Listening Log

Another year, another listening log.
Hi again! So, just like last year, I am typing this singlehandedly so please ecxuse any spelling mistakes I don't catch. This time, I was almost in a car accident about 4 hours ago and may have hyper-extended my shoulder once again plus I have a sprained wrist. Anyways, as always I am enjoying choir(s) and all my other music so once again, I will be writing listening logs for jazz choir.
Here is this year's form:
Name of Tune:
Date: (I guess when I wrote the report. That will probably be a different day than when I post it because I'm not usually at home and on my blog when I'm doing this.)
Artist/ Group:
1. Did the singer use much vibrato?
2. Describe the singer's vocal tone:
3. What was the overall modd/emotion/attitude of the performance?
4. Did the singer stylize much, and if so, in what ways?
5.What was the tempo and rhythmic groover of the song?
6. Did there seem to be much interaction between the singer and the players?
7. Did it seem that the singer had a creative interpretation of the melody of did they primarily sing it as written?
8. Explain what the text is about.
9. What was the instrumentation of the accompaniment?
10. Did you "believ" the singer? Did it sound honest?
11. Personal comment about the song/ performance. What did you think of it?

Sick.

Hi again everyone! How are you all doing?
I'll start. So, I love my classes and they seem like a lot of fun but I think I would enjoy them more if I could keep up. No, it's not that they're hard classes, for the most part it's concepts that I understand, pretty easy to grasp. The problem is; I can't see. You're probably wondering how I can finish writing this whole thing if I can't see but I just can't read very well up close. Everything goes blurry and just doesn't work. So yeah, to write this post, I have the font sent to largest. I'll set it back before I post it though. Anyways, I've got that issue plus I missed three days of school because I had choir camp which, by the way, was absolutely awesome! I always love choir camp but this really was the best year ever!
So yeah. School is great and I'm sure it will get even better once I go to the eye doctor's on Tuesday and hopefully end up getting glasses. Otherwise, I don't know what to do. Either way, it's going to mean a LOT of catching up.
Another small issue: It's allergy season. I have a lot of allergies and right now, I also have a really bad cold because some people came to choir camp with colds and it spread. There is actually a fair group of us who are sneezing now. So, not the greatest September in history but, I'll live.
Either way, I'm still managing to have some fun in my very tight schedule of doing what I love.
I hope you're all having a great school year!

School

Hi again everyone!
So, school starts for me tomorrow. I'm actually pretty excited and everyone else I've been talking to is too! After an entire summer with my friends, at camps and on and off crutches, I'm still on crutches and I can't wait to go back to school. I've got friends, great teachers, fun classes and great choirs. I wish everyone could be this happy with their life. I may still be on crutches and wearing a wrist brace but this is going to be a great year either way.
Have a great September everyone!

Thanks

I just felt that I had to say thanks to everyone. I know that not a lot of people read my blog, pay attention to my google feed or actually bother to see my figment profile and group. When people do though, they're very nice people and sometimes I take that for granted. Not today. I recently looked at the group I created for my book Music or Words on figment.com and found that one of the poets had started a new conversation. This is what it said:

Just wanted to say thanks for creating this idea and the haiku book for us, Coral. 

I don't know you personally but you seem like a lovely individual and quite productive. 

Well, I really appreciated reading that. I wouldn't have even thought of doing this if it hadn't been for all the great poetry I was reading for a contest about loneliness. Almost none of the people working on this project have actually met me but most of them have said that they are proud to be working with me and they're happy we're all getting this chance to be published together. When people join us on this project, I do ask that when we go to publish it, they try and give 5$. If everyone involved put in 5$, we could be published for very little cost to each person. 

I wouldn't usually mention something like this but I looked at the discussion prepared to just say thanks and move on but I realized that the reason this project instead of my other so-called outrageous projects is going to happen is because people believe. It sounds cheesy but it's the truth. I always try to do somewhat strange projects just to prove that I can but I can't. The reason I can't is that someone will lose hope and I won't have the help I so greatly need. Or everyone will say "you'll never be able to do that." and they end up being right.

Not this time. This time, anyone who says we can't do this because the project is led by a teenager or because it's too far-fetched or any other reason, I can say that it will happen. I can say this with such certainty because for once, a lot of people really believe in me. The musicians and the editors and my friends and the poets and the writers. They all think it's a great idea and they're almost as excited as I am. This will happen because we believe.

It's almost school

So jazz camp was absolutely amazing and I had so much fun! It was just great. With theory classes and solo recitals and all the great music and fun people, I can't imagine a better way to have spent my week! Then of course, last week I had some time to relax and I took a class at the library and we made purses out of old books! They're actually really cute and i had a lot of fun.

On another note, It's almost time for school and I've been listening to the soundtrack from Shrek: The Musical a lot. I'm noticing just how many references there are. There are a lot! I'm not even going to name them all because there are just to many. I can tell you though, we've got a Narnia reference that I just noticed a few minutes ago and so many more! It's pretty funny. Listen to the soundtrack and see if you can find them yourself.

Oops

So, some people may have already heard but since my last post I've managed to sprain my ankle and wrist. I now have two braces and a hard time typing but i'm making do. can't really get this book done if I don't. So even with all my clumsiness I had a great weekend and I hope you did too. Now, since it's Monday I can't wait to start jazz camp tonight! I love the music and it's going to be so much fun. I'll see if I can remember to post when it's over!
Bye!

Music or Words

So I think I've already said that I'm writing a book but now I've actually started to put something together. It's not based on earthlings this time but it's a collection of short stories and poems by a bunch of different teen authors. I'm also working with some artists to make a cool cover and some drawings of a couple of the characters from a few of the stories. It's going to be a great collaboration and I can't wait to get everyone working! Once everything's done, we're even going to publish the book. It's going to take a lot of hard work and a fair bit of money (about 300$ right now) but it's going to be worth it.
Here's the website for the book: http://mitska32.wix.com/music-or-words