Desireé González: I LOVE being a Piano Performance Major!!

Hi everyone!! I've been so bad about blogging, I think I haven't written anything since last semester! I guess I've been busy, but since tomorrow is a holiday, I have some extra time :)

Life's so so so SOO amazingly good right now!!! I just love it!!! I love being a piano performance at BYU!! The faculty is awesome, and let me think what can I say about piano peers.. they're the BEST!!!

Last week was really cool. Before the week started, I had Music Literature (306) listening test, and let me tell you.. they're really tough, and guess what!! I got a 97%!! The Testing center screen said "Congratulations" I think that's the highest score I've gotten on a test at BYU. So, I felt really cool about that!! But it didn't finish there, I had to take the written exam (for the same class) and those are way WAY harder. They have 3 mortal essays. I got a 90% on that one!! The essays took me FOR.E.VER... but I feel good about them :) So that's the prelude for the awesome week I had.

On monday, we had the opportunity to have Nelita True, from Eastman School of Music, as a guest artist. The master class was awesome, and we gave her a present, a flower and a card, and she was so happy about it!! She said that in over 40 years that she's been traveling around the world, it was the first time that students did that for her.

Then on tuesday, I got to go to a VIP lunch with her and MTNA Officers!!! Isn't that cool!?? That was freaking awesome!!! We went to the Skyroom, and omg.. I really enjoyed chatting with her!! She's sooo down to earth! She gave pretty cool insights.
Later on, I had the opportunity to have a lesson with her! I was nervous, because she's such a big deal, and she gets to hang out with the best pianists in the world. So anyway, I played Rachmaninov Etude Tableaux Op.39 No.5 for her, and she told me that the opening was absolutely perfect!! Then she told me a bunch of stuff about the rest of it. Oh my, I really enjoyed working with her.

I went to practice that night and I had to memorize my hungarian rhapsody because we're having a recital very soon..

On thursday, we had a lecture with Dr. Paul Pollei, the Founder and Artistic Director of the Gina Bachauer International Piano Competition. It was really insightful!! He's so amazing!! I like his ideas on how to teach. He is so generous too. I gave him a copy of the UMTA newsletter I wrote, because I knew that he was gonna like it because Lukas Geniusas was on it, and he won the Gina Bachauer last year.. AND he liked it a lot!!!

Then Dr. Holden sent an e-mail to Christie, and said that the newsletter was fantastic!!! yayy!!! I'm glad people like what I do :)(pa-pum.... hum.. inside joke)

And last night, I got to hang out with piano majors!! They're so cool!! We went ice skating, and I'm soooo bad at it. I feel so sore!! then we went to Halie's apt. and watched a random movie. It was a lot of fun!!

mm what else??

Ohh yess. I got a website!! and I think it's soo cool!! I'm excited about that too :)

Life's good my friends.

I have a LOONG list of stuff I want to do, they're very cool projects.. we'll see what happens!!

Did you know I love taking pictures?? well.. here are some of them :)

Nelita True and me :)