Class-less girl

Wooohooo!!!! I just finished my last class for my doctorate! I can't believe it. I can't quite accept it and have a weird feeling that I will suddenly remember a class I forgot to take and will have to start all over in the fall. Haha. 

Just because classes are finished doesn't mean I am out of the woods yet. I still have to do a few things next week and play a final jury and hopefully my lecture recital the week after. But it's super exciting to have finished my classes! So excited for summer break!!!

It's a rainy day. I'm on the railroad going out to school for a lesson and to hear a recital. My recital is coming up. Lots of practicing to do before then. Next week is spring break so I should have more time to work. Spring break isn't supposed to be for more work, is it? Oh well. Take what you can get!

Coming soon!

Time in Port Jeff

I had a concert at Stony Brook with the orchestra on Saturday.  I had some free time between the afternoon rehearsal and the evening concert and a friend went out to Long Island with me, so we went into the neighboring town for dinner.  Port Jefferson is a small port village.  There is a little lighthouse and a ferry to Connecticut and lots of sailboats, since it is on the north shore of Long Island.  All the houses and shops are cute and look historic.  Very cute.  It's also the last stop on the Long Island Railroad line that I ride.  So if I ever fall asleep on the train and miss my stop, that is where I will end up. I liked the old clock in the town square.  It seems like it would fit in a movie. Here it is:

Coming Soon:

Megan Shumate

DMA Clarinet Recital

With:

Jose Menor - piano

Ismar Gomes - cello

Works by:

Brahms

Muczynski

Horovitz

Kovács  

Guastavino

  Stony Brook University

Staller Recital Hall  February 15, 2012 

8pm

One step closer

Last night, I finished my first semester back in school!  I spent the weekend finishing up a big analysis paper and had my last lesson of the semester yesterday.  Ahhh.... I can't believe it!  It hasn't really settled in yet that I can finally relax, but I'm sure it will later today when I get on a WV-bound flight.  Looking forward to seeing family and relaxing!

Back to School

Hello blog readers!  I am still here!  Don't worry!
I have made some big changes lately - mainly going back to school to start my doctorate!!!  A doctor of clarinet! Whoa! Crazy!
It's been quite an adjustment and although I'm not fully settled yet, I am very excited about the changes and the possibilities it can create for the future.  I am still working part-time at the opera, so I am staying busy busy busy.  I should be asleep right now, but I was up finishing my homework and thought I would say hello to the blog world.  Homework....there is a concept I had easily let go of over the past few years.  Hahaha.  It is interesting to go back to school after being out for a while.  Some things I slipped right back into as if I never left...other things I totally forgot.  Well, blowing off those cobwebs and diving in...that's what I'm doing.