What a weekend!!
So Friday was a useless day for class... we didn't sing at all in Chamber Choir, Mainstream was canceled, and I showed up to Midi Lab with my finished assignments. That night was our St. Matthew Passion performance at CCC.
There was a review done in the paper about the performance and it pretty much said that the venue was horrible for our performance, the choir was mediocre, and the music was to ambitious for he orchestra. I personally agree with the assessment of the choir and it was true that the orchestra was not too hot that evening. But the critic tore apart the tenor that sang the Evangelist part... I love that tenor's voice. It was evident that he was vocally exhausted when he was performing and he also has horrible asthma problems but his performance was great!! He also sings more often in the Bach than any other soloist. The bass that sang the Jesus parts was great, and so were the soprano and the alto soloists. However the other bass which I dubbed as "quasimodo" was horrendous!!! His vibrato was all over, his pitch was all over, he made up the German, and last but not least... his tone was very... very ugly.
On Saturday I worked from 11-3 in the math lab, and it was very boring. I seem to have picked the least favorite hours to work...7:30am-10am T/TH 2-3 W, 11-3 Sat. But hey it's hours and 9.83/hr ain't bad. L8r that day I hung out with my friend Ryan of whom I miss oh so very much. Which reminds me that I need to get him, my new friend Anna, and Eric together so they can be acquainted. They are all going to Multnomah Bible College in the near future so I thought it would be nice if they all met before hand.
Now for Sunday. Daylight Savings blows. Losing an hour of sleep threw me in for a loop. The performance of the bach was a lot better on Sunday in my opinion. L8r, a couple of choir folk went out for pizza... some very expensive pizza. Thankfully it was paid by Lonnie so it didn't hurt my pocket book. I got lost getting there thanks to some false directions. I was pissed but I cooled down thankfully. After that we hung out at Eric #2's place and it was loads of fun.
I have more to write about but I think I'll save that for l8r.
-Cole II
There was a review done in the paper about the performance and it pretty much said that the venue was horrible for our performance, the choir was mediocre, and the music was to ambitious for he orchestra. I personally agree with the assessment of the choir and it was true that the orchestra was not too hot that evening. But the critic tore apart the tenor that sang the Evangelist part... I love that tenor's voice. It was evident that he was vocally exhausted when he was performing and he also has horrible asthma problems but his performance was great!! He also sings more often in the Bach than any other soloist. The bass that sang the Jesus parts was great, and so were the soprano and the alto soloists. However the other bass which I dubbed as "quasimodo" was horrendous!!! His vibrato was all over, his pitch was all over, he made up the German, and last but not least... his tone was very... very ugly.
On Saturday I worked from 11-3 in the math lab, and it was very boring. I seem to have picked the least favorite hours to work...7:30am-10am T/TH 2-3 W, 11-3 Sat. But hey it's hours and 9.83/hr ain't bad. L8r that day I hung out with my friend Ryan of whom I miss oh so very much. Which reminds me that I need to get him, my new friend Anna, and Eric together so they can be acquainted. They are all going to Multnomah Bible College in the near future so I thought it would be nice if they all met before hand.
Now for Sunday. Daylight Savings blows. Losing an hour of sleep threw me in for a loop. The performance of the bach was a lot better on Sunday in my opinion. L8r, a couple of choir folk went out for pizza... some very expensive pizza. Thankfully it was paid by Lonnie so it didn't hurt my pocket book. I got lost getting there thanks to some false directions. I was pissed but I cooled down thankfully. After that we hung out at Eric #2's place and it was loads of fun.
I have more to write about but I think I'll save that for l8r.
-Cole II