A Day in the Life: Stuff I'm Working on in Flute

So more stuff has been thrown into my face by the world of music majoring.
Turns out, most of the schools I've been looking at require this sonata for flute and piano by this Monsieur Poulenc fellow, and it's a nice piece, I like it, but what madman makes you slur rapidly to and fro on E and C in the third octave? WHO?!??!?!
So I've got that to work on, though I'm not seriously grinding on it until I meet with my teacher and again and get an opinion from her.

Next up is something my teacher asked me to start in January, and since it's January I just printed out the first movement of... the Jaques Ibert flute concerto. Because nothing says ENTERING conservatory like playing a piece that you need to have GRADUATED to have the skills to even attempt! Ahem.

I think that I'm actually a little worn out, because I just busted my wrists fine-tuning on the Chaminade Concertino. I'm really far along on that piece, been seeing some real improvement and all that, but um... fine tuning is one of the hardest parts of learning a piece. I'm trying to get these bumps and missed notes and weird fingerings all sorted out and it's just very hard. I'm going to whine in my emo corner now.

[whines in emo corner]

Okay, I'm back. So what's on the menu for my fluting life this semester? Because, yikes the semester starts in eleven days. So what am I doing this semester?

1. Scheherazade (Playin' the piccolo part! It's so fun!)
2. Chaminade Concertino (Why are these fingerings like this?)
3. Prokofiev Sonata, Mvt. 1 (This one is kicking my butt, I am very sad)
4. Ibert Concerto (Are that many flats even ethical??)
5. Poulenc Sonata (Who slurs like that?)
6. Trying not to suffocate and die while playing the Midsummer Night's Dream excerpt

On the bright side, I can definitely see myself playing the Chaminade very soon in the future. I think I'll have it down soon enough. I also am very excited because in college we're going to play the ENTIRE 8th Symphony by Dvorak. I just hope I still get to be 1st chair! I've been spoiled this semester, haha. I'm also kind of excited because I was asked to play along with a choir in a performance of John Rutter's Requiem! I hope that works out! My schedule is crazy this semester, but I really want to have time for the things that music is really all about- namely, performing.

Hope you are all doing well! Enjoy this recording of the Requiem I hopefully get to play with the choir, haha!