In pupil housing, Demiray was shortly making new mates. She was closest together with her roommate, a horn participant. They would collect on staircases at Lenfest with different college students to sing choral music for enjoyable. After attending a party throughout her first week, she joined a gaggle to prepare considered one of her personal, a masquerade for the vacations.
During 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 form of lesson that may’t actually be taught within the classroom. “It jogged my memory,” she mentioned, “that every part we now have in music is a matter of perspective.”
FEW CURTIS STUDENTS really 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 dwelling, he mentioned, was like “a vacuum.” At first, he didn’t sleep effectively as a result of he felt as if he must be doing one thing. After just a few days, he felt himself chill out 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 favored, and it was unpleasantly sizzling, however she felt refreshed when she received again to high school for extra auditions and a starring position in Poulenc’s one-act opera “Les Mamelles de Tirésias.”