Week 5

October 15th, 2014
Start: 9:45am
End: 5:00pm
Time: 7.25 hrs

     This was my first week without Lacey so even though I don't have a mentor right now, I was able to ask around if people needed help and Stuart was one of the first people to assign me a project. The first of the two was really short: I just had to write down lyrics from a score. It had two verses and one chorus so it only took five minutes to do. Here's the song:

 


















      The lyrics sheets are going to be used during the High School Vocalist's Workshop which is starting on the 26th. It's pretty weird that high school students seem so young in a work setting like this and then I have to remind myself that I'm a high school student! Anyways, after that project, Stuart assigned me a longer one which took me until lunch time to complete. Backstage Tours started up again recently and there was a video of a Q&A session about what renovations the Met made backstage. However, some of the questions were hard to hear so I had to pause the video and replay the clips over and over again until I could make an educated guess of what the person was asking. After that I wrote the question down so that Stuart could edit the video and put the subtitles in when the question came up in the video. Some of them were tough to decipher, but Stuart seemed really happy with the results.
     I had lunch at 1pm with Matt in the JCaf. We talked about college and our application processes seem so different since he's only applying to conservatories and I'm not applying to any. After lunch, I headed back up to the office and the Social Media meeting had just finished so I asked Rebecca whether there was anything I needed to do or not but she said there wasn't anything. Shortly afterwards, I went to the Community Engagement meeting and we talked about a lot of things from how we are planning on hiring a part-time worker to help balance out Lacey's responsibilities now that she's gone to our newest version of surveys. The data collecting itself hasn't started yet, but I know that once it does I'll be very busy since inputting and organizing all f the data is going to be my responsibility. But for now everything is really lax at the office. One thing that I found interesting (but perhaps not interesting in a good way) is that all Backstage Tours on the dates of The Death of Klinghoffer had to be cancelled because the NYPD said that only certified Met members were allowed in the Met on those show dates. Crazy to think how controversial this opera has become.