Wednesday, November 12, 2014
Start (pt. 1): 8:00am
End (pt. 1): 11:00am
Start (pt. 2): 11:45am
End (pt. 2): 5:00pm
Time: 8.25 hrs
Today was split into two parts because for the first part of the day I went to school to rehearse with the pit orchestra for the winter musical, Kiss Me Kate. Normally, seniors can't be part of pit orchestra since it's a Wednesday project but I was lucky enough to be able to do it this year (my fourth year now!) since the pit needed someone who could double on saxophone and clarinet. However, I'm not playing the soprano clarinet and alto/tenor sax that I'm used to regularly playing but instead I'm playing bass clarinet and baritone saxophone, which, as you can imagine, are really hard to set up and carry around. But nonetheless, I really enjoy it; not playing the melody the whole time has its own unique perks and I have a lot of fun playing my part. Once I got to play with the orchestra I realized just how much I missed playing in pit-- it's something that I really want to continue doing in college!
After the rehearsal, my mom picked me up from school and we went to Lincoln Center (I ate my lunch on the way there). Once I got to the Guild, there was a program survey that I had to input data from, which took me about an hour, which was when I had to go to the social media meeting. There, I was assigned to work on a few posts including one about the final dress rehearsal of The Barber of Seville, Rentals of the OLC, the Met Premiere of Hansel and Gretel, and the Met Premiere of Don Giovanni. When I got back from the meeting I started working on the Barber post, but soon after I attended the Community Engagement Meeting, where we talked about the usual things. The Community Engagement Department is having a volunteer party soon so that's the main thing on people's minds right now.
After all of the meetings, I had some time to work on the social media posts, which were a lot easier to put together than usual. Afterwards, Fred (the IT guy) set up a Tessitura account for me helped me log in. Tessitura is a program that organizes ticket sales and other data. Kyle came over then showed me what I had to do on Tessitura which was basically cancelling any wait list tickets of events that have already happened. This is going to take a while!
The Opera House
Wednesday, November 19, 2014
Wednesday, November 12, 2014
Week 8
Thursday, November 6th, 2014
Start: 11:45am
End: 5:00pm
Time: 5.25 hrs.
Today I came in on a Thursday since I visited Brown University yesterday and couldn't come to my internship. Lucky for me I had today off because of the Teachers' Convention so I got to come to my internship today. I came in later than usual and Stuart had one data survey for me to enter into Excel. I was interrupted in between logging in the info when Kyle came and we went to the OLC to set up for Jane's lecture, the last of a three-part series about Verdi Baritones. After setting up I was able to go back to the office and finish up the survey before I had to go out to the main lobby to welcome the people who came for the lecture. I helped tear people's tickets and hand out surveys (a program survey this time). Afterwards, I got to watch Jane's lecture too! Even though this was the only lecture of the three that I was able to watch, I really enjoyed the lecture. And not only was it a lecture, but there was also a live performance by a Verdi baritone named Dong Kyu Oh and he was very, very good! I really enjoyed both the performance and the lecture. What I think I enjoyed most was the way the Jane gives her lectures. She's very expressive, as if she's singing (and she is a singer, by the way) and always knows when to throw a good joke in every once in a while. But most of all, she is passionate! I have a project coming up in Senior Music Seminar where I have to talk about Schumann, so I hope I can get a few tricks from her!
I had to rush out of the OLC after the lecture in order to collect everyone's surveys so once I got back to my desk, I was busy logging in another survey! Even though the program survey is much shorter than the data survey, the program survey is much more difficult to log because you have to check all of the questions that apply instead of only choosing one answer, so that took about an hour and a half to finish. I'm very curious to see what becomes of all of this data.
Start: 11:45am
End: 5:00pm
Time: 5.25 hrs.
