So anyone who reads this will likely wonder...

where I'm applying to grad school. Of course, I'm going for clarinet performance. The schools at which I have already auditioned are the following:

Florida State University
University of Oklahoma
Boston University
Ohio University

The following auditions have yet to take place:

Duquesne University (Sat, 3/15)
University of Georgia (Wed, 3/19)

I am sending a CD to these schools, as I have been in contact with their clarinet professors, but I haven't actually applied to either:

Arizona State University
Baylor University

I haven't gotten any mail from any of these grad schools yet, so I will hopefully update as those come in. However, I received a promising email from the clarinet professor at Ohio University the day after my audition. This is nice because I particularly enjoyed my visit there. In this particular instance, I accidentally applied for the Performance/Pedagogy program instead of the Performance program, as I thought the Pedagogy would be on just the primary instrument, not all of the woodwinds. I had to call the School of Music's secretary handling the graduate applications to adjust that. So, if anyone is looking for a good woodwind ped master's program, check it out! I think they also have a ped program for voice, strings, and keyboard. Sorry, brass players!

The end of an era and the start of a new one

So one of my friends is admonishing anyone who reads her Xanga to switch to blogspot, as she did. I am heeding her advice. I became acquainted with blogspot last semester due to a blog that we had for my senior-seminar-ish music class. Our professor, Dr. Monroe, is one of those teachers who loves to use technology in his classes, and I think we all had fun with that class blog. And aye, indeed, Kandyce, blogspot is a better format than Xanga.

We'll see if I have any luck posting to this one more frequently than I did my Xanga.

For those unacquainted with me, I am about to graduate from Gordon College with a Bachelor of Arts in music, with a minor in French. I am a clarinet player, and I am currently waiting to hear back from the graduate schools to which I have already applied to and auditioned at, and I have yet to audition at two more.

I most recently lost my clarinets (well one that was mine, and one that is the college's), and on Saturday I am going to replace my Bb clarinet. We'll see how that goes. It is quite unfortunate when you have to take out a loan equal to half the cost of the loans of your entire undergraduate education just to replace your instruments. But no dwelling on this... life goes on.