The past two weeks have been disrupted because of Thanksgiving and because of various PyCon-related tasks such as final selection of talks and scheduling them. Jeff was away on vacation, so there was no lesson last week. Despite all that, tonight's lesson went well: the arpeggios are sounding good, though I'll be continuing with them another week;
thumb-position piece also good; the etude had the wrong rhythm but my fingering was OK. Even the Trowell piece was in relatively good shape, though Jeff continues to despair at how I get the hardest passages right while screwing up on the two simplest measures. (I think it's because those measures are so simple that I speed through them because I can.) My performance still continues to be frustratingly close to being correct, without actually being correct.
New stuff: a different thumb-position etude; a different movement of the Trowell piece; and next week, a new book, Feuillard's 60 Etudes for Young Cellists. It's already ordered from Shar Music; the first etude is apparently all trills...