![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
Monday, Monday
Monday, December 5th, 2005 02:54 pmThe concert went well, although everybody said later they made the same mistakes as in the very beginning. The third trombone was especially good (*hearts*).
We hardly recognised James in his full concert apparel, to our delight and amazement was actually wearing a tailcoat. And a white bow tie. We shouldn't have been surprised since he was only following the conductor dress code, but... still.
To quote Erinn: "Wooow. I have never seen him sooo... groomed." - "Yeah, I know, the glasses are gone." - "Nah, it's the non-floppy hair that does it for me."
And although his biggest fan says that he is a great conductor of boundless musical talent (fine, she did not say exactly that...), some of us of the less priviledged voices might argue that he might cue us as well once in a while, and not only the sopranos, by common agreement the most important voices in the choir, the basses (his own voice) and the tenors, the second most important voice.
I have also been dead wrong about the number of people who'd be there. Instead of the anticipated 14 bored people, there was a mass of around 400 enraged parents, some of which were sent away again because there just was not enough room in the church, even though people already were sitting in the aisle on cushions. One of our basses had all the friends he invited turned away! Poor guy. The same happened to Erinn, whose whole family couldn't get in.
As anticipated, it was so loud that most people had difficulties hearing themselves, let alone their voice. I have never done so well in reading music as on Sunday night. Still, nearly everybody made their pet mistakes. And as always, I had a soprano with a secret wish for a soloist career next to me who made my ear hurt. Well, but at least that meant that she knew what she was doing, so I never missed a cue if I read along when she was singing.
But all in all, it was beautiful. Williams' Job is a very impressive piece I cannot really impressively describe because I lack the suitable impressive technical terms, so I can only say that it is beautiful and that our orchestra did really great work. The Dohnányi was really great as well. It is so sad that we'll no longer be able to sing it, I know I'll miss it.
And although I don't like him, I really appreciate James' work. He's been rehearsing not only with the Kelvin Ensemble and the Chapel Choir, but also the Choral Society, which sounds like a lot of work and stress. So - well done, James. There, I've said it. I hope Crocky never finds this entry.
We hardly recognised James in his full concert apparel, to our delight and amazement was actually wearing a tailcoat. And a white bow tie. We shouldn't have been surprised since he was only following the conductor dress code, but... still.
To quote Erinn: "Wooow. I have never seen him sooo... groomed." - "Yeah, I know, the glasses are gone." - "Nah, it's the non-floppy hair that does it for me."
And although his biggest fan says that he is a great conductor of boundless musical talent (fine, she did not say exactly that...), some of us of the less priviledged voices might argue that he might cue us as well once in a while, and not only the sopranos, by common agreement the most important voices in the choir, the basses (his own voice) and the tenors, the second most important voice.
I have also been dead wrong about the number of people who'd be there. Instead of the anticipated 14 bored people, there was a mass of around 400 enraged parents, some of which were sent away again because there just was not enough room in the church, even though people already were sitting in the aisle on cushions. One of our basses had all the friends he invited turned away! Poor guy. The same happened to Erinn, whose whole family couldn't get in.
As anticipated, it was so loud that most people had difficulties hearing themselves, let alone their voice. I have never done so well in reading music as on Sunday night. Still, nearly everybody made their pet mistakes. And as always, I had a soprano with a secret wish for a soloist career next to me who made my ear hurt. Well, but at least that meant that she knew what she was doing, so I never missed a cue if I read along when she was singing.
But all in all, it was beautiful. Williams' Job is a very impressive piece I cannot really impressively describe because I lack the suitable impressive technical terms, so I can only say that it is beautiful and that our orchestra did really great work. The Dohnányi was really great as well. It is so sad that we'll no longer be able to sing it, I know I'll miss it.
And although I don't like him, I really appreciate James' work. He's been rehearsing not only with the Kelvin Ensemble and the Chapel Choir, but also the Choral Society, which sounds like a lot of work and stress. So - well done, James. There, I've said it. I hope Crocky never finds this entry.
