Down and down

I think I just realized that Andante Religioso is a hard piece. Its technical difficulty is average to above average, but the level needed for interpretation... it just struck me how much I need to work on. The melody keeps shifting from left to right, and most of the time it's tucked away somewhere, requiring extra special finger control to lift it out of obscurity.

To breathe life into a piece of music can't be done in a cinch. It has to resonate somewhere. Unfortunately, most of the time I'm not even sure of what I'm doing. How discouraging. Half-pedal here, accents there, modification of speed, tempo, mood, LEGATO, ritardando-- garh, it's easier to simply bang away on the keys.

Or maybe I'm a dog confronted by a rainbow?
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I think Ms Manahan is simply the most wonderful English teacher in third year. Of course, siya lang naman yung ok e. I'm glad our class isn't being taught by that painfully anal teacher who made the test (somebody shoot her for that).

We played "The Boat is Sinking" (which is pretty violent, you know, and as tense as Simon Says) during English, then found out that the people we were clinging to would be our new groupmates for the 3rd Quarter. Huzzah! Who else does that as a method of grouping people? Wahaha. I'm glad I was sucked into a group of people I get along well with. Hehe, medyo stunned nga lang yug mga taong bigla na lang humagilap ng random people. Just so the boat wouldn't sink.

It's cute. It's a good thing our imaginations still work.