Date Night(s) With The Cabinet

I have had a date scheduled for many years with the multiple boxes that contain nearly all the music I acquired while I was in school (the first time) as well as copies of some of the more technical symphonies I've played over the years. The boxes themselves started yelling at me from the inside of my closet declaring that they were cashing in my rainchecks about. Who am I to argue with the boxes that live in the same room as my underwear. They could have a field day if they ever decided to get even...

I made a trip to Target to buy a file cabinet and set to work. At first I was naive enough to think it would take only a couple evenings. I was wrong. It has been over a week and I'm still sorting. I would go so far as to say that I am only a little over half of the way through. And my living room is a mess of stacked piles.

The tough part is that most of the music is actually photocopies from my professor's files and therefore are just 8.5" X 11" sheets of paper with no titles. There are random sheets all over! Sorting them requires a quiet room so I can sing the tune to myself and then rack my brain as to the composer, piece and movement. (Having background music playing makes the process longer.) For example, I need to be able to look at a sheet and determing that its the 2nd page of Beethoven's 9 Symphony 4th movement unlabeled. Needless to say, its pretty time consuming.

The good news is that I will never have to do this again. And I'll be able to find everything quickly rather than searching through 3 boxes to find the last page of the last movement of that concerto I learned 7 years ago. It'll be great!