Archive for April, 2005

American Idol

Wednesday, April 27th, 2005

How is it that people keep voting to keep Scott on the show as better people get voted off? He has a nasal voice, his intonation is shaky, and he has no charisma. I don’t get it.

On another note, isn’t it interesting how they always refer to bad intonation as being “pitchy”. […]

Post-concert photo

Tuesday, April 19th, 2005

Here we are, after our concert last night. I think the concert went relatively well, and we ended with a really fast and exciting Presto in the Brahms piano quartet. We’ll see how the recording sounds.

Shopping

Monday, April 18th, 2005

It was sooo nice going shopping this weekend. I didn’t do anything too long or intensive. I just went to the Arsenal Mall (about five minutes drive from my house). Bought two pairs of shoes (surprisingly I was able to find size 11’s in several pairs of shoes at Famous Footwear) and […]

Concert announcement: Monday April 18th

Monday, April 11th, 2005

Monday, April 18th at 8pm
Killian Hall, MIT
Free admission

Beethoven String Trio in C minor, Op. 9 No. 3
Brahms Piano Quartet in G minor, Op. 25

Amanda Wang, violin
Jennifer Grucza, viola
Angus Davol, cello
Yu Yasufuku, piano

If you’re in the area, please come, and bring all your friends!

Bad timing

Sunday, April 10th, 2005

This weekend the weather has been gorgeous, but I have a cold so I can’t even enjoy it!

Sheet music online

Wednesday, April 6th, 2005

My friend Arny sent me a link to EveryNote today. Apparently their aim is to provide sheet music of every note ever composed. For now, though, they mostly have piano, violin, and guitar music, though they’ve started adding chamber music, which is much more interesting to me personally. The repertoire is still […]