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[sanura]

Underclassmen had their last TAKS today, and I spent it taking a German CBE. Went fairly well, actually. A lot of it was identifying things I heard, there was some writing (with only one section of grammar I didn't know), and then an oral composition at the end... I had to tell them what I did every day, and it was really amazing how I couldn't come up with much besides music (that I could articulate in German). I finally figured cd was a German enough word, and mentioned that I listen every now and then to a cd of my friend Reggie playing piano "sehr dramatisch." Hopefully that is really the word for "dramatically." I'm not checking.

Spent the rest of the day stressing and doing last-minute preparations for the concert, and it was convenient cause I had classes with flexible teachers who would just let me out the whole time to find people and rehearse with them and jump and sigh at Reggie and hope this concert would work.

It's done. Sigh of relief. It did not crash-and-burn as badly as it could have.



seymour507glass: OH, gooooooood recording of your art song
seymour507glass: blah, it has such good transitions
seymour507glass: haha, theres sooooo much time beetween that and the opera... why did avalon conduct?
seymour507glass: GOD the cellos were sooo out of tune in scene one, WHATS WRONG WITH THEM, I WANT TO HIT THEM
seymour507glass: its not hard
seymour507glass: laura got lost in sathis song
Rion Soulkeeper: Avalon conducted cause I was singing
seymour507glass: yeah, i got that much
seymour507glass: oh i guess thats in
Rion Soulkeeper: And the cellos were not only out of tune
seymour507glass: i know i know
Rion Soulkeeper: they were off of the rhythm, too
seymour507glass: but they gotttttt back on eventualy
Rion Soulkeeper: eventually
seymour507glass: i hate that, sure there volenteering, but
Rion Soulkeeper: I was surprised they had that problem
seymour507glass: DAMNIT
Rion Soulkeeper: it's an ostinato, for hell's sake
seymour507glass: iknow!
seymour507glass: asdf
seymour507glass: scene one in general didnt go so well
seymour507glass: but it still sounds good, the orchestration os good
Rion Soulkeeper: Well
seymour507glass: well, no, the actualy composotion is wonderful
seymour507glass: EEEEEE
Rion Soulkeeper: ee?
seymour507glass: but you know, i think its great that we actualy pulled together a real orchestra together!
seymour507glass: it looked wonderfull on stage
Rion Soulkeeper: Yeah
Rion Soulkeeper: It was so much bigger than it seemed in rehearsals
seymour507glass: yeah
Rion Soulkeeper: I guess not everybody was ever at one rehearsal
seymour507glass: and actual chamber orchestra
Rion Soulkeeper: With one viola, but he worked quite well
seymour507glass: jd can play
seymour507glass: GOODTHING WE GOT HIM FOR LAST REHERSAL
seymour507glass: haha
Rion Soulkeeper: yes.
seymour507glass: that would be awful, with out a viola.......
Rion Soulkeeper: Pretty much.
seymour507glass: not the peice, im just saying
seymour507glass: the situation would suck
seymour507glass: sathi's song
seymour507glass: yay
Rion Soulkeeper: I know.
Rion Soulkeeper: Tell me how lost they got
seymour507glass: in sathi's song?
seymour507glass: sathi's song... some how was the best, i think
Rion Soulkeeper: I think conspiracy went pretty well
seymour507glass: sept the very begining, but after that it did
Rion Soulkeeper: what happened at the very beginning?
seymour507glass: just off in general, not AWFULY off, just a little
Rion Soulkeeper: hmm
seymour507glass: haha the "we come we come"
Rion Soulkeeper: it worked?
seymour507glass: well tony did it right, i think....
seymour507glass: but the other guy
seymour507glass: what worked?
seymour507glass: AH the modulation to g minor worked VERY well
Rion Soulkeeper: phh
Rion Soulkeeper: I wondered about that
seymour507glass: im sooooooo sorry
seymour507glass: about the interlude
seymour507glass: ahhhhh, i think they thin that i wrote the interlude! that must be it
Rion Soulkeeper: Shut up already, will you? It doesn't matter. It worked anyway, and you didn't throw anybody else off
seymour507glass: haha
seymour507glass: hey....... it kind of did work
Rion Soulkeeper: It did, I promise.
seymour507glass: you have good skills at... making it work'
seymour507glass: haha
Rion Soulkeeper: Well, thanks.
Rion Soulkeeper: AHHH
seymour507glass: OH NO
seymour507glass: E FLAT
seymour507glass: *STABS VIOLINS SECTION*
Rion Soulkeeper: It was only Jose
Rion Soulkeeper: but
Rion Soulkeeper: oh well
Rion Soulkeeper: he fixed it eventually
seymour507glass: oh no!
seymour507glass: it was a grace note
seymour507glass: haha
seymour507glass: i cant beleave my moms phone went off
seymour507glass: during my PEICEA
seymour507glass: SDF'
seymour507glass: when its actualy a peice that YOU wrote... its far more anoying
Rion Soulkeeper: I can imagine
seymour507glass: when its your only recording
Rion Soulkeeper: I was both glad and annoyed I got to turn pages, cause it's harder to pay attention to the whole piece
seymour507glass: i kind of like the little glis-e things jose does when he can find a note
Rion Soulkeeper: yeah
seymour507glass: hes not very good
Rion Soulkeeper: I think he might have done it on purpose on one though


Then I had to miss the chamber concert cause I had a B9 rehearsal (which was not run well... they didn't start rehearsing with the chorus until 40 minutes after we'd gotten in our rows backstage). It was very tiring, especially after having sung/conducted bits of a concert. Afterwards we went to a restaurant with some Rice kids and Dr Farwell and Tom. Quite fun. It's a pity the seniors are leaving. They're cool. Though every year it seems the seniors get less and less cool... What are kids these days coming to?

TOMORROW! I rejoice, for it is a Reggie day, and then a B9 concert. EEe!

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EEEeee EEE eee, i had a giant KNOT in my neck/back cus of nervs and stress i spose, but any way, it kept getting worse, and wrse and then they played the shosti, and it tensed up realllllly horibly, and i almost screamed, DAMNIT that peice is intense (the knot is gone! and ryan, i am canceling all my lessons for the weekend... if you want to do somthing saterday.... i feel like NOT doing work for one weekend, kik)