Today I came in on a Thursday since I visited Brown University yesterday and couldn't come to my internship. Lucky for me I had today off because of the Teachers' Convention so I got to come to my internship today. I came in later than usual and Stuart had one data survey for me to enter into Excel. I was interrupted in between logging in the info when Kyle came and we went to the OLC to set up for Jane's lecture, the last of a three-part series about Verdi Baritones. After setting up I was able to go back to the office and finish up the survey before I had to go out to the main lobby to welcome the people who came for the lecture. I helped tear people's tickets and hand out surveys (a program survey this time). Afterwards, I got to watch Jane's lecture too! Even though this was the only lecture of the three that I was able to watch, I really enjoyed the lecture. And not only was it a lecture, but there was also a live performance by a Verdi baritone named Dong Kyu Oh and he was very, very good! I really enjoyed both the performance and the lecture. What I think I enjoyed most was the way the Jane gives her lectures. She's very expressive, as if she's singing (and she is a singer, by the way) and always knows when to throw a good joke in every once in a while. But most of all, she is passionate! I have a project coming up in Senior Music Seminar where I have to talk about Schumann, so I hope I can get a few tricks from her!
I had to rush out of the OLC after the lecture in order to collect everyone's surveys so once I got back to my desk, I was busy logging in another survey! Even though the program survey is much shorter than the data survey, the program survey is much more difficult to log because you have to check all of the questions that apply instead of only choosing one answer, so that took about an hour and a half to finish. I'm very curious to see what becomes of all of this data.
Monday, November 3, 2014
Week 7
October 29th, 2014
Start: 9:45am
End: 5:00pm
Time: 7.25 hrs.
When I came in today, Stuart already had two sets of data surveys (the longer of the two surveys that we give out to the event goers) at my desk, adding up to about 150 surveys in total, so I worked on inputting the data from those surveys for the majority of my day. Before I go to work, however, I made sure to update Jane about my college application happenings. At around lunch time, Kyle and I arranged the OLC room for Aardvarks. Afterwards, I attended two meetings. The first one was a social media meeting, and everyone there was very happy about my feature on the Met Guild; apparently it got the most likes since a Pavarotti post (to think that I could be compared to Pavarotti even in something as small as this-- how cool!) Here is the Facebook post:
In addition to getting the last parts of National Opera Week organized, I was also assigned to create a post about Mozart's The Magic Flute and a promotional post about a 20th century opera course. If I weren't so busy because of school, I would have loved to attend this class! It talks about all of my favorite operas this season, Bluebeard's Castle, The Death of Klinghoffer, and The Rake's Progress!
At 2pm, I attended the Community Engagement Meeting and I was happy to report that after making a small edit to the survey that I suggested last week, the people responded much better! The issue with last week's surveys was that the question about income levels was on the front of the sheet, making it easy for people to see other people's answers. I suggested it to be on the inside and surprisingly many more people ended up answering the question because of that small edit, in fact 11.7% more people answered the question when it was on the inside! Stuart seemed very happy because of that, so I'm glad that I'm really making a difference here at the Guild!
I'm watching The Death of Klinghoffer this Saturday with a few friends from my precollege program at the Manhattan School of Music and I'm SO excited! I'll be sure to post some photos from that night in a future post.
Start: 9:45am
End: 5:00pm
Time: 7.25 hrs.
When I came in today, Stuart already had two sets of data surveys (the longer of the two surveys that we give out to the event goers) at my desk, adding up to about 150 surveys in total, so I worked on inputting the data from those surveys for the majority of my day. Before I go to work, however, I made sure to update Jane about my college application happenings. At around lunch time, Kyle and I arranged the OLC room for Aardvarks. Afterwards, I attended two meetings. The first one was a social media meeting, and everyone there was very happy about my feature on the Met Guild; apparently it got the most likes since a Pavarotti post (to think that I could be compared to Pavarotti even in something as small as this-- how cool!) Here is the Facebook post:
At 2pm, I attended the Community Engagement Meeting and I was happy to report that after making a small edit to the survey that I suggested last week, the people responded much better! The issue with last week's surveys was that the question about income levels was on the front of the sheet, making it easy for people to see other people's answers. I suggested it to be on the inside and surprisingly many more people ended up answering the question because of that small edit, in fact 11.7% more people answered the question when it was on the inside! Stuart seemed very happy because of that, so I'm glad that I'm really making a difference here at the Guild!
I'm watching The Death of Klinghoffer this Saturday with a few friends from my precollege program at the Manhattan School of Music and I'm SO excited! I'll be sure to post some photos from that night in a future post.
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