Carnegie Hall
sorry this is so long, you don't have to read it...haha, it's more so i can remember everything later!
was amaaaaaaaaaazing :) truly, absolutely unbelievable
i'll start from the beginning...once upon a time...
tuesday.
we left at 7 am and drove there by bus. bus ride was fun, we watched the mighty ducks and the incredibles, yay college kids. we got to new jersey at 10ish and stayed the night in really nice suites for practice the next day.
wednesday.
got up early, ate, went to highschool and practiced. sounds a lot like a drumline competition actually :) but luckily for us we just used their big equipment and brought the small stuff, that was fun. got back on the buses and drove to new york that night. one of the buses broke so we had to have 3 buses worth of people on 2 but it wasn't too bad. Rusty and I had to have Audrey sit with us too which was tight but we didn't mind :D first view of new york was SPECTACULAR! absolutely beautiful! got to the hotel, which was very neat and modern :) very new york-esque and right when we got to our room we heard a knock. got the door and my parents had sent me a cheese/fruit platter thing with a basket of bread which was really neat looking and fancy with a little note that was really cute saying they were "proud of me, loved me, etc etc" and i loved it, they are way too cute! after all of this i went to dinner with rusty, brad, jay, aaron, mrs. lloyd(my orchestra maestro) jon, sharon, daniel, and some others. we had the best italian food of our lives! and the atmosphere/company was really fantastic as well. needless to say that was a fun night!
the room :)
the platter thing
hanging in our hotel lobby!
thursday.
woke up early with Molly and Jim and walked around the city taking pictures and eating food from a street vendor :) it was really cold so we went and bought some gloves. Met up with Gabbi and headed to central park for a little while. took some more pictures of anything we possibly could, and then had to head back to the hotel because we had to go practice at carnegie and set things up. stepping onto the stage at carnegie is on of the images that i will never forget. that place is beautiful, and even more so FROM the stage(a view i never thought that i would see). of course they told us we weren't allowed to take pictures, and of course i took some illegally from inside my mallet bag/underneath a towel :) they only really got the ceiling though, dangit. The practice went pretty well EXCEPT for the fact that my xylophone HAD WRONG NOTES ON IT! you'd think, being carnegie hall and all, that when you rent instruments from them that they'd be good ones, but no...no that is a lie. the lowest G, G sharp, A and A sharp on the xylophone WERE WRONG!!!! and i had an entire section of a song on that octave and those notes (of course) and i couldn't just change the octave because hey, the COMPOSER WAS THERE! accccccck! so i had to announce to my conductor and the composer(Karel Husa) that my notes were wrong and ask to move it up the octave which was kind of funny because i played a chromatic scale including the wrong notes and everyone's look of disgust was pretty funny :) besides that, all was well! anywhoodles...the concert.
concert.
the orchestra concert went really well. except. we were playing two songs, one of which is a ridiculously long and difficult cello concerto also by karel husa. and during that song, our cello soloist broke a string. so, mrs. lloyd CUT OFF! it was terrifying...we had to wait for him to go backstage and fix the string. eek. besides that, all was well and we played really well :)
the wind ensemble concert also went really well and everyone reacted well to the songs :) i had a ton of fun. my grandma and my great aunt agnes also really enjoyed seeing me running around in the back.
the rest of the night was spent going to the reception and then watching zoolander with Rusty.
central synagogue
where we sat and ate breakfast
random
apple store
i'm inside the glass elevator looking up
glass elevator/stairs :)
first glance of central park!
me gabbi and molly climbed the icy slope :)
pretty
swans!
nice view
random horseman
self-explanatory
neat
best sign in new york
illegal picture number one
times square
working t-rex in toys r us
Capt. Jack made of legos
lego king kong
rusty and darth
aww molly in times square
Friday.
our free day! got up early, got onto the subway, and went to the Nordoff-Robbins music therapy center. Paul Nordoff and Clive Robbins are two of the biggest names in music therapy and it was amazing to get to go to their center. Paul is no longer alive, but we spent the morning with Clive who is well into his 80's and still going :) then we had lunch with them and Clive told me that i was "One colorful chick" with his British accent and it made my life! :) after that i went back to the hotel and waited for my cousin Josh to come and pick me up! I haven't seen Josh since i was like 7 and he is 35 now so i was really excited to see him! He got there and we walked to go get him some food and OH MY GOODNESS, we hit it off! I figured that we would have a good time and all, but that we would just hang out for an hour or so...oh no, we ended up hanging out for quite a few hours! we just couldn't stop talking about everything and he had to go to a voiceover, so he asked me to come with him. so we got on the subway and went to this voiceover thing, talking the whole way there and then the whole way back. then when we got back we walked to the Apple store, which is really neat and made of glass! there is a glass elevator...super neat. even cooler...he BOUGHT me an ipod shuffle!!! like he was pretending he was going to get one, and asked my opinion on the color, and then he gave it to me...it was so nice, unecessary of course, but so nice of him. i mean. wow. then we walked back to my hotel and talked more in the lobby and he met Rusty :) and then he left and I left again with Rusty and Brad and Erin and such. we ate some pizza, some really good pizza actually, and then went to times square!!! fun times there walking around and seeing the huge toys r us and the virgin store, etc. after that we headed to the harbor to see the statue of liberty, from a distance but still pretty, and then we went back to the hotel. it was super late, so we went to sleep.
all in all, my new york experience was INCREDIBLE! seriously i had such a good time :) and i enjoyed talking with josh JUST as much as playing at Carnegie so that was really nice.
