Stupid People!
Ok so this is a completely random story but if I don't write about it and tell the world I might kill someone. So last Sunday was my oboe recital. Thank GOD its over...but about a month and a half before it I didn't have an accompanist. I asked the lady who plays piano for the flutes if she could do mine, but she said she didn't have enough time and gave me this person Richard's number. My friend Greg had just gotten him for the job and said he was good. So I called him and he said he'd do it. This guy is THE creepiest guy you will ever meet in your life. He's seriously like the walking dead. Wears the same suit every time I saw him...no expression...kinda like a walking dead sorta thing...and no personality. But he could play piano I guess so I was like whatever as long as he can get through my recital. So every time we rehearsed he got a little weirder. So at my dress rehearsal he asks what time to be there for my recital so I told him anytime between quarter of 5 and 5 would probably be good since I wasn't going to get there until 4:30 to warm up. So I get there on Sunday at 4:30 and walk into Bayard and maybe like 2 minutes after I'm in there, he walks in and said something like "its really cold outside" but with his no expression I thought he was just making a comment or something. So i said something like yeah it is cold today just to reply or whatever, then he said that his hands were freezing and he had been standing outside in the rain since 4 o'clock. Number 1, I NEVER said 4 oclock...number 2...sit in your f-ing car if its cold out and you realize people aren't coming yet. Really? Stand in the rain in the cold for a half hour...COMMON SENSE. So now I may be freaking out a little on the inside cause I'm like great, my piano player is pissed and hes creepy and theres no way for me to be like...i never told you to come at 4 why did you come at 4 without the risk of him getting angry and just not doing my recital. So I just let it go but it was not a good way to start this recital at all cause I was already on the verge of tears as it was being so nervous. So that put me even closer to just having an emotional breakdown. So then I kept avoiding eye contact with him and he was just walking around like all angry or whatever then goes down and sits next to my teacher. I couldn't hear anything he said to my teacher except for "I would appreciate it if...." and then heard nothing. So I am warming up trying to listen to what they are saying...but cant, but then my accompanist stops talking to my teacher and i hear my teacher say something to him that I couldn't make out then I heard him say...and I wouldn't think to bring it up with me again or even dare to mention it to her. So now I'm like WTF is going on here. I just need to do this recital and pass it...and just have a piano player who can play but at the back of my mind right now I could just see him leaving and me not having a recital. So basically freaking out. And its all his fault anyways. So he stays so we start my recital and all I keep hearing during my first piece are wrong chords. So AS I AM PLAYING...all i am thinking about it...he's mad so he's playing badly. I am going to kill him. Could you PLEASE play the right notes. So now I'm not even thinking about the music and I'm just mad at the accompanist. So song ends. 2nd song starts...and there are 5 movements. Again...wrong notes ALL Over the place. So now I am frustrated because these songs are hard to count and when he fumbles around with notes I can't figure out what beat he's on and don't know when to come back in. So i was just guessing most of the time. I can't wait to hear it to see if I was actually right in some spots. So as I am going out for intermission, all i wanted to say to him was like...are you f-ing kidding me. You had over a month to learn this music and you are playing it THIS badly. So Amy comes into talk to me about something and I was just SO mad that my accompanist was messing me up that I just lost it. Crying during the intermission of your own recital...its a good time. Intermission ends...same thing with the 3rd song. Fumbled notes anywhere. Apparently I shot him a death glare during this song. Hahaha. I'm glad people picked up on this. Last song wasn't bad cause it was easy...but i forgot my water cup and it was a sad story! But back onto retarded accompanist story. So I give him his card at the end of it which had his check in it...so all the sudden he's nice again? And told me I had a nice recital and I should be happy with how I played? No- F you. I was just like thanks and turned away then he left. I was OVER it at that point. But anyways...had I known what my accompanist had said to my teacher I might have lost it BEFORE the recital and there wouldn't have been one. So today I learn from my friend who my teacher told...he said he would eventually tell me but hasn't yet....that my accompanist said to him "I would appreciate it if your stupid student didn't make her accompanist wait outside in the cold for a half hour before her recital" Stupid student? What!? I NEVER told him to come at 4...why would I if I was coming at 4:30. Maybe he just thinks I like to torture my accompanists? Ugh. So my teacher said back to him "I am not telling my "stupid student" anything and if you have something you need to say to her you need to tell her yourself, but I advise you to drop it and i wouldn't think to bring it up with me again or dare to mention it to her. I am SO thankful I did not hear this whole conversation or I would have been a HOT MESS. So this is just retarded. This happened in the past yet I am livid right now writing about this. Creepy old man...I'm sure you live a lonely life for a reason. GAH. Whatever. Stupid people!