Karolyn Camille

Philippians 2:34

2009-04-13T03:21:51Z

Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead... I press on.

Grey's Anatomy

2008-11-30T03:48:43Z

The ties that binds us are sometimes impossible to explain.
They connect us even after it seems like the ties should be broken.
Some bonds defy distance and time and logic;
Because some ties are simply...meant to be.

sunswept_stars @ 2008-11-27T20:45:00

2008-11-28T01:50:00Z

Academically speaking, I am accepted into University of North Texas, University of Michigan, and Michigan State.

Musically speaking, I have only completed two auditons. I was offered a spot in the Oberlin Conservatory trombone studio!

I am going to Rochester NY in February and fortunately enough there is a Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra concert that evening with amazing Bernstein repertoire. Sweet :)

I need to practice for my theory skills exam now.

sunswept_stars @ 2008-08-22T23:45:00

2008-08-23T03:49:40Z

I'm starting the vigorous college application process.

Final Schools (in order of preference):
~~-Eastman School of Music~~
~~-Oberlin Conservatory~~
~~-University of North Texas~~
NA -California Institute of the Arts
~~-University of Michigan~~
NA-Grand Valley State University
~~-Michigan State University~~
~~SMU~~
~~UNT~~
College visits:
~~MSU - Ava Ordman [October 2007]~~
~~Eastman - John Marcellus [July 2008]~~
~~Grand Valley - Mark Williams [8-23-08]~~
~~U of M - Dave Jackson [8-27-08]~~
~~Oberlin - Jim DeSano [12-15-08]~~
Not visiting: UNT, SMU

sunswept_stars @ 2008-08-01T22:47:00

2008-08-02T02:54:42Z

My trombone instructor called me yesterday and asked if I could play euphonium for him at a camp at Interlochen next week. I gave away 27 hours of work at McDonalds in order to clear my schedule, and I'm not even sure I'm going. It will really suck if I'm home for a whole week with no hours.

Scheduled my indoor senior pictures. Wow. I'm a senior, when did that happen?

Oberlin visit in a few weeks, hopefully!

I hope I can work some decent hours before I go back to school.

College Visit - Eastman School of Music

2008-07-31T17:48:28Z

I just got back from Rochester, New York and I love Eastman. Small campus, 900 students - 500 undergrad, lots of practice rooms, amazing trombone instructor.

Shego! Have you forgotten the talk we had about hurting with our words?

2008-07-08T05:44:39Z

My favorite villains of all time are Dr. Drakken and Shego from Kim Possible.

I need opinions!

2008-04-20T16:58:29Z

I'm getting my hair done for prom next weekend, here are some pictures that I'm considering... please let me know which one you like best?

sunswept_stars @ 2008-04-16T16:39:00

2008-04-16T20:50:55Z

I know who I'm rooming with next fall! My friend Laura, who is a day student from Montana and rented a house near campus with her mom, is living on campus next year. Rumor has it, Interlochen is reopening McWhorter (one of the dorms that is currently not being used) so Laura and I are going to try to live there. I'm excited. I can't wait to (hopefully) leave Thor Johnson.

I'm so glad tomorrow is Thursday.

For the final band concert, we're recycling a couple pieces that the band voted for, as well as playing a few new ones.
Repertoire:

Ticheli: Vesuvius
Holst: The Planets - IV. Jupiter
Bernstein: Candide - Overture
Nelson: Passacalgia (Homage on B-A-C-H)
Maslanka: Give Us This Day
Orff: Carmina Burana - (13 movements from it, anyway)
Along with two other pieces that I don't remember because I don't like them, and my band music is in another dorm right now so I can't go look.

I'm going off campus this weekend... yay, go me =]

sunswept_stars @ 2008-04-12T22:34:00

2008-04-13T02:44:51Z

Wow. It's been awhile since an actual entry, but I felt like writing, so I'll probably come up with something to say.

Last night was the band concert. Personally, it was the worst concert I have ever played. I got lost in the Concerto for Two Clarinets, which was the second piece we played, so I sort of lost focus after that and had a rough time the rest of the performance. It's scary to think that the pros get fired for missing notes... I was lost for almost an entire page...

Today I took the ACT, which went pretty well. I had difficulty with the Math and Science portions especially, but I believe English and Reading went rather smoothly. I hope I do well.

List of schools I would like to audition for:
Oberlin
Cleveland Institute of Music
MSU
U of M (Ann Arbor)
California Institue of the Arts
Eastman

On a lighter notes, prom is coming up soon and I am very excited. The theme is Lights Out! which, in my opinion, is really lame and just an excuse for couples to make out in the dark. My idea of the Roaring 20s would have been SO much better. Even Old Hollywood would have been pretty cool. Lights out is just lame. Oh well. I'm over it.

The end.

sunswept_stars @ 2008-01-26T13:27:00

2008-01-26T18:27:58Z

The end of the first week of a new semester.

Tuesday was absolutely crazy, I only had one free hour, followed by tutorials all night =P

I dropped my second history class, here's what my schedule looks like:

1st: Band
2nd: Band
3rd: free
4th: Short Story
5th: Contemporary America
6th: free/lunch
7th: Algebra II
8th: Spanish
9th: free

It's really nice, I used to have my four academics right in a row, and now I have a free hour in between (except for on lesson days...eek)

And Mr. Wescott did not kill my GPA! Known grades so far (for first semester):
Spanish: A
Renaissance: B+
diplomacy: B

Band concert tonight! It should be great. Yay.

sunswept_stars @ 2007-12-30T22:27:00

2007-12-31T03:27:43Z

Top moments of 2007 (no particular order):

FYSO party at Lauren's.

