Dust myself off

Sleep is always a good thing. The alarm woke me at 4:30 - forgot to change it - and I just turned it off. Oversleeping can also be a good thing.

After my disappointing playing last night, I'm ready to set my goals again for the day. Last night, they switched out the Mussorgsky and the Berlioz so I was sight reading these pieces in tenor clef. That I got any notes in was pleasing to me. So, all the work I put in on the Mussorgsky - well, it is not wasted especially because melodically it is the same, and practice time is practice time, building my ability - but, my time to devote to my practice is so precious that I wish I had known we'd be swapping that one out. Oh, well, at least I don't have to try to squeak out those high notes. The part that I now have doesn't have the notes that are on the edge of my range.

OK, I will practice at lunch. We have such a tiny part for the Mahler Symphonie No. 1 that I should be able to nail it every time. I'll work on it today, and to ease myself in after my disappointment last night, and because it is a short lunchtime practice, I'll work on the Hansel and Gretel.