Musical era - fin

Megs:

I've been feeling so ridiculously sentimental that I can hardly believe it.

AYO's pretty much over now - Concert at the Town Hall on Saturday was EFFING FANTASTIC. Good turn-out in terms of audience; the Stalls and the Circle all was fairly full, which was a really nice change to the "crowds" of about 30 that came to the concerts in Tauranga and Hamilton!

This programme has been so insanely demanding: AYO camp on the last weekend of the holidays, then over the last three weeks we've had a tour every weekend somewhere in the North Island, and then there was the concert on Saturday. And in between each of these weekends I've had a test, and this week I have three. *spaaaaaz*

It's partly why I'm quitting next year; I don't think I'll be able to keep up. Also, so many friends are leaving again, that next year the orchestra's going to be very, very different. (Again!)

Anyway, here's the poster for the last programme I played in!!


I miss heaps of people in AYO already :(

In fact I had so much fun on Saturday that I was feeling pretty damn crap about leaving! But it's just not going to be the same next year. I think it's probably like how people felt about leaving high school. I've never properly missed any school I went to; but I have been in an orchestra for longer than I've attended any one institution, so maybe this is why.

I'm also going to miss the music - not just the way that the sound an orchestra makes can be so evocative and paint such vivid pictures in one's mind, but the all the work that's put into making the music up to that standard. In particular, I love listening to piano concertos, and listening to the soloist play while we rehearse is just so fun. And to me, they're one of the most beautiful things in the world when they're played by the right soloist! [You know which one :)]

Good news - we are playing again this Thursday at 8.30pm in the city again, this time in Victoria Park Market (...or somewhere in Wellesley Street), because some graffiti artists want to promote us, or use our music to promote them, or something. :D hooray! so it's not completely over just yet!

Promotional video for this event (you can see me at 0.11!)

http://vimeo.com/15815835

I now have this urge to rummage through all my old emails from AYO Weekly and reminisce.

I think I've been doing that a lot this year - missing and reminiscing and emoing about the past. I must be getting old! Time to retire!

"Don't worry, tomorrow we'll be back for more frolic and fun."

Megs:

I have realised that I haven't been sticking the word "frivolous" in my posts for like the last how many posts, sorry! This should make up for it:

frivolous frivolous frivolous frivolous frivolous frivolous frivolous

...My phone was ringing just now, and I just literally ran in a circle around the coffee table looking for the source of the buzzing and dinging. I still don't know where it is!!

Had my AYO audition this morning. I turned up at St. Peter's College on time, which is to say I was late, and was shown in by the reception lady who asked me if my last name was spelt right (it was spelt wrong/"WONG" all this year).

Anyway, the audition was sweet as, almost frivolous, I did a bit of chatting with Antun about uni and biomed/med and his friend who was also judging string performances. Ended up playing only three minutes of the Arpeggione (terribly) and two of the four excerpts they sent to us. I told him that when I go home and played it better I'd send him the recording. That works too, right? He laughed, like when I told him that med interviews were for making sure the students had qualities they want in doctors and weren't psycho (sic).

Did more backstage work at the Vector Arena today. Wore a Tibetan robe and a laminated lanyards with "PRODUCTION" written on it. Felt very important but of course I only helped with shifting stuff and showing people around. :P Do you know, if I had hung around backstage a bit longer than I did today I'd have met His Holiness in person. Tomorrow I'm sticking around backstage for real!

Ha it's funny. I was actually pretty tense at the beginning of His Holiness's speech because I hate politics and thought he'd talk a lot about Tibet vs China and somehow people would get upset, but it wasn't like that at all. I definitely felt peaceful after his speech. The columnist in the NZ herald who criticised him plus the correspondent who said His "holiness" was 'self proclaimed' don't know a thing.

And I just got back today from Gold Class at Sky City Cinemas in the city :D "Under the Mountain" was okay. Some pretty predictable events and some freaky stuff. Tim had VIP passes from his dad. But it was different this time, we didn't get waited on hand and foot. I was looking forward to the butter chicken, but still. Sweet deal :]

Could do with some bc right now though. Starviiing.