Saturday, March 04, 2006

Just performed at VCH tonight under four different batons, including Mr Lee Yuk Chuan's. Know nuts about him despite the three other nights spent with the entire group rehearsing his compositions...
All I remember's that he reminds me of my granddad- skinny, smily, always forgiving.
By the usual standards, sis and I played like crap. Then again, it isn't really fair to compare the performance with other instances. For one, we've only had three rehearsals!!! For two, the last piece was so unreasonably cut down in proportion WITHOUT any warning- can't expect us to play quite so well, huh? Sooo very grateful that we've had such a responsive concert master as Mark Chan. Amazing. He just picked the bits that the piece had crumbled into and put it together like that... amazing.
Even with the lousy playing from sis and I, I wasn't actually disappointed in our playing.. the experience was well worth it. At the very least, it taught that performers, after all the glitz and glam, are very much normal human beings- the whole show of presenting bouquets to the composer seemed like nothing out of the ordinary- yet from below the stage it would certainly have looked a grand flourish. Sitting on the stage, too, is really all about nerves- or the lack of. The lack of, because if you don't have nerves, you wouldn't be able to feel nervous.. Makes sense? maybe not.
Ahh well. Came to know at least one other person today while waiting for our turn on stage- Andrea from SNYO. She's only sec3 and already a marvelous orchestral leader! She sat next to the vln II section leader, but apart from being a bunch of years younger than him she would've led the section anyway.
Amazing.
So much to learn from people.
So much more to understand on my own.

till then, bedtime!
=)
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12:57 AM