From my personal learning blog, I can see the many improvements I have made over the semester. I came into the semester with no experience in conducting, but my dance background was helpful during the early stages of understanding the ways in which our body moves. However, I know from the start that I have very little coordination when it comes to moving my hands independently. I think that can be seen early on in the exercise where we bounced a ball with one hand and did the kinesphere exercises with the other. When, looking back at my videos, I think I have improved a lot in this area, but I still have more progress to make. I also think that I have grown immensely in my level of comfort with the baton. As a choral singer, I am definitely not very familiar with them, but I feel like I have grasped the basic patterns and etiquette. In preparation for the final, I think I need to focus more on isolating my left hand, so that my gestures are clear and distinct. I think that lots of practice will help with this. However, because I am Voice Performance, this will be my last conducting class of my undergraduate degree. Perhaps at the graduate level I will have more chances to explore this art form.

Here is a link to the recording of the Vaughan Williams piece: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XbT4IOt59HU

Here is the link to my Twinkle Twinkle video: http://youtu.be/fg-xHrzZtNY

Hope you enjoy!