In scholar housing, Demiray was shortly making new mates. She was closest together with her roommate, a horn participant. They’d collect on staircases at Lenfest with different college students to sing choral music for enjoyable. After attending a celebration throughout her first week, she joined a bunch to arrange certainly one of her personal, a masquerade for the vacations.
Throughout the semester, she additionally completed a string quartet that she had began on the flight from Turkey. As she rehearsed it, she realized how open she was to her music altering within the palms of others; it was the sort of lesson that may’t actually be taught within the classroom. “It jogged my memory,” she mentioned, “that all the things we’ve in music is a matter of perspective.”
FEW CURTIS STUDENTS actually take break day through the month between semesters. Demiray, again in Ankara, learn Kant and watched films, but additionally continued to compose. Gleason, getting an early begin on spring work, took on a conducting challenge at Dallas Opera. Cheung, not less than, made room for catching up with family and friends in Seattle, and snowboarding.
Scott had a tough time winding down from the autumn semester, which he discovered excitingly intense; life at residence, he mentioned, was like “a vacuum.” At first, he didn’t sleep properly as a result of he felt as if he ought to be doing one thing. After a number of days, he felt himself chill out as he took his canine, a Rhodesian Ridgeback known as Nandi, for lengthy walks.
Tacchino went residence to France, however as a resident coordinator, needed to return early to organize Lenfest for the spring semester. She had additionally picked up a tour in Florida, the place she had by no means been. She noticed extra alligators than she would have favored, and it was unpleasantly scorching, however she felt refreshed when she obtained again to high school for extra auditions and a starring function in Poulenc’s one-act opera “Les Mamelles de Tirésias.”