Interlochen All-State band

FYSO 60th Anniversary concert

Halloween at Interlochen

Building a snowman with Zach and Peter

moving out/going to the academy.

college-visit to MSU

Girls nights!

Times by the lake when summer nights were coming to an end.

Driving Kristen's car!

¡Mac vs. PC southpark'd!

2007-12-21T03:11:19Z

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7hgUYt6v5o

sunswept_stars @ 2007-12-20T09:45:00

2007-12-20T14:45:43Z

Mark Hsieh is officially my hero. He can play Bolero up an octave.

Joseph Alessi is my hero or something. I mean...dannggg!

2007-12-12T23:00:56Z

I moved up a chair in band! I finally beat someone, yay! I've been working really hard.

I'm also sick, and I had juries today =P but I played the Morceau really well, so I was pleased. I think that's the last time I'm playing that piece for a very long time. Next up: first movement of Grondahl!

Mark Hsieh is coming up sometime this week!

Molly is moving in with me, I'm glad. We've been trying to get her to move in, but we've had a couple of rough patches in the process of doing so. But it's official, I have a roommate!

FYSO alumni night on Tuesday, yeahh!!! *snap snap* I'm excited. I ♥ you, Lauren!

Things are going really well. I just wish I felt a little better, just enough so that it's not uncomfortable to practice. Right now it's hard. Oh well. Yay nailing juries!

sunswept_stars @ 2007-12-05T22:40:00

2007-12-06T03:47:11Z

Reauditions are on Friday. The required excerpts for tenor trombone consist of:

Brahms 2, if auditioning for orchestra

Rossini La Gazza Ladra

Saint-Saëns Organ Symphony (#3)

I'm not auditioning for orchestra, so no Brahms 2 for me (thankfully, an excerpt in the first part has a run that starts on a high D, and that doesn't sound like too much fun) I think I stand a good chance of moving up though, my excerpts are sounding decent. I've been practicing a lot lately. Yay!

Time to sleep! Master class tomorrow with Kevin Sanders (Interlochen tuba alum, also attended IU!)

This is mainly just for my record. Colleges that I want to check out and that I'm thinking about.
~~MSU~~
U of M Ann Arbor
Oberlin
Eastman
Indiana University
Julliard

sunswept_stars @ 2007-12-02T11:09:00

2007-12-02T16:09:30Z

I practiced for five hours yesterday! Including 7 amazing high F's in the morning! When I say high F, I mean...

:)

I love molly!

2007-11-19T04:23:13Z

[speaking of the pure hatred of estrogen]
[23:19] treehuggertuba29: and i drink a lot of soymilk which raises your estrogen
[23:19] treehuggertuba29: ...which explains a lot about rick

sunswept_stars @ 2007-11-10T10:38:00

2007-11-10T15:46:45Z

Thanksgiving Break can't come soon enough =P
I am both excited and slightly disappointed to be leaving campus. It will be strange trying to get used to how everything used to be. On the contrary, yay hanging out with friends that I have not seen in all too long!

I have a huge film project on Edgar Allen Poe for my Renaissance class. We were given less than a week to accomplish this task. This includes:
-We have a composition major composing a piece for the film.
-We have four instrumentalists who have to learn their part/make a recording.
-We have several hours of filming to do (approximately the finished film will be about 10 minutes).

There are several rough patches... we're trying to make a film of The Fall of the House of Usher, which means we have to have a scene of a house collapsing. Of some sort. It's crazy. The final product should be interesting for only having a week's worth of time.

I don't like our band music very much. I don't care for Percy Grainger.

That's all.

sunswept_stars @ 2007-11-04T00:03:00

2007-11-04T04:04:17Z

"Never look at the trombones...it only encourages them."

sunswept_stars @ 2007-11-02T11:28:00

2007-11-02T15:33:30Z

9 days of classes left until Thanksgiving break! (that's not including Thursdays, obviously)
I'll be home from November 18-25, and attending FYSO on Tuesday, of course =]
Be sure to give me a call if you want to hang out...I should be around.

Things to accomplish during Thanksgiving break:
- Practicing at least 3 hours every day.
- Work on beginning piano/theory/ear training/solfege.
- Find a solo for juries, preferably something I have not played.
- Get a head start on homework teachers give out.
- Have fun!

That's really about all I can think of right now.

I never update, so I figured maybe I should try?

Band concert tonight! Repertoire includes:
Rienzi - Wagner
Enigma Variations - Elgar
Overture to Candide - Bernstein
and a piece by Tolk that I am tacet for, therefore, unfamiliar with.

Spellings may not be correct on some of those, but I'm running short on time to go look them up. Live with it for now.

Spanish party today, woo!

That's all.

sunswept_stars @ 2007-08-26T23:45:00

2007-08-27T03:46:23Z

I could seriously watch Degrassi all day.

So, I pretty much did.

I'm going to try to update more.

9 days until move-ins!
Call me if you want to hang out before then.

sunswept_stars @ 2007-08-25T22:37:00

2007-08-26T02:41:20Z

Spider-Pig, Spider-Pig. Does whatever a Spider-Pig does. Can he swing from a web? No he can't, 'cause he's a pig. Look out! He is the Spider-Pig!

there's no question, that's a lesson I learned from you.

2007-07-06T04:04:39Z

Gone from July 8 - 21st.
& no, I will not make plans with you for July 21st.
(I'll be too busy reading Harry Potter 7!) ♥ ♥

sunswept_stars @ 2007-06-19T21:53:00

2007-06-20T01:54:26Z

I got accepted into Interlochen Arts Academy. The admissions & financial aid office emailed my mom and stated they will make a decision about how much grant money I should recieve sometime soon. I guess practicing 3 hours a day really pays off.