Wednesday, December 10th, 2014
Start (pt. 1): 9:00am
End (pt. 1): 11:00am
Start (pt. 2): 11:45am
End (pt. 2): 7:00pm
Total: 9.25 hrs
I started today by going to school for a pit orchestra rehearsal which went really well! Today was the first time that our orchestra met as a whole and got to play all together. Along with me who comes at least once a month, there are also two professional trumpet players named Peter and Dave and a french horn player named Ian. Peter and Dave came to rehearsal early like I did so we were able to get to know each other well which was really nice. Dingus, my robot baby for health class, was a great conversation starter. I had to bring Dingus to school, but thank goodness I didn't have to bring him to the Met! Fortunately he didn't cry at all during rehearsal. The rehearsal itself was really good-- we got through about a quarter of the show, which has me feeling very confident and more and more excited as tech week approaches!
I got to the Met and got to talk to Jane and congratulate her on her wonderful recital! My mom and I went last Thursday and we both had such a good time, Jane is an incredible singer! She was really happy that I enjoyed it, and I told her about how nervous I am for tomorrow, which is when the Columbia Early Decision results come out! She wished me good luck, and I began to work, starting with inputting the data to my LAST survey, woohoo! Afterwards I set up the OLC with Kyle and put up the Aardvark signs.
We still brainstormed and further developed ideas for any 2015 campaigns during our social media meeting, and I think that it is coming along. At 1:30 we had a Community Engagement Meeting where we talked about in and out-of-house lectures, rentals, the volunteer party happening tomorrow, and final survey results for the data survey (the last survey I inputted was the last of the program surveys). According to Stuart, the results from the data were not particularly shocking.
I got back to my desk and cleared out all of the old wait list files on Tessitura. I also offered to help out Naomi by stapling and making booklets for Naomi and Stuart's Cos Club Boot Camp Class. One project that I started today but didn't get to finish was alphabetizing and cataloging the CD Library. I thought that it would be really boring but it's strangely fun to see all that the Guild has in terms of legendary recordings of truly immortal singers and orchestral players!
At 5:30 Kyle, Laura, and I headed over to the opera house to attend the MetTalk panel discussion about The Merry Widow. The Merry Widow is basically a hybrid opera-musical and it was SO cool to see Renee Fleming, one of the biggest stars of opera, with Kelli O'Hara, one of the biggest stars of Broadway! New York truly is an amazing place, and I had so much fun at the MetTalk!
The Opera House
Tuesday, December 16, 2014
Week 12
Wednesday, December 3rd, 2014
Start: 9:45am
End: 5:00pm
Time: 7.25 hrs.
Today was the first typical day in a while! When I came into the office, Jane wasn't there because her recital is tomorrow. Even last week she was restraining from talking to keep her vocal chords as undamaged as possible before her recital. Thank goodness I don't have to do that as a clarinetist! Nonetheless, I'm very excited to watch Jane's recital tomorrow, I'm sure it will be amazing.
Anyway, I came into the office and was assigned to finish up the DVD's from last week. Unfortunately, they were done last week, but the lecturer decided that he wanted more videos so that meant that I had to make new DVD's. Since the rendering and reformatting of the videos took a while, I had to sit at my desk with not much to do but wait for them to finish rendering but once that was over, Stuart checked all of the DVD's again and was happy with the end result.
I headed to a social media meeting at 1pm and it was honestly the usual. We talked about what we were planning on posting this week and we're trying to get some series started for 2015-- our ideas were Opera After Dark, Opera Haikus, and Met Guild History Fun Facts.
There was no formal Community Engagement Meeting afterwards, but a few of us did meet in the Quad (a small cubicle area in the back of the office) for a pow wow meeting for volunteer party next week. It was short, sweet, and very efficient. Sadly I won't be able to go to the volunteer party since it's on a Thursday but oh well, I'm sure that it'll go along very well!
