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(8/8/01 6:32:16 pm)
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Are you
practicing more or less during the summer?
And why?
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Laura
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(8/8/01 7:07:22 pm)
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Re: Are you
practicing more or less during the summer?
More, because I don't have any of those silly classes getting in
the way.
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mswatson
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(8/8/01 7:14:33 pm)
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Haven't touched
it since our last concert in May (April?)
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zambocello
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(8/8/01 9:10:04 pm)
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Practicing???????
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samcn
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(8/8/01 10:01:18 pm)
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practice less ..
:-(
It has been very hot in New England - Boston that I sweat a lot and
my concentration decreased in these hot steamy summer..
Maybe I
will practice more when I hit lottery to put central air in my
house... Ha!
Sam
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Re: Are you
practicing more or less during the summer?
If yardwork and parenting can be considered practicing, then more.
If it involves the cello, then less, or none. The couple of weddings
I have every week don't do much to keep me in shape. I played a
debutante ball last weekend - only played 3 pieces, but all at pp,
and one was repeated some 20 times while all the girls were
introduced.
I'm going to get socked in September, so I need
to start my remedial practice, to get my muscles reconditioned.
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JacquiOfStars
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(8/8/01 11:50:22 pm)
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Re: Are you
practicing more or less during the summer?
i practice a lot more because i am a student and don't have classes
in the way. but what is it like for all you professionals out there?
in the summer do you still get lots of work to do or do you go on
vacations and kick back? little of both?
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DoDahlberg
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(8/9/01 5:32:25 am)
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Re: Are you
practicing more or less during the summer?
More and more efficiently. A local CBN put together a pretty good
summer orchestra made up of people from area community orchestras
who wanted to keep playing over the summer. We have Martin Sklar,
bassist from New Jersey Symphony, as conductor. We're doing
Sibelius, Beethoven, Berlioz. Our run-through concert is Sunday at a
nursing home. On the 19th we do our concert with another rehearsal
squeezed in next week.
I've been teaching summer school which
is 3.5 hours/day instead of the ususal school day. I had a chunck of
time toward the end of the morning without classes so I brought my
cello every day and practiced the tough spots. Because I was seen
carrying my cello to school every day, I played with the school band
on Tuesday. "We will, we will rock you." The band room is next to
the art room so there is a chance I will be hearing those 6 notes
for the rest of my life. (Not the Queen version either.)
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cellofreak1286
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(8/9/01 6:34:14 am)
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Re: Are you
practicing more or less during the summer?
More. I don't have to worry about homework, papers, tests, or
school stuff so it is so much easier to practice.
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Betsy
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Re: Are you
practicing more or less during the summer?
More (happily!), because I am unemployed; temporarily, I hope. It's
kind of nice. I've only been unemployed for a week and a half, but I
finally feel relaxed. My teacher and I usually take a sabbatical
from lessons during August each year. I am really enjoying these
practice sessions. I do miss the help and critique that I get from
my teacher, though.
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DWThomas
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(8/9/01 9:05:21 am)
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Re: Are you
practicing more or less during the summer?
Yes! 
Some
weeks more, some less...
I signed up for the six week "summer
session" at the school to keep my hand in -- having started at my
(ahem) "advanced" age, I can't afford to backslide 
Finally this year we have central air at
Pigpen-on-the-Perkiomen, so creature comfort is no longer an issue.
(The electric bill is not so comfortable, of course.)
My
teacher plays it pretty loose in the summer, and last night,
admitting it might be a stretch, talked her into going over the
Saraband from the 1st Bach Suite with me. It actually went better
than I might have expected.
I do find summer seems to carry
more distractions than other seasons though. (Like momentarily a
relative will appear, exact time of arrival, day of departure and
number of dependents therewith still not fully defined.) 
-Dave
Edited by: DWThomas
at: 8/9/01 9:08:43 am
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Paul
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(8/9/01 12:36:12 pm)
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Re: Are you
practicing more or less during the summer?
Thanks for all your responses. I am encouraged to see Full Time
Professional Musicians admitting that they are practicing less. Not
that I think it's good to not practice...
