I didn't go out much today, but nevertheless it was quite an awesome day.
The weather was completely amazing, mid seventies, lowish humidity, so all the doors and windows were open again.
I've been really pulled into practicing more and more these days, and have also been getting urges to practice at really odd hours (like 2 to 4:30 in the morning, as it was today). Maybe it has to do with having such easy access to really good pianos, which sit in a room with really nice acoustics, which is also pretty sound proof (i.e. late night practicing is no bother for the neighbors). Music-wise I'm learning a couple of newish things right now. The newest piece is the Rondo Capriccioso by Mendelssohn (fyi the intro is nice and all, but the fun part starts at 2 mins 24 secs in the recording). I have it memorized, I just need to clean it up a bit. I'm also working on (re)learning the op 10 no 4 Etude by Chopin. I started this piece during the school year, but with my schedule being as hectic as it was, I couldn't even finish learning all the notes (especially the parts from 42 secs to 1 min 1 sec (believe it or not that's an entire page!)...there are so many accidentals in this section it's insane!). So I'm learning them now, and hopefully will have it up to tempo by the end of the summer. On top of that I'm trying to finish learning/memorizing the op 119 Rhapsodie in Eb major by Brahms. This piece isn't so difficult per se, it's just a lot of notes to learn (started this one as well during the semester, but couldn't finish it due to time constraints).
So I practiced piano/clarinet most of the afternoon, went for a run, came back and had dinner.
