>Sarah: Get an attitude adjustment.
So here's how this Webber thing is going to go down.
Tonight, I'm going to eat shortly before rehearsal. I will show up there on time and be in my seat on time. I will sit for four hours and sing, or sit for four hours and listen to the orchestra rehearse, whichever ends up being required of me. I will sing with enthusiasm! I will sing in the required style! I will make notes in my score and pay attention when the conductor talks.
I will do this same thing again on Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday; and then I will do it in front of hundreds of people on Thursday, Friday, maybe Saturday, and Sunday. If I don't get Saturday off to go to Taiko Madness, I will not bitch; I will go perform like a mature adult.
The tickets to this show sold out two months ago. People are fucking excited about this. I'm a musician-- it's not my job to hate the music I'm playing. My performance of it has flat nothing to do with how I feel about it. It's about how the audience feels about it, and they are excited that Andrew Lloyd Webber is coming to Oklahoma to premiere this show when he could have gone to any one of a number of larger theaters, more populous states, better-paying audiences. The audience fucking loves the music of Andrew Lloyd Webber, and it would be stupid and entitled and ridiculous of me not to give it absolutely everything I have, because that is what I am here to do.
No, I didn't ask to be a part of this; yes, I'd much prefer to keep singing our Bach and Brahms and Whitacre; no, I'm not looking forward to giving that much of my life to a show I don't particularly like for a class I'd intended to be relaxing. But like it or not, I'm doing this. I don't get a say in the matter. And if I'm going to do it, I'm going to do it well, because this is an opportunity, this is something new, this is something I have never done before and probably never will get the chance to do again. That's reason enough to care.
...That said, I will never hear anything but this in "Love Changes Everything," and you cannot make me hear otherwise.
Tonight, I'm going to eat shortly before rehearsal. I will show up there on time and be in my seat on time. I will sit for four hours and sing, or sit for four hours and listen to the orchestra rehearse, whichever ends up being required of me. I will sing with enthusiasm! I will sing in the required style! I will make notes in my score and pay attention when the conductor talks.
I will do this same thing again on Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday; and then I will do it in front of hundreds of people on Thursday, Friday, maybe Saturday, and Sunday. If I don't get Saturday off to go to Taiko Madness, I will not bitch; I will go perform like a mature adult.
The tickets to this show sold out two months ago. People are fucking excited about this. I'm a musician-- it's not my job to hate the music I'm playing. My performance of it has flat nothing to do with how I feel about it. It's about how the audience feels about it, and they are excited that Andrew Lloyd Webber is coming to Oklahoma to premiere this show when he could have gone to any one of a number of larger theaters, more populous states, better-paying audiences. The audience fucking loves the music of Andrew Lloyd Webber, and it would be stupid and entitled and ridiculous of me not to give it absolutely everything I have, because that is what I am here to do.
No, I didn't ask to be a part of this; yes, I'd much prefer to keep singing our Bach and Brahms and Whitacre; no, I'm not looking forward to giving that much of my life to a show I don't particularly like for a class I'd intended to be relaxing. But like it or not, I'm doing this. I don't get a say in the matter. And if I'm going to do it, I'm going to do it well, because this is an opportunity, this is something new, this is something I have never done before and probably never will get the chance to do again. That's reason enough to care.
Click to view...That said, I will never hear anything but this in "Love Changes Everything," and you cannot make me hear otherwise.