they say when you close your eyes during Etude XXXI, you can feel your heart beating in sync with the music - that amazing feeling
WE HAVE DONE IT!
firstly i will talk about the wonderful backstage facilities at the esplanade. they provide a room with ur name written at the front door. and inside got bathroom, dressing table, lockers and chairs. pretty cool. and its like a maze in there! so many places to go! took pretty long to figure out how to get out of the stage door to meet everyone outside.
next, i will talk about the performance itself. we were feeling so so so jittery and nervous at 1920 liddat, cuz all the audience start comin in liao. somemore esplanade concert hall so damn big, so many ppl.
i tink our opening fanfare was great, and so was final fantasy X and scheherazade. armenian i abit cockup and pangsei kirby so many times. aiya must conserve energy for solo in scheherade maa xD
thought that everyone will sleep for first half(which some still did) but im glad some ppl also appreciated and enjoyed it. thank you so much.
second half ROCKED! i tink our percussion ensemble and stage band really entertained everyone. alumni band's wizard of oz was really amazing! very enchanting. of course, WE WERE BETTER xP
beauty and the beast is personally one of my favourite and i tink we managed to pull it off. oh and El Camino Real. the slow part was really beautiful, i must say. the best we ever played. hah.
didnt manage to play second encore piece but no regrets. because we did our job. and we did it well beyond expectations.
it was time for the final piece of the night. we watched the conductor as he cued us in. the most beautiful movement of the hand. the magical flick of a wrist which had the power to bring into play the most beautiful melodies in the world.
in this case, it was the college anthem. i raised my instrument.
suddenly, i felt this pride for the school well up within me. i summoned my last ounce of strength from my enervated self, to play the best i could ever do.
for njc, for the band, for the audience.
the sight of everyone in the audience standing to their feet and singing in one voice was simply beautiful, enrapturing.
the last note resounded in the hall, followed by the loudest cheers and screams you could ever imagine.
we had done it. not by perfection, but by sheer spirit and unity.
firstly i will talk about the wonderful backstage facilities at the esplanade. they provide a room with ur name written at the front door. and inside got bathroom, dressing table, lockers and chairs. pretty cool. and its like a maze in there! so many places to go! took pretty long to figure out how to get out of the stage door to meet everyone outside.
next, i will talk about the performance itself. we were feeling so so so jittery and nervous at 1920 liddat, cuz all the audience start comin in liao. somemore esplanade concert hall so damn big, so many ppl.
i tink our opening fanfare was great, and so was final fantasy X and scheherazade. armenian i abit cockup and pangsei kirby so many times. aiya must conserve energy for solo in scheherade maa xD
thought that everyone will sleep for first half(which some still did) but im glad some ppl also appreciated and enjoyed it. thank you so much.
second half ROCKED! i tink our percussion ensemble and stage band really entertained everyone. alumni band's wizard of oz was really amazing! very enchanting. of course, WE WERE BETTER xP
beauty and the beast is personally one of my favourite and i tink we managed to pull it off. oh and El Camino Real. the slow part was really beautiful, i must say. the best we ever played. hah.
didnt manage to play second encore piece but no regrets. because we did our job. and we did it well beyond expectations.
it was time for the final piece of the night. we watched the conductor as he cued us in. the most beautiful movement of the hand. the magical flick of a wrist which had the power to bring into play the most beautiful melodies in the world.
in this case, it was the college anthem. i raised my instrument.
suddenly, i felt this pride for the school well up within me. i summoned my last ounce of strength from my enervated self, to play the best i could ever do.
for njc, for the band, for the audience.
the sight of everyone in the audience standing to their feet and singing in one voice was simply beautiful, enrapturing.
the last note resounded in the hall, followed by the loudest cheers and screams you could ever imagine.
we had done it. not by perfection, but by sheer spirit and unity.
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