Friday

This Friday, anyone anywhere near Richmond, VA needs to make their way to Turnstyle at 102 W. Broad Street for their 3rd Anniversary Celebration! It's going to be an awesome night of music, fun, and art and it's completely free to come out and enjoy! There will be DJs and bands as well as street performers and art exhibits all up and down Broad Street. And somehow (because my brother can do anything), he has gotten both sides of Broad Street closed off from 7-10pm on Friday to help with the partying. It's going to be a lot of fun and so go if you can! There is also an after party at Hyperlink on Grace Street afterwards.

Check out this article in Style Weekly about my brother and the photographer showing his work that night. This is NOT to be missed! If you have any questions, just ask!


XO,
DJ SVR (hahhaa yeah right, I've tried to spin records and it's pretty embarassing.)

Shake It Off

I do not get nervous about playing the clarinet. I may worry about my reed effing up or tripping while walking onto stage, but I do not get nervous about playing the clarinet. I wasn't nervous for my senior recital or to play at Carnegie Hall (ok ok, I was a little nervous there but come ON, it's to be expected there) and I've played in a million concerts where I was fine. So imagine my surprise when my hands started SHAKING while playing my impossible solo tonight in rehearsal. Well, actually my hands started to shake right after I got through the impossible part and proved my worthiness by not screwing the part up like I did last week when I forgot how to play. I just really wanted my part to sound okay so noone would be thinking the dreaded, "Hope she doesn't blow it" because that sentence and Scarlet do not go together. That sentence would go with the violas. Or the second violins. But not me!

Anyway, nothing else too exciting tonight, just an extra long, rough rehearsal since it is our last one before the weekend of concerts. My favorite part of the night was when the two opera singers came up on stage to sing one of their duets. They shared a water bottle and Clarinet Dude and I immediately looked at each other in that knowing, "they're sleeping together" way. I mean, what? No no, we did not look at each other like because that would be weird. He did joke about them sharing bodily fluids. Saliva, people. Saliva!

So I'm glad I played my solo well. I need to play it louder but that will be a piece of cake.