After the meeting I had a short break then I got to go on a backstage tour! My tour guide's name was Lois and she was really nice. The tour itself was amazing and I learned a lot about the opera house! I'm really thankful for all of the opportunities I have here at this internship! And fun fact: at the end of the tour, Lois told us that it was a symbol of good luck to find a bent nail on the floor of the Met Carpentry room, and I found one and got to keep it!
Start: 9:45am
End: 5:00pm
Time: 7.25 hrs.
Today was the first typical day in a while! When I came into the office, Jane wasn't there because her recital is tomorrow. Even last week she was restraining from talking to keep her vocal chords as undamaged as possible before her recital. Thank goodness I don't have to do that as a clarinetist! Nonetheless, I'm very excited to watch Jane's recital tomorrow, I'm sure it will be amazing.
Anyway, I came into the office and was assigned to finish up the DVD's from last week. Unfortunately, they were done last week, but the lecturer decided that he wanted more videos so that meant that I had to make new DVD's. Since the rendering and reformatting of the videos took a while, I had to sit at my desk with not much to do but wait for them to finish rendering but once that was over, Stuart checked all of the DVD's again and was happy with the end result.
I headed to a social media meeting at 1pm and it was honestly the usual. We talked about what we were planning on posting this week and we're trying to get some series started for 2015-- our ideas were Opera After Dark, Opera Haikus, and Met Guild History Fun Facts.
There was no formal Community Engagement Meeting afterwards, but a few of us did meet in the Quad (a small cubicle area in the back of the office) for a pow wow meeting for volunteer party next week. It was short, sweet, and very efficient. Sadly I won't be able to go to the volunteer party since it's on a Thursday but oh well, I'm sure that it'll go along very well!
After the meeting I had a short break then I got to go on a backstage tour! My tour guide's name was Lois and she was really nice. The tour itself was amazing and I learned a lot about the opera house! I'm really thankful for all of the opportunities I have here at this internship! And fun fact: at the end of the tour, Lois told us that it was a symbol of good luck to find a bent nail on the floor of the Met Carpentry room, and I found one and got to keep it!
Wednesday, December 3, 2014
Week 10
Wednesday, November 19th, 2014
Start: 9:45am
End: 5:00pm
Total: 7.25 hrs
Today was overall a pretty slow day in the office, but I've been pretty busy this week so it was nice to have a break. First I got to talk to Jane about her upcoming recital on December 4th, I promised her that I'd be there and I;m very excited to see it! After finishing some social media posts, I was assigned a new task to create DVD's for an upcoming lecture which is talking about the following composers: Puccini, Verdi, Strauss, and Massenet. To be honest, I'm not too sure what the lecture is about but I'm near positive that it's a series so maybe I'll be able to watch one of them! Puccini is the composer of my favorite opera, La Bohรจme, so I found listening to the Puccini excerpts especially nice. Kyle had already finished the Verdi one so I didn't need to worry about that. The Strauss and the Massenet excerpts were really cool to listen to, especially the Strauss ones since they were from his opera Salome. The arias sung in that opera are honestly just downright creepy, so it was really cool to feel so uneasy while listening to all of the excerpts. This did take a while, but that was the only assignment I had today.
Start: 9:45am
End: 5:00pm
Total: 7.25 hrs
Today was overall a pretty slow day in the office, but I've been pretty busy this week so it was nice to have a break. First I got to talk to Jane about her upcoming recital on December 4th, I promised her that I'd be there and I;m very excited to see it! After finishing some social media posts, I was assigned a new task to create DVD's for an upcoming lecture which is talking about the following composers: Puccini, Verdi, Strauss, and Massenet. To be honest, I'm not too sure what the lecture is about but I'm near positive that it's a series so maybe I'll be able to watch one of them! Puccini is the composer of my favorite opera, La Bohรจme, so I found listening to the Puccini excerpts especially nice. Kyle had already finished the Verdi one so I didn't need to worry about that. The Strauss and the Massenet excerpts were really cool to listen to, especially the Strauss ones since they were from his opera Salome. The arias sung in that opera are honestly just downright creepy, so it was really cool to feel so uneasy while listening to all of the excerpts. This did take a while, but that was the only assignment I had today.
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