Masterclass / Easier Day

Today was a little less intense than usual. This morning I practiced for an hour and then we had a masterclass with Mark. A masterclass is like a lesson but everyone else form the studio watches. On this class Jared played the Bourees from Bach's third cello suite, Kate played excerpts from Don Juan and Brahms' 2nd Symphony, and I played the recitative from Beethoven's 9th and the first page of Mozart's 39th. I thought I played pretty well and got some great feedback from Mark.

I'm starting to really despise the stool that I'm sitting on - there is no padding at all and spending so many hours on it a day is really starting to hurt. I've been stretching during breaks, so my back and shoulders feel better than they have been. At the end of rehearsal today a photographer from the local paper took a picture of me and Kate playing bass - it should be in the arts section of the paper on Wednesday?

After dinner was the first faculty concert. It was really good! Mark played on a piece composed by the trumpet teacher and a Nonet by Spohr.