The danger of telling you all that I will do an audition is that you also want to know how it went. I played just okay this morning, but of course you need to play perfect to win. There were 35 candidates from all over Europe, most of them very very good. I think seven of them went to the second round. Somebody told me it takes about 7 auditions before you're accepted somewhere. This was only my second so I don't need to worry yet :) I don't want to make excuses, but I have to say, of all the candidates, I was most unlucky, for I had to play first. They started right away, so I had no 10 minutes to play before like the others... But to be honest, these 10 minutes could not have made me win. Better luck next time.
(For all musicians: I always got the advice that the orchestral excerpts are the most important. Well maybe, in the end, but I didn't play any, they only asked the first two pages of Schubert's Arpeggione.)
The transplant is planned on December 16. The treatment will start about 10 days before. So the 6th or 7th December I will go to the hospital. It's coming very near and I'm getting a bit nervous. A bit down as well, because 'till today I could work and look forward to this audition, but now it's just waiting for THE DAY...