I often feel like
I'd practice a lot more if it weren't for my full-time Systems
Administrator Day job. As it were, I'm managing to squeeze in about
2 hours a day (maybe 4-5 days a week) before going to work. I refuse
to practice after work (unless I have a concert coming up) because
that is my family time.
I figure that the music world will do
just fine without me. However, I'm the only father and husband my
son and wife have. So after work, I'm theirs!
So far, on the
chopping block for me is:
Schubert Arpeggione
Saint Saens
Sonata #1
Strauss Sonata
and...
(A mystery concerto that my
manager doesn't want me to disclose until the project is set and
scheduled)
Still, on those two or three days each week I
don't practice, I feel guilty and worried. But I never regret
devoting those days to my family. I've been shown a lot of mercy and
grace in the cello department of my life because I still feel like I
can play. I just need to learn a few new pieces and that's the
tricky part...learning new pieces. Not easy unless I have a good
block or 3-4 hours everyday to practice. HA! Like that's ever going
to happen again! 
Paul Tseng
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bridge
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Re: Are you
practicing more or less during the summer?
As I plod along in my 9 to 5 life, I practice pretty much the same
year round. However, I find that teachers teach less because most of
their students are school kids on vacations.
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bridge
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Why do my
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DWThomas
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Re: Why do my
replies land in weird places?
Golly is this a weird place?
If I understand it (and there's doubt about that), clicking
the little tiny "reply" link under the author's name in an
individual post will place your reply indented and attached to that
post. (See if this one shows up attached to your question.) I think
the big REPLY button at the top right corner threads to the initial
post. The bottom right corner, I've never tried.
Speaking of
weird, isn't it weird that "weird" volates the old rule for English
about "I before E, except after C."
-Dave
about to go off line as a major T-storm rumbles in
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mcello
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This has been my
worst summer in years
I've been practicing less this summer, mainly because a 3 week
remodeling job on our house turned into the whole summer! I was very
glad that musical theatre and weddings at least have made me pick up
the cello, but there's something about dust flying, hammers banging,
etc. that detered me from getting my cello out, or even checking in
on cello chat on a regular basis...a stocker at our local
do-it-yourself store recognized me while I was looking at paint
brushes and asked me if I was going to paint my
cello.
Anyway, I now have wonderful wood floors in the
downstairs of our house that make my cello sound like a million
dollars! I have been working though this past week or 10 days,
because I don't think I can coast indefinately, maybe after I hit
the big time I can quit the daily grind 
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bridge
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Re: Why do my
replies land in weird places?
Yeah, I at least think, I understand how to place one's post in the
right place. Sometimes it just doesn't seem to work. It would be
easy to eat some humble pie and admit it was user error, however,
with this board, I wouldn't be so sure about it.
P.S. It must
be the four year old, because you're rather sprite lately. :-)
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CelloTron
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(8/12/01 10:33:44 pm)
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Re: Are you
practicing more or less during the summer?
More. Definitely.
Actually, I've quite recently (fewer than two
months ago) decided that computers are only a small part of what I
want to do with my life (they've been a /VERY/ large part since
about 1992, when we ditched our Commodore 64 for an IBM PC (but I
digress)), and I've of late been literally practicing the skin off
both hands in an effort to "catch up" to where I /think/ I ought to
be after having played for 15 years. Yes, I love my new
calluses.
So, more.
But, in past years, I've actually
gone several weeks (sometimes the entire summer, in fact) without
even so much as opening my case.
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zambocello
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(8/14/01 2:29:27 am)
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Re: Are you
practicing more or less during the summer?
Actually, practicing pretty concientiously, all summer. Besides the
schedule at the Bowl, I've had chamber music I had to take pretty
seriously, plus the third of three Different recital programs is
coming up this Sunday. OY!
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sarah
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Re: Are you
practicing more or less during the summer?
I've gotten to the part of the summer where I've run out of gigs
and inspiration for practising so I'm doing some work on chamber
music I'll be doing later in the season and reading duets with my
husband (violinist) and trios and quartets with friends to keep in
shape.
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