Victorin Joncières

Holidays can be tough. You tell yourself to take a break, from all the stress of going into uni three days a week for seventeen hours of class. But then you say to that voice in your head, "NO! It WAS quite stressful, there were assignments and group performances and recitals. I practiced all the time. I deserve to spend the majority of my three months of holidays on facebook, discovering new blogs to waste my time reading."

But then you realise that no, if you are to be any kind of musician, you need to practice. Even when there's nothing pressing. That's the point of practice.

But then you look at some of your pieces for next year, and you say, "Jeez random French guy, do I REALLY have to play eleven notes in one crotchet beat? Really?" and everything's just a bit too hard.

And that's when you flick open "24 Short Concert Pieces for Flute and Piano" (or insert instrument relevant 3rd - 5th grade AMEB standard compendium) and remind yourself of past exams and school concerts, and make a lot of the same mistakes you used to, but also make yourself happy because you don't have to take so many breaths, and you understand what phrases do now, and you're all round just that bit better.

And then you google Victorin Joncières and think "hey man, cool moustache."

And then you post his picture with annoying Getty Images stamp partially obscuring said stunning

mo to your obscure little in-joke blog with its readership of mainly your music friends and that one

random guy, and you are happy and finally go to bed.

Fin.