Violin competition...duhn duhn duhn

So, I decided to go through with my violin competition, and it didn't go as badly as I thought it would.  It was rather funny... the only other person in my class was my friend Jeremy, but we were cool with competing against each other, or rather, playing with each other, as he termed it. He's right.  I knew I wasn't ready, so I expected him to win, and he did.  Oh well :)  What really threw me off this year was the fact the the school play was way later in the year... last year it was March 1,2,3.  This year, two of the three weeks that I should have been practicing hardest were consumed by late night play practices and performances.

Another thing that was unfortunate was that I was fighting against my bow the whole time.  It's new, and much heavier at the tip than I'm used to.  It kept on sliding out of my grip and just being a pain.  Ah well.  Such is life!

Stress

And I thought violin was supposed to be fun.

I'm preparing for my violin competition on Tuesday, and I'm feeling rather discouraged. I'm in the highest grade of violin and I suppose I'm rather good. :) Most of the time anyway. I think the problem with preparing for this particular competition was the fact that I have so many other commitments.

I absolutely adore the piece I'm playing, Praeludium and Allegro by Kreisler, but I'm just not ready. My violin teacher wants me to play, but I have a problem with going to a competition and not playing my best. So, my options are to cop out of the competition, or go there and be disappointed with myself. Hm... Oh well. I'll try to be sickeningly cheerful about it. <:D

Radish :)