Mondays....

Tomorrow is Monday, and I'm not ready for it to be. School during Easter week doesn't seem right in the first place. Really, it's the last week of the LORD's life on earth, and we don't even break the day to day routine for rememberance until Friday.

There's orchestra rehearsal tomorrow evening, and we have sectionals, where all the second violins get together to rehearse in a room separate from all the other strings. There are about six of us on a regular basis. It's fun, but sooo much hard work. The fact that I haven't had time to work on orch. music at home this week doesn't help at all. We're playing Mendelsson's Italian Symphony, a piece by Vaughn Williams and a Shostacovitch(sp?). The Mendelsson is fantastic, I haven't played the VW, and Shostacovitch is a little....unorthodox. What fun would music be though, if no one ever stepped outside the boundary lines of "orthodoxy"? We'd have nothing but baroque music because Handel never wouldv'e dared to begin the Classical movement. Beethoven wouldn't have dreamt of infusing his music with such vibrant emotion because under the confines of music up to that point, it "just wasn't done". Yes, Mozart was a genius, but he never wrote anything beyond the common style of his day. Creativity has originality near it's core, and without it, creativity quickly becomes cut and paste copying. The only "rules" an artist must abide by are a dedication to depicting truth, beauty, and intelligence through his/her creation.

Phillipians 4:8 - Whatever is true, whatever is honest, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be anything praiseworthy, think about these things.
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Tomorrow may be Monday, but it is the day that the LORD has made, and I will rejoice and be glad in it.

~Happy Monday~