September 24th, 2014
Start: 10:00am
End: 5:15pm
Time: 7.25 hrs
Today was a bit slow around the office but that's ok. I came in and said hi to everyone in the office (I really love the vibe at the Guild, everyone is so positive and fun!). Before I got to work, I had a really nice conversation with Jane, my cubicle neighbor, about college and it was nice to hear her opinions, especially since she went to a music school (even though I'm not planning on attending a music school). I'm going to try to make it a point to talk to Jane each morning. As an administrative intern, I expected to do a little busy work so I guess today was the day since I spent most of the day inputting Score-Desk and Backstage Tour dates onto the metopera.org website. Score-Desk is when people buy special opera tickets so that when they go to the opera, they get their own desk where they can read But what's cool is that I'm making permanent changes to a world-renowned, often checked website! Inputting the data was a bit tedious, but it was nice to see the immediate results.
For lunch, my mom packed me a sandwich so I went to the Juilliard Cafeteria and ate with my friend Matt Gajda who has an internship nearby at the Kaufman School of Music. He said that he likes it, and I told him about my internship too-- we're actually doing a few similar things, so I'm looking forward to seeing how our internships will differ from each other at the end!
Fortunately, I was given a much more entertaining task for the afternoon: The Guild provides synopses of each opera for its members, so I was assigned to do some research on a handful of the operas to write synopses about them. Lacey assigned me the more "lesser-known" operas so at first I was a little intimidated by the task since I didn't know the plots, but after a while I was so glad that she assigned those operas to me because I learned so much! By the end of the day, I had detailed synopses written up about Die Meistersinger, The Death of Klinghoffer, Iolanta, Bluebeard's Castle, and Lady Macbeth of Mtsenk. Besides Die Meistersinger, this was actually the first time I learned anything about these operas, and now I really want to watch all of them! I'm really looking forward to learning as much as I can about opera during my internship.
The Opera House
Thursday, September 25, 2014
Wednesday, September 17, 2014
Week 1
September 17th, 2014
Start: 9:45am
End: 5:00pm
Hours: 7.25
I arrived at the Met Guild at 9:45am and after meeting up with my mentor Lacey and being introduced to a few other members of the Community Engagement Department, we all went to the Opera Learning Center (OLC) to go to the Tour Guide Volunteer's orientation. Even though I'm not a tour guide, they invited me to sit in and it was really interesting to see that each and every single thing about the tour was carefully looked at by Stuart, Lacey, and Elspeth, who are all in the Community Engagement Department with me. Afterwards, I got acclimated to my desk (I forgot to take a picture of it! Next week.) and Lacey went through all of my passwords and phone extension stuff. Then Kyle, one of the fellows at in the CE Department, gave me a tour of the office and we ended the tour at the OLC where we had to reorganize the furniture in the room for a program called Music for Aardvarks where this guy with a guitar comes in and sings to babies (below is a picture of the room reorganized).
Kyle is only about five years older than I am, so we got to talk a lot about college and he was really knowledgeable and kind. After we came back, Kyle and I printed out signs leading to the OLC and the Music for Aardvarks program and posted them accordingly. Lacey then let me look at the video archives that the Guild had and encouraged me to watch a lecture by a woman named Jane Marsh. I soon realized that Jane Marsh was my cubicle neighbor! And not only was she my cubicle partner, but, as I was to realize, she was also VERY knowledgeable in all things musicology and music history, and I really enjoyed her lecture! Even though she seemed a little busy, I made it a point to tap her on the shoulder and compliment her on the lecture of hers that I was watching, and she seemed very happy to hear that. My mom packed me lunch so I just ate in the Juilliard cafeteria.
After lunch, I was invited to sit in on one of the CE Department's meetings. At first I didn't say much because they were settling issues from their previous meeting so I didn't really get what was going on. Then they started talking about a new issue which was getting feedback from the Guild members about their lectures. Working on Student Council, we had a project like this last year where we sent out a survey to the student body about teachers and the flipped classroom. I was able to give the CE Department a lot of good advice and they all seemed to take whatever I had to say into consideration which I really appreciated. I also took good note of the way that Stuart led the meeting; he made sure that everyone participated so that he wasn't the only one talking and wasn't afraid to assign other people besides himself with assignments.
By the time the meeting was over, there was only about and hour and a half of my day left. Lacey assigned me a small task of inputting some information onto the Met Opera calendar. Because of this, I learned VERY basic HTML and got to input all of the dates of upcoming Score-Desk dates which is when people can buy tickets to sit at a desk during an opera and read from a score instead of watching the opera. It was a great first day, and I'm looking forward to next week!
Start: 9:45am
End: 5:00pm
Hours: 7.25
I arrived at the Met Guild at 9:45am and after meeting up with my mentor Lacey and being introduced to a few other members of the Community Engagement Department, we all went to the Opera Learning Center (OLC) to go to the Tour Guide Volunteer's orientation. Even though I'm not a tour guide, they invited me to sit in and it was really interesting to see that each and every single thing about the tour was carefully looked at by Stuart, Lacey, and Elspeth, who are all in the Community Engagement Department with me. Afterwards, I got acclimated to my desk (I forgot to take a picture of it! Next week.) and Lacey went through all of my passwords and phone extension stuff. Then Kyle, one of the fellows at in the CE Department, gave me a tour of the office and we ended the tour at the OLC where we had to reorganize the furniture in the room for a program called Music for Aardvarks where this guy with a guitar comes in and sings to babies (below is a picture of the room reorganized).
Kyle is only about five years older than I am, so we got to talk a lot about college and he was really knowledgeable and kind. After we came back, Kyle and I printed out signs leading to the OLC and the Music for Aardvarks program and posted them accordingly. Lacey then let me look at the video archives that the Guild had and encouraged me to watch a lecture by a woman named Jane Marsh. I soon realized that Jane Marsh was my cubicle neighbor! And not only was she my cubicle partner, but, as I was to realize, she was also VERY knowledgeable in all things musicology and music history, and I really enjoyed her lecture! Even though she seemed a little busy, I made it a point to tap her on the shoulder and compliment her on the lecture of hers that I was watching, and she seemed very happy to hear that. My mom packed me lunch so I just ate in the Juilliard cafeteria.
After lunch, I was invited to sit in on one of the CE Department's meetings. At first I didn't say much because they were settling issues from their previous meeting so I didn't really get what was going on. Then they started talking about a new issue which was getting feedback from the Guild members about their lectures. Working on Student Council, we had a project like this last year where we sent out a survey to the student body about teachers and the flipped classroom. I was able to give the CE Department a lot of good advice and they all seemed to take whatever I had to say into consideration which I really appreciated. I also took good note of the way that Stuart led the meeting; he made sure that everyone participated so that he wasn't the only one talking and wasn't afraid to assign other people besides himself with assignments.
By the time the meeting was over, there was only about and hour and a half of my day left. Lacey assigned me a small task of inputting some information onto the Met Opera calendar. Because of this, I learned VERY basic HTML and got to input all of the dates of upcoming Score-Desk dates which is when people can buy tickets to sit at a desk during an opera and read from a score instead of watching the opera. It was a great first day, and I'm looking forward to next week!
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