In pupil housing, Demiray was shortly making new buddies. 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.
Through 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 fingers of others; it was the type of lesson that may’t actually be taught within the classroom. “It jogged my memory,” she stated, “that all the pieces we have now in music is a matter of perspective.”
FEW CURTIS STUDENTS really take day off 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 undertaking at Dallas Opera. Cheung, at the least, made room for catching up with family and friends in Seattle, and snowboarding.
Scott had a troublesome time winding down from the autumn semester, which he discovered excitingly intense; life at dwelling, he stated, was like “a vacuum.” At first, he didn’t sleep effectively as a result of he felt as if he ought to be doing one thing. After just a few days, he felt himself loosen up as he took his canine, a Rhodesian Ridgeback referred to as Nandi, for lengthy walks.
Tacchino went dwelling to France, however as a resident coordinator, needed to return early to arrange 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 preferred, and it was unpleasantly sizzling, 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.”
