Week 9

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!