Spasmatic Performances

David loves that word. I finished the music festival today. There was 8 ppl in my romantic Grade X category, then Rahim randomly dropped out. I played first and was incredibly happy with my performance of Chopin's Nocturne in E Minor, Op. 72 No. 1 (published post-humously). It was the best I ever performed. Then Akari comes right after me and busts out a Chopin Scherzo; for some of you, that ruined the punch line, but for others, it is still coming. Ayaka played a crazy song and so did Kumi. The other kids in my category played pretty well too. Then Mr. Dupuis, the most random adjudicator ever (quite cool though) comes up and says, "well this was a really interesting catergory. 3 people played ARCT songs."

I laughed silently to myself, but my mom was pissed. She ranted on and on after about how they were cheating. It turns out Akari is studying piano at the college and she is CLEARLY in ARCT though she is winning all of the grade 10 categories. Anyways, they got disqualified and didn't get a mark. I won that category, but it wasn't as satisfying a win as it would have been to fair and square own the random cheating kids. The moral of the story, is to be one with the piano when playing your song and play what you feel inside of you.

I got my provincial marks and was mildly surprised. very mildly. like the mild acidity of tap water. My average is nothing altogether impressive, but sufficient for what I need to do: 96. Laura Buzzard and Laura Rodgers both got the same mark on the English provincial and pwned me. I mean, I knew LB would, but LR? ack.

The stress of piano is off and I've never had much trouble with high school so I'm free. I got a Brahms book today with many pieces including a Scherzo by him and numerous intermezzos. Now I can just bust out tons of fun romantic songs as opposed to messing around with 20th century. bartok. psht.

Time for chilling.