Week 20

Wednesday, January 28th, 2015

Start (pt. 1): 8:00am
End (pt. 1): 11:00am
Start (pt. 2): 11:30am
End (pt. 2): 5:00pm
Time: 8.50 hrs.

     I wasn't expecting to come into internship or even go to school today because the snow storm was supposed to be really bad but nothing really happened, we only got about 4-5 inches of snow. So with that being said, after yesterday's "storm," everything is back to normal so I went to school for our last rehearsal before the sitzprobe. To be honest, the orchestra part as a whole is a lot harder than it usually is and a lot of juniors who were in pit last year are now seniors and can't be a part of pit so there are a lot of people who don't really have the hang of being in pit yet (it's a lot more different than being in an orchestra since you have to be a lot more flexible and responsive) so I was nervous about today's rehearsal but it went surprisingly well! A few singers, Ms. Crochet the choreographer, and Brianna who's one of the Musical Directors were all there so even though we did a lot of talking, we got about a third of the show done! The sitzprobe tomorrow should go pretty smoothly (hopefully!). But on a much brighter note, I think I'm really improving on bass clarinet!

     When I came into the office today I found a lovely present on my desk: two tickets to see Iolanta/Bluebeard's Castle on February 10th! Personally, this is the opera I've been most excited to see so I'm really counting down the days until I can watch it (this will have been my eighth opera!)! Before I got to work, I talked to Jane a bit, specifically about the fact that I was called to have an interview with the people from National Youth Orchestra. I didn't get this last year (even though my mom swears that I did), so it must be a good sign that I got it this year! Jane and I rehearsed a few interview questions so I feel pretty ready. It's a Skype interview scheduled for 6:30pm tonight. After working a bit on the master posts, I went to the social media meeting where we finished up plans for January then started to think about what we're gonna do for February. We're planning on doing a Black History Month theme, so I think that should work out well.

I'm almost done with all of the master posts for 2015, this is pretty hard work!