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20 January 2008.

Sunday. Writing this post on Sunday, last minute work? Or perhaps it is a overview of the entire week and thus when better to do it. However, making excuses has always been a forte of mine (practice makes perfect), so you can never be sure what the reason of my writing on Sunday.


A Difficulty I faced


in my last post, i expressed my feelings over the Chinese Orchestra practices. Well apparently that was the easy part, bringing us to the difficulty. The performance.

What difficulty might there be after so many practices? The difficulty was not the playing the music, but of course the delivery. We were performing in mandarin gardens beside the pond, how original. What no one predicted however he amount of children around or the lighting problems.Children should never be allowed to a performance in the open -air. Reason being of course if they are not meddling with the instruments (during the performance, mind).They are making noise drowning out the already limited sound coming form the orchestra(due to the lack of microphones).That was strike one.


Now you would think, would you not they would check the lighting as we were performing in the evening. But the evidence so far suggests that it would be optimistic to the point of foolishness. So when it got dark it was not very possible to see the notes on the music scores. How tragic. That was strike two.

Strike three, can be blamed on the limited amount of space we were given. More then half of the music stands dropped throughout the performance, and one really faulty stand dropped at least three times.

So on the whole the performance was a complete fiasco.


Now i think only three CA entries are necessary.
So.
The end.
~A. Zameer.H~