Saturday, February 25, 2006
It's been exactly one week since my first-ever (proper) audition.
Richard Pontzious is gay???
Hmm.
Don't care.
Then again, sight-reading really CAN make or break you.
Bleahz.
That's all I wanna mention here about it, i guess- just for the sake of having it recorded somewhere to chance upon someday in the future.
GAAAARH.
Today's Saturday.. SYTO day!
Got free tix to tomorrow's concert with soloist Ivan Peev (how do u pronounce that??) and Maestro Lee.. from the maestro himself!!! woohoooo!!! I luv mr lee! he's so kind to us li'l kids.. like a great big friendly huggable teddy bear! whoops. I didn't say that! :D .. Going to listen to the soloist, actually.. even though Rachel (haven't seen her since!) and I sat directly behind him as miscellaneous SLO members in Street Scenes, still don't know his playing style.. All I remember's him sawing away with such effortless ease, Rachel and I on the other hand trying not to play something too obviously out of tune :P despite all that home practice too!!! sheesh! shouldn't have practised for that- then again I would've been harder on myself for having played so much crap. It all balances up, doesn't it? If it can even be called balance, that is.
Yup. Getting free tix was One.
Two was something rather out of the ordinary.
Mr Lee actually asked sis and I during break if we would play for some charity concert this friday- that gives us.. 6 days, counting Sunday. WHOA. First time performing on a friday; first time being asked to play in an orchestra; first time being given such short notice for something like that; first time playing in a charity concert; first time being conducted by 3 different people onstage, goodness know what other firsts there'll be. Don't even know what concert it is- internet search only hinted that it may be some collaboration with NTU. :S:S:S
As we walked away from practice sis and I toyed with the idea that Mr Lee could've asked us to play because he'd thought we auditioned to get into SLO last round. THOUGHT. He was, after all, the only double-bassist in that same production.. Just wait till he hears our playing for real! Don't change your mind, Mr Lee!!! (or else, just play deaf and everything will be just fine) :P
Anyhow, still ery much looking forward to Monday's rehearsal! The conductor told us that everyone'd be sight-reading since scores wouldn't be out till then.
*gulps*
from now, sight-reading shall be my best friend.
Three was being piled with scores of Vieuxtemps and Ravel and goodness knows what other composers. By the WT. aka u-know-who aka Water Tank (i luv geography maps!). Haha I still recall how when Egg and I met at last year's piano violin competition finals, we wondered at how the V name was supposed to be pronounced.. vee-youx-temp-s? Nah. probably vee-youuu-temps? .. either way, it sounded weird. We sorta agreed on the former, i think.. Now i realise how it probably should be pronounced.. WT said it as vee-you-tom-(p). So we were half-right after all! blaaaargh. makes no difference.
Need to choose proper pieces to play for 'future auditions', as WT so tactfully put it. It was more of an awareness that learning La Folia for 3 years is a little too long.
THREE YEARS!
it's not like i could get all the notes lar.. but THREE YEARS isn't quite what many would agree at as a healthy duration during which to learn a piece that lasts TEN MINUTES. Not so fair a comparison, is it?
Oh well. That's what you get from learning under an inhumanly perfectionist professional. What have I got to say?
nothing, up till all that i've ranted about.
for now.
heeeeeeeeeeeh
gtg do math now. horrible math. disgustingly unfathomable to my insufferably inabsorbant little mass of grey tissue.
or am i going to?
i dunno.
I don't foresee the future, do i?
:D
stomached it at
7:54 PM
