{"id":1085,"date":"2019-03-15T16:52:03","date_gmt":"2019-03-15T16:52:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.mun.ca\/studentblog\/?p=1085"},"modified":"2019-03-15T17:05:33","modified_gmt":"2019-03-15T17:05:33","slug":"last-semester","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.mun.ca\/studentblog\/last-semester\/","title":{"rendered":"The Last Semester"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hello everyone,<\/p>\n

My previous blog was about the Christmas and New Year\u2019s holidays. I\u2019m happy, and sad at the same time, knowing that this semester will be my very last semester in the music program. This time, back to business :).<\/p>\n

This semester has been treating me very well, by far. However, being back to \u201cuni\u201d doesn\u2019t mean only being back to routines (classes, hectic life, and boring schedules) and practicing for hours. \u00a0This semester has been an interesting one. The School of Music<\/a> offered students a workshop and concert with The Vancouver Chamber Choir. I took the opportunity, and it was nice to once again sing in the choir, which I had been doing since my childhood up until my secondary school. I don\u2019t have a golden voice, but I\u2019m not that bad at singing :). I had fun, and hoped that they enjoyed singing with me, too.<\/p>\n

The MUN Chamber Orchestra also played interesting new music with a MUN alumni violinist who\u2019s now living in Edmonton. We played a peculiar, uncommon, but somewhat memorable Violin Concerto by Schinttke. We performed it very well for the Newfound Music Festival XVI<\/em> at MUN back in January. For the remainder of the semester, MUN Chamber Orchestra has been working with many MUN vocal students for an opera project. It will be Alice\u2019s Adventures in Wonderland<\/em> by Will Todd. The rehearsals have been great so far, and I\u2019m looking forward to the successful performance at the end of this semester.<\/p>\n

I was also offered to start working with the local Calos Orchestra, under the direction of Grant Etchegary. I\u2019m so excited to work with a community orchestra in St. John\u2019s. I first joined a community orchestra in my home town unwillingly (not my intention to do so). We took a concert trip and listened to a magnificent orchestra in a well-designed acoustic concert hall. I then (accidentally) started to love orchestra, and I had been joining the community orchestra back home in Jakarta, Indonesia, for over 10 years now. I was enthusiastic about this community orchestra; I was active, went to rehearsals, concerts, and even was appointed to be the concert master, the soloist, and once substituted for the conductor during a concert. It is great that I can continue to be involved with an orchestra here in St. John\u2019s.<\/p>\n

Speaking of orchestras, the Newfoundland Symphony Orchestra (NSO) also had a really memorable concert with Artistic Fraud of Newfoundland. We performed music about Dr. Jon Lien\u2019s life and his pioneering works on whale rescuing. Dressed in all white, the orchestral musicians shared the stage with a theater performer, with visual and audio projections playing in the background. The concert was beautiful!<\/p>\n

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Photo courtesy of Artistic Fraud of Newfoundland<\/p><\/div>\n

Outside of the School of Music, I also have more students to teach \u2013 Yay, more time playing with kids! To get more students means that I will commute even more frequently in the upcoming months. To help me commute more often and more efficiently, driving a car was the only thing that came up in my mind. I used to commute to teach violin for 1 hour on the bus (with 1 transfer), and now, it\u2019s only a 10-minute drive from my house; I call it \u201cThe magic of a car!\u201d. Back in January, I checked out five other cars, and turned out there were quite a few issues with each, especially rust. By the end of January, I\u2019ve got this clean and smooth-running car, and I\u2019m so happy with it. This car paid off all of the time I had on hunting cars for a month; it\u2019s a reliable and decent used-car. However, there\u2019s one thing I\u2019ll keep complaining about owning a car: everyone knows that it\u2019s unfortunate but we must pay a really high insurance fee in NL. I hope that the premium will get lower for me later on.<\/p>\n

Although this is my last semester at MUN, I\u2019m going to stay for another year, or two (or three), in St. John\u2019s after my graduation which will be happening soon in May \u2013 and I\u2019m excited about it! But before graduation, my last project at the School of Music is to perform in a graduate violin recital. I have been preparing for this repertoire for a year, and the recital will be on April 13th<\/sup> at 5 p.m. in Suncor Hall (at MUN Music Building). I cordially invite all of you, especially those of you who have followed my blog from the beginning, to come to my recital and celebrate the completion of my interesting 2-year M.Mus. degree<\/a> at MUN.<\/p>\n

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That said, this will be my very last post for the graduate student blog, unfortunately. However, I enjoyed very much writing these blog posts. It\u2019s been a pleasant time sharing my thoughts as well as reading others\u2019 posts. I thank the School of Graduate Studies as well as my Dean, Dr. Ian Sutherland, who recommended me as a contributor to the School of Graduate Studies blog. I\u2019m so grateful of a heaps of great time I\u2019ve had at MUN and in St. John\u2019s.<\/p>\n

Keep in touch, and… Cheers!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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