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Dalton Day, from Flood-Letting

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A daily dose of Bach 

Concerto for 2 Keyboards in C minor, BWV 1062 - 1. Vivace  

Vesko Stambolov & Emili Brugalla, pianos Orquestra de Cambra Illa de Menorca, Farran Sylvan James - concertmaster and conductor

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If something makes you go "!!!!!!!!!" inside, it is completely valid and worth keeping around!

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*likes mutual's personal post to let them know that i'm here for you bro*

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beef teriyaki bowl/chicken teriyaki bowl/grilled shrimps bowl/grilled salmon bowl

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For everyone with social anxiety, this is a reminder that you don't have to be perfect in your interactions with others; you just have to be kind and that's literally it. That's all that's necessary of you. You don't need to say the perfect thing or anticipate what they would want you to say or even exude confidence if you can't.

Social anxiety tells us that we have to be perfect in in our social interactions, but no one is. Social anxiety sets us up for a level of expectation in our social interactions that we have no choice but to fail at, and then fall into a cycle of self-hate for failing and striving even harder for perfection.

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happy solstice everyone, hope you find a little bit of peace today! 🌑🌘🌗🌖🌕🌔🌓🌒🌑

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ACCEPT ACCEPT ACCEPT

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I have a university audition early next year. How can I be fully prepared for my audition? What should I be doing now to make sure I can get in?

Obviously, choose your repertoire sooner rather than later! Every university has their own requirements, so follow those. If the requirements are vague, here are some good rules of thumb:

Classical singers: include an English song, a foreign language song (Italian is a good choice, don't be afraid of the 24 Italian Songs and Arias!), and potentially a musical theater piece. If you need more songs, branch out into extra languages!

Musical theater singers: Choose songs from multiple eras. Also, as much as you love Wicked or Into the Woods or The Last Five Years or Next to Normal or Cats or Phantom of the Opera, those shows are heavily done. It's worth looking for less well-known shows.

Instrumentalists: You probably have to choose from a list of excerpts. It's not cheating to play excerpts you've already learned if the chance comes up! It's always better to play a simpler excerpt that you can absolutely nail than to choose the hardest one and maybe fumble it.

EVERYONE: Memorize your music holy shit please. Even if it's not required. Just do it. You have so much time right now! Memorize and everything will be so much easier!!

EVERYONE AGAIN: Choose pieces in contrasting styles. Happy/sad, upbeat/slow, funny/romantic/angry, etc. Show off your musicality and range!

Start practicing your rep carefully now and you're going to be so incredibly set.

Next, practice your sightreading. Lots of auditions include a short sightreading portion. It won't make or break your audition, but it will make your life easier in ensembles if you can sightread well. There are sightreading example books you can get to practice! (Instrumentalists, this isn't an audition tip, but a life tip: start learning how to sightsing simple melodies. Otherwise aural skills will be a bitch.)

Oh, also practice repeating melodies. At least in vocalist auditions, they'll play you little atonal ditties and you need to repeat them back as well as possible.

Instrumentalists, practice your long tones and scales. You should already be doing that, but it will come up in your auditions.

Finally, you can do your absolute best in an audition and still not get in. Even if you're an incredible prodigy, I still recommend auditioning for at least a few schools. There are basically infinite sopranos out there, ditto for violins and flutes and pianists. Oboes and bassoons and bass players, you're going to have less competition but schools also have fewer slots for you. Sometimes a school just won't have room and you won't get in. Auditioning multiple places gives you a better chance.

Space those audition out, too. I only applied to three grad schools, and I only got into one. Why? Because during the audition period for two of them, I had mono! And didn't realize it! (Before the plague, sometimes people shared drinks at parties and gave an entire dorm floor the same disease.) The one audition I did when healthy got me in no problem. Hedge your bets: apply to multiple schools.

You got this!

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家主…アタマいたい なおったです？

Hey landlady... Is your headache OK?

そう…ならオレのけがわ あげる…

Hm... So I'll give you my fur...

おまもり！もってけです！

Those are charms for happy! Take them!

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まあまあ じゃすとふぃっとなのよ

Her lap fit me quite perfectly

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Mulder shares a moment of prolonged eye contact with a wet cat named Reggie.

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February, 2021

Finally found again the inspiration to take a few photos, it had been some time. These pretty much sum up what my life has been for the past few weeks and what it will be for the next couple of months: studying chemistry; currently reading those two essays and also American Tabloid by James Ellroy on my ebook reader; playing the flute concerto by Reinecke among other beautiful music pieces. The rest of my time is spent doing a Gillian Anderson marathon, even though I’ve seen most of her works several times already, and I’m working my way through Ingmar Bergman’s filmography because they’re showing his films on Mubi.

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rb to give the person you reblogged from a really cool knife

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“Some haunt or another - nursing its black symphony, downward over my soul.”

— Helaena C Moon @ http://hapless-hollow.tumblr.com/  (via hapless-hollow)

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Vladimir Lebedev

Guitar with porcelain cat and Fruit Vase ,1930

#come join me at the cafe 1930 #ok i’ll leave

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soft morning

#those violin cases have their own aesthetic #but they’re not very practical 😔