Christmas Concert '08

So on December 4th (yesterday) and December 5th (today) there was the Christmas concert at LAT...the one GIO didn't go to.
Last night was pretty hilarious.
At first, when we got on stage, there were probably two rows of old ladies.
Us trumpets thought that we didn't sell that many tickets that they had to get the Nuns to come in so we can perform
Then outta no where, a huge crowed came in and we found out they hadn't opened the door yet.
Haha oops :)

Thursday, December 4th, 2008
So anyways, then Instant Christmas Concert was pretty lame. Because the trumpets had their little solo for the 1st two bars, we were the only ones playing... hence "solo". But of course, the first note had to be the high C. It was HORRIBLE! Some people got it and others played the G...it kinda sounded good but we knew it was wrong. For Winter Fantasy, the beginning was nicely done. On Thursday night, we didn't play so well...although when we were done, my lips were surprisingly not tired and Amaral and i had practised A LOT before....Then at the part where we were suppose to echo the flutes & clarinets, one trumpet [[no names to be mentioned]] played WITH the flutes & clarients. I don't think anyone of the audience watched noticed...so that's good. Oh, and at the end when it changes from cuttime to four four time the flutes DID NOT watch and they were speeding. Wait, maybe not the flutes...it was either them or percussion. Can't quite remember. But I heard that the Jazz band was even badder..not bad but like a lot of things went wrong. No one knew what was happening and half the sax's were missing =/ apparently Alyssa gave her sax to Jenna who went to the basement with Asya and when Alyssa came back to try and find Jenna, she couldn't find them and so Alyssa didn't get to play and Jenna and Asya didn't play and apparently Sarah D (Barrie sax) didn't get to play cuz her sax was broken. Then Pammie said that she sight read the 1st sax part and oh man!!!!

Friday, December 5th, 2008
I think after all that i heard about last night, tonight was really well done :) Us trumpets did raelly well. the only part we messed up yet again was that begninning for Instant. But it was like the only one. I took a look at a short clip I had on my camera and there's a part for "O Christmas Tree" where we're suppose to be playing really high and loud...but the flutes took over [[no offense]] but at the end of our pieces, Mrs. Hollington seemed really happy cuz she had the hugest smile on her face. She said that we had done raelly well comepared to last night. Which i totally agree. After I changed and i put my instrument away, i snuck into the auditorium with Sara and watched the Intermediate Jazz band. Who lemme tell you...was AMAZING! So proud of you! Especially... PAMMIEKINS, KOPKO, KATHY, && My Fellow Trumpeters who did an AMAZINGER JOB: AMARAL, ARELLANO, KASSANDRA & DIORELLA! And let me tell you, Kassandra and Diorealla did really well for their solo..like they were AMAZING...like if there was a better word for that i'd use it. But i'm so exhausted that i can't think of one.
After that the seniors played i went inside the auditorium (during intermission) and my sister and i bought a bunch of things at the bake sale...and then after that, i went back down and like pammiekins and sarakins were singing . [[videos on fB]] Let me tell you, it was pretty amazing as well. Oh i forgot to mention....when Sara and I snuck in to watch the jazz, there was a girl singing and she was sooo freaking good oh my. Actually, all the girls that sang by themselves were really good. It gave me goose bumps (sp) but ya anways... Ya so i have a couple music videos by them and then we went back upstairs in the auditorium and watched somemore. The Seniors are really good. It's kinda insane. Like they could be professionals...oh man. Then there was the HUGE sing-a-long. It was pretty amazing. Check out Pamm's video (if she puts them up) on facebook. Anyways

I'm pretty exhausted and I've got a somewhat busy weekend ahead of me.