In pupil housing, Demiray was rapidly 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 gaggle to arrange one in all 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 fingers of others; it was the form of lesson that may’t actually be taught within the classroom. “It jogged my memory,” she mentioned, “that every thing we now have in music is a matter of perspective.”
FEW CURTIS STUDENTS really take time without work in the course of 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 venture at Dallas Opera. Cheung, at the very 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 mentioned, was like “a vacuum.” At first, he didn’t sleep nicely as a result of he felt as if he ought to be doing one thing. After a couple of days, he felt himself calm down 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 scorching, however she felt refreshed when she acquired again to high school for extra auditions and a starring function in Poulenc’s one-act opera “Les Mamelles de Tirésias.”
