Saturday

Today was the last day of rehearsal!  The concert's tomorrow.  Oh, man.  We had the master class this morning and it went really well.  We played the end of the first movement and the second, third, and fourth movements.  Since we're last on the program this week, we had a long time before we had to go out to the master class.  We used this time to practice these middle movements.  We probably ended up playing them a good 10 times (or I suppose in the case of the beginning of the second movement, 20 times).  It was a long wait, but worth it.  We went out after the Mendelssohn started performing and they sounded really, really good.  The good news is that I didn't get too nervous about that like I did before Borodin last week.  The weird thing about this performance is it was opposite of the way my performances usually are.  Usually, I get nervous in the beginning and then relax as I get into it.  This time, I wasn't nervous at all really until the third movement and then it really hit me.  I was super nervous during the third/fourth movements, which was less than ideal.  We did well, though.  We got some good comments from the coaches and Asya was really pleased.  After lunch, we went over the comments that the coaches had and took those into consideration.  We worked on the spots that they pointed out intonation problems and then some.  After that, Asya went to help the Dvorak American quartet and left us to fix the things we had just gone over and to practice the first and fifth movements.  A little after four, we got Asya and we went out and performed the first and fifth movements for her which also went pretty well.  I'm excited for the concert tomorrow; I think it's really going to go well