was amaaaaaaaaaazing :) truly, absolutely unbelievable
i'll start from the beginning...once upon a time...
tuesday.
we left at 7 am and drove there by bus. bus ride was fun, we watched the mighty ducks and the incredibles, yay college kids. we got to new jersey at 10ish and stayed the night in really nice suites for practice the next day.
wednesday.
got up early, ate, went to highschool and practiced. sounds a lot like a drumline competition actually :) but luckily for us we just used their big equipment and brought the small stuff, that was fun. got back on the buses and drove to new york that night. one of the buses broke so we had to have 3 buses worth of people on 2 but it wasn't too bad. Rusty and I had to have Audrey sit with us too which was tight but we didn't mind :D first view of new york was SPECTACULAR! absolutely beautiful! got to the hotel, which was very neat and modern :) very new york-esque and right when we got to our room we heard a knock. got the door and my parents had sent me a cheese/fruit platter thing with a basket of bread which was really neat looking and fancy with a little note that was really cute saying they were "proud of me, loved me, etc etc" and i loved it, they are way too cute! after all of this i went to dinner with rusty, brad, jay, aaron, mrs. lloyd(my orchestra maestro) jon, sharon, daniel, and some others. we had the best italian food of our lives! and the atmosphere/company was really fantastic as well. needless to say that was a fun night!
the room :)
the platter thing
hanging in our hotel lobby!
thursday.
woke up early with Molly and Jim and walked around the city taking pictures and eating food from a street vendor :) it was really cold so we went and bought some gloves. Met up with Gabbi and headed to central park for a little while. took some more pictures of anything we possibly could, and then had to head back to the hotel because we had to go practice at carnegie and set things up. stepping onto the stage at carnegie is on of the images that i will never forget. that place is beautiful, and even more so FROM the stage(a view i never thought that i would see). of course they told us we weren't allowed to take pictures, and of course i took some illegally from inside my mallet bag/underneath a towel :) they only really got the ceiling though, dangit. The practice went pretty well EXCEPT for the fact that my xylophone HAD WRONG NOTES ON IT! you'd think, being carnegie hall and all, that when you rent instruments from them that they'd be good ones, but no...no that is a lie. the lowest G, G sharp, A and A sharp on the xylophone WERE WRONG!!!! and i had an entire section of a song on that octave and those notes (of course) and i couldn't just change the octave because hey, the COMPOSER WAS THERE! accccccck! so i had to announce to my conductor and the composer(Karel Husa) that my notes were wrong and ask to move it up the octave which was kind of funny because i played a chromatic scale including the wrong notes and everyone's look of disgust was pretty funny :) besides that, all was well! anywhoodles...the concert.
concert.
the orchestra concert went really well. except. we were playing two songs, one of which is a ridiculously long and difficult cello concerto also by karel husa. and during that song, our cello soloist broke a string. so, mrs. lloyd CUT OFF! it was terrifying...we had to wait for him to go backstage and fix the string. eek. besides that, all was well and we played really well :)
the wind ensemble concert also went really well and everyone reacted well to the songs :) i had a ton of fun. my grandma and my great aunt agnes also really enjoyed seeing me running around in the back.
the rest of the night was spent going to the reception and then watching zoolander with Rusty.
central synagogue
where we sat and ate breakfast
random
apple store
i'm inside the glass elevator looking up
glass elevator/stairs :)
first glance of central park!
me gabbi and molly climbed the icy slope :)
pretty
swans!
nice view
random horseman
self-explanatory
neat
best sign in new york
illegal picture number one
times square
working t-rex in toys r us
Capt. Jack made of legos
lego king kong
rusty and darth
aww molly in times square
Friday.
our free day! got up early, got onto the subway, and went to the Nordoff-Robbins music therapy center. Paul Nordoff and Clive Robbins are two of the biggest names in music therapy and it was amazing to get to go to their center. Paul is no longer alive, but we spent the morning with Clive who is well into his 80's and still going :) then we had lunch with them and Clive told me that i was "One colorful chick" with his British accent and it made my life! :) after that i went back to the hotel and waited for my cousin Josh to come and pick me up! I haven't seen Josh since i was like 7 and he is 35 now so i was really excited to see him! He got there and we walked to go get him some food and OH MY GOODNESS, we hit it off! I figured that we would have a good time and all, but that we would just hang out for an hour or so...oh no, we ended up hanging out for quite a few hours! we just couldn't stop talking about everything and he had to go to a voiceover, so he asked me to come with him. so we got on the subway and went to this voiceover thing, talking the whole way there and then the whole way back. then when we got back we walked to the Apple store, which is really neat and made of glass! there is a glass elevator...super neat. even cooler...he BOUGHT me an ipod shuffle!!! like he was pretending he was going to get one, and asked my opinion on the color, and then he gave it to me...it was so nice, unecessary of course, but so nice of him. i mean. wow. then we walked back to my hotel and talked more in the lobby and he met Rusty :) and then he left and I left again with Rusty and Brad and Erin and such. we ate some pizza, some really good pizza actually, and then went to times square!!! fun times there walking around and seeing the huge toys r us and the virgin store, etc. after that we headed to the harbor to see the statue of liberty, from a distance but still pretty, and then we went back to the hotel. it was super late, so we went to sleep.
all in all, my new york experience was INCREDIBLE! seriously i had such a good time :) and i enjoyed talking with josh JUST as much as playing at Carnegie so that was really nice.