Week 13

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!