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natalie

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About Me

I go to Melba Conservatorium of Music
I play the Piano
I love being at Melba.
The Melba pianists rock [&hearts]
The people there are amazing, friendly and very supportive.
I love my boyfriend.
He stops me from going insane.
I am a hippie.
I love a good cup of coffee, nice insence and a grand piano to sit at.
I love to study music history. It is my world and my love.
I want to be a Music Historian.
I can't stand animal cruelty.
I am a vegetarian.
I wear tie - dye, cheese cloth and anything else from the 70's.
I love to make and wear beads.
I love to lecture and talk to people about music history.
I teach piano to 2 beautiful children.
Rachmaninov is my idol and he has a great influence on me.
I push myself to be the best pianist I can be.
‘A short piece for piano has always given me much more pain, and has presented to me many more problems than a symphony or a concerto. Somehow, in writing for an orchestra, the variety of colours provided by the instruments brings me many different ideas and effects, but when I write a small piece for the piano I am at the mercy of my thematic idea, which must be presented concisely and without digression.’ - Rachmaninov

My Interests



"The history of European music is neither more not less than the history of any other art; the artist employs one idiom until it's resources are exhausted, and then seeks for other means of self - expression."

I love my piano
Rachmaninov [♥]
Chris
My music history books
Cyril Nri
Dylan Moran
Fleetwood Mac
Coffee
IPod
Melba Con [♥]
Incense
Star Trek
Sympho and Stage Band
Cookies [♥]
Music History
St Andrews
Tie-Dye

I'd like to meet:



Music:



Jethro Tull
Toto
James Grehan
Fogg
Janis Joplin
Solders of the Sun
The Fray
The Polyphonic Spree
Devendra Banhart
Miles Davis
Angelique Kidjo
Yothu Yindi
Metropolitan Jazz Affair
Fleetwood Mac
Thompson
Ben Lee
The Cat Empire
Missy Higgins
The White Stripes
Youssou N'Dour
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Wolfmother
Baruni
Enya
John Butler Trio
The Who
Billy Joel
System of the Down
The Stranglers
Something for Kate

Movies:

New Page 1 Star Trek Nemisis
Star Trek First Contact
Star Trek Insurrection
Star Trek Generations
.....and you get the point

Television:

New Page 1 The Bill
Big Brother
Star Trek Enterprise
Black Books

Scrubs
Star Trek The Next Generation
Star Trek Voyager
Star Trek Deep Space Nine
.....ok, as you see i'm clearly a Star Trek Geek
House
7th Heaven
Desperate Housewives

Books:

New Page 2

Dancing Barefoot
Just a Geek
Scar Tissue
Montana 1948
The Eyre Affair
A History of Western Music [♥]
In Memory of Rachmaninov
Style in Music Art
A Heritage of Music
Something Fishy! Hazel Green

Heroes:



Ryan for your inspiration, jokes & your love
You are my world.
Kristen for being the best sister ever [&hearts]
The Melba Pianists [&hearts]
Hristijan, Elly, Anastasia, Vanessa,
Michael, Daniel and Mila.
Ronnie, Tom & Elyane:
The greatest piano teachers I've ever had.

My Blog

Dylan Moran

You know when you're young you can go out and drink battery acid all night, wake up and get in a fight.But when you get a little bit older, it's really evil coz you wake up and you think you're fine. ...
Posted by natalie on Tue, 22 May 2007 05:18:00 PST

Concert Class

Played in concert class Excellent performance today by everyone.I loved the huge "POTATOES!!!" I got from Lyn and Ryan.That made me feel so much better.Everything went well until I had the stupid memo...
Posted by natalie on Thu, 10 May 2007 01:36:00 PST

I love Melba

I want to be back at uni right now. I hate being at home!I want to study music history.I want to get a huge morning cuddle from Ryan. I want to feel the overwhelming excitement everytime Owen starts a...
Posted by natalie on Sun, 22 Apr 2007 02:54:00 PST

Chopin Etude No. 3 in E Major

Damn it! I'm so annoyed with myself right now I want to go die in a holeCan't get the Chopin Etude rightI can't be "feminine" enoughI can't make the melody singMy technical ability sucksAll I get is "...
Posted by natalie on Thu, 19 Apr 2007 03:53:00 PST

Studying medieval music history

Ok, so for the holidays I have to catch up on 6 weeks of 2nd year music history class. There's a shit load of notes I have to read but the thing I'm looking forward to the most is reading 'A History o...
Posted by natalie on Tue, 03 Apr 2007 10:26:00 PST

Prokofiev's Toccatta Opus 11 in D Minor

Ok... So annoyed and confused right now I am attempting to learn Prokofiev's Toccatta Opus 11 in D Minor. I have spent the last 2 hours trying to learn it, and I've only managed to do 2 pages so ...
Posted by natalie on Thu, 01 Mar 2007 07:48:00 PST

I love my Music History Books

I have just had the most amazing day I walked into Melba Conservatorium thismorning, to find 2 boxes full of books and music from the library....They were no longer wanted in the library and were...
Posted by natalie on Wed, 28 Feb 2007 02:25:00 PST