Flutes can't count
Feb. 21st, 2004 05:16 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
xaaraAnd not only can't the flute section count, it also hates me for pointing that fact out to Maestro, our conductor. I couldn't help it - I mean, how many times can they screw up the same passage from Romeo & Juliet before they finally get it? I'm sitting back there playing the timpani for a few measures and then counting over a hundred measures to where I next come in (the inconsiderate person who printed the copies we have didn't think it necessary to add cues), but the flutes get lost when they have to count more than four or eight measures. Come on girls, repeat after me, it's one two three four, two two three four, three two three four... How hard could it possibly be? [endrant]
I read about halfway through Steinbeck's The Pearl today during lunch break, and I like it so far. My drum teacher saw me reading it and asked me if I had read Of Mice and Men. I told him I had and he said he'd hated the ending when he'd first read it. I agreed - it was traumatizing. The first time I read all the way through the book, I cried at the end because it shocked me so much. I was sitting in math class at the time, and I had to make a rather undignified exit to the bathroom to conceal the fact that I was in tears over a book I wasn't supposed to be reading at the moment.
In non-orchestra-related (read: real) life, I just started working on a short fantasy/scifi story set in a universe I invented a while back for another short piece. (So maybe this isn't really real life after all.) I haven't decided on a working title yet - so far, it's called "Fantasy Thing 2" on my computer. I don't even know if I like the premise yet. Everyone in the story lives on Earth, but it's an Earth completely covered by one gigantic interconnected society. Could prove interesting.
That's a perfect sentence to describe life - "could prove interesting."
I read about halfway through Steinbeck's The Pearl today during lunch break, and I like it so far. My drum teacher saw me reading it and asked me if I had read Of Mice and Men. I told him I had and he said he'd hated the ending when he'd first read it. I agreed - it was traumatizing. The first time I read all the way through the book, I cried at the end because it shocked me so much. I was sitting in math class at the time, and I had to make a rather undignified exit to the bathroom to conceal the fact that I was in tears over a book I wasn't supposed to be reading at the moment.
In non-orchestra-related (read: real) life, I just started working on a short fantasy/scifi story set in a universe I invented a while back for another short piece. (So maybe this isn't really real life after all.) I haven't decided on a working title yet - so far, it's called "Fantasy Thing 2" on my computer. I don't even know if I like the premise yet. Everyone in the story lives on Earth, but it's an Earth completely covered by one gigantic interconnected society. Could prove interesting.
That's a perfect sentence to describe life - "could prove interesting."
