectiveness and influence; strong

"To the world you might be one person, but one person you might be the world."

https://www.dramaticpublishing.com/radium-girls

To Poets and Freinds.

Ok, no joke! I am gonna start keeping up with this blog thing, I feel like it is very healthy or something for me to vent on a constant basis. Last time I blogged it was half through the year approaching my sophomore winterfest, well I now have less then twenty five days of school left and winterfest and prom are far, far behind me. Winterfest was like I predicted just okay.




I have had a very productive year when it comes to what I have really loved. In January I took place in my school One Act theatre competition. I first had to audition to get in the competing show, which thankfully I did. And then after weeks of practice of our thirty minute play titled “Hush Little Celia, Don’t Say A Word” we had two public performances accompanied by two other one act plays and improv. After we got good such a great reaction from the public we had two weeks to buckle down and get to business before we went to competition. We first competed at Sub-Sections where we placed first and then at Sections where we placed third and did not advance to State. Even though we did not advance to State, the show was a complete blast and what a great bonding experience with the ten other members in the cast! I had a pretty small part only getting to play a coffee house MC and a bitchy drama assistant, but the show made a big impact on my winter months.

Our Symphonic Band has been just busy throughout the whole year. In the first week of January we traveled from the lower bowels of Minnesota and went to the heart of our state and got to perform part of MN Music Educator Association’s Mid Winter Clinic. In the audience we had music educators from all around MN to come litsen to us perform and do what we pride ourselves in most. Our selection varied from a tone poem titled “Roma Sacra” by Luigi Zaninelli which took the listeners through the many pictures and scenes of ancient Rome to “Play!” by Carl Holmquist which basically rejoices in the performance of music. I have very much enjoyed every minute of being apart of such a great and well respected ensemble and have grown so much playing wise, through the expectations set for each member.


This is a recap only though mid January so I will be posting very soon the rest of what has happened. Here is some photography from while I was away and not blogging: