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Kiera Knightley and, I think, Orland Bloom live down the road from me somewhere.
England. England!
My name is Laura Carpenter. I go to Boston University. I'm in the College of Fine Arts.
I'm spending the term in London at the Royal College of Music--that one--doing the same
things I would be doing back home but, conveniently, in England.
It's the experience of being in the place where classical music grew up before it grew
up in America.
You come here and you have Benjamin Britten and Gustav Holst; the greats. And then you
look around and you see the Royal College of Music and you see the Albert Hall. You're
in the place where it all started.
And then you meet people. You see all these people your age doing what you want to do--just
play all this amazing classical music.
Conducting? I love conducting. Peter Stark, the professor, is one of those men that knows
exactly what he's doing all the time and can tell you exactly how to do what you need to
I mean, I wanted the Bah-Pahs. So, I was doing the swish and flick but it wasn't working.
In order to do the Bah-Pah what you have to do is to whip a little bit.
And he's hilarious. And he's so clear.
Everything starts in here. Everything starts between the ears. And if you get the idea
right in your head and then project it then the body language will kick in.
Good stuff. Great, thank you very much!
As a musician I try to get into everything, so another thing I've been doing in London
is playing with a local band called Stanley. Stanley like the name.
They put up a sign; trumpeter wanted for indie, folk, country rock band. And I was like, oh,
I like indie, folk, country rock.
So I emailed the guy and then I had a rehearsal with the whole band. What I did is I made
trumpet parts to fit into the their songs that they already had and we sort of worked
it all out together, where I would play and what I would play.
So, playing with them--I did a gig with them last week--and I just ended up in this bar
and we played and they buy you drinks and they talk to you and they talk to you about
America. It's kind of a different side of the music scene.
It's so exciting. It's like this web of awesome-ness.