Reflections about the semester

This semester have been very agitated. I needed so much time for do the homeworks and study all that i have to play in the clarinet, because of this i left a band where i was playing. But i think it was good because i improved very much in the clarinet, specially in the repertoire that i have to play for my end of year exam. Another good thing that happened on this semester is that i started to work in clarinet classes and in a band (it's a bad band, but i receive a payment for play) and the best thing is that i have had time to take a walk with my dog.

 Bad things happened at the end of the semester and in this moment exactly, because i have so many works, expositions, tests and live performances, so i need another Pablo to do all the things without getting stressed, but i hope i will survive as Gloria Gaynor says. Anyway, i think i have reached my achievements, i have almost complete the Brahms sonata number two and i have to play it in september, now my clarinet teacher asked me to study the first sonata and if all goes good the two sonatas will be my exam. Other great achievement is that i buyed a new clarinet and it sounds better than the one that i used to play and the best is that i buyed it at half price.

 I think this have been a good semester, and i hope i win a contest to play in Uruguay with my trio of chamber music. So wish me luck.

How have you changed?

When i was a child i used to don't care about responsabilities and school homeworks, in that time my favourite things was play video games and go out to play with my friends. Now i have to care very much for responsabilities because i can't lose the jobs i sometimes get andi can't reprobate my subjects at the university. Today i have no time for video games and i have a nintendo 64 with some games at the bottom of my closet, i hope that someday we will meet again and past good moments like in the past. I have changed my nutrition because i have become lactose intolerant and the lactose milk puts my stomach very bad. When i was a child i don't use to like avocado and i only started to eat it about five years ago. At time i ate a lots of candys and today it's the opposite, i try not no eat suggar as possible and i enjoy very much eating fruits and vegetables. Other important change in me is the lost of vision, when i was a kid i used to have an eagle eye and i could catch sight the buses and their numeration at 300 meters of distance, for my luck, some unknown genius (for me at least) invented the eyeglasses.

A subject i enjoyed this semester

This semester a really enjoyed the subject of musical analysis.

 In classes we learn about analysis concepts like gesture, motif, phrase, etc. Also, we learn how to divide the music into periods, sections, phrases and semiphrases. We learn too what are the uses of the cadences and what part of the music they divides (generally a cadence indicates the end of a phrase, a semicadence indicate the end of a semiphrase [cadence = conclusive; semicadence = not conclusive]).

The main contents i have seen in this subject was the musical forms of waltz, menuetto and rondo. In the minuetto form we have to write an essay of a minuetto that we have played someday, i chosed the minuetto from the trio K 498 for clarinet, viola and piano and i have pasted very great moments analyzing that. Also, i discovered some things that i don't noticed the time that i played to it. Soon, i have to write a new essay, this time of the rondo form, so wish me luck.

Career Related Website

One of the best sites related with my career is IMSLP (https://imslp.org/). Here you can find a lot of music sheets of many composers. The first time i visited the site i was very excited because here i found sheets that i couldn't find in other sites. In the website there are many music for all the instruments, there are so many orchestrations of symphonies and music for big orchestras, there are music for solo instrument too, for solo instrument and piano accompaniment and a lot of chamber music.

When i need to find a sheet of something that i have to play IMSLP is first site that i visit and many times i have found what i was looking for here. So, if you someday need a music sheet or score, i hope you take a visit to IMSLP.

What are you passionate about?

One of my passions are the dogs, but i have talked enough of dogs in the past post, so i will talk about my other passion, the food. I really enjoy very much eating and i like to try new foods of other places of the world (in Santiago, obviously), one of my favourite non chilean foods are the shawarmas, the person who created the shawarmas was a genius and i owe him or her many great moments that i have pasted eating that. I love the shawarmas with falafel, also it contains many vegetables like tomato, lettuce, purple onion and an exquisite arabic yogurt. Other of my favourite foods is from the east too and comes from the India. I don't remember the name of the menus because they are very strange, but i can describe or try to describe them, all the menus have a base of rice and then you can choose the rest, it can be chopped chicken in a sauce of curry and other condiments, it can be chicken in tomato sauce, it can be white cheese in a spinach sauce (highly recommended) and fish in the same curry sauce that i have mentioned previously. There are other menus but i haven't tasted them.

Things that catch my attention on the street

Today i'm going to talk about the things that catch my attention on the street. First, i will start with things around my neighborhood, i live close to the hill and i go some days a week to walk with my dog Doqui here. Every week my attention is captured by the vegetation which each time is different, a couple of months ago everything was withered and the last two or three weeks i have noticed that the cactus are starting to bloom, the grass is growing up, the hawthorn are getting green and the nettle bushes are everywhere.

Other things that catch my attention in the street, are the ancient houses that i can see in the old neighborhoods, i am always getting impressed with the beauty of the old buildings. The details are so notorious and delicate, i hope i can live in an old house someday of Santiago or in a very high hill of Valparaíso with my good friend Doqui.