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Adventures with an unreliable narrator.
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Apr 11 03: hack
War Requiem@Carnegie: mixed. General performance was fabulous, and if the Times comes through on that review I’ll link to it here. Personal performance, not so good. Due to the sudden intervention of a pesky phlegm blob, I produced a Horrible Noise early in the second movement (Dies Irae)—it was three octaves higher than any noise I ever made, and loud loud loud, and somehow polyphonic. I screeched an entire chord at once, and second-guessed myself for the remainder of the show. What if it happened again? Am I focussed enough? How is my technique? Wait, I have to pay attention to the conductor. What’s the next note?
Five days ago, I was ready to fearlessly take on that impossible, beautiful piece. Last night, I was timid, and tentative, and couldn’t get back into the zone. Phooey. But like I said, amazing show. The soloists were spectacular.
more cultural adventure
I really really really want to go see Kaiju Big Battel at the Roseland on the night we come back from England. And the opening act is the Trachtenberg Family Slideshow Players! How cool is that? I may just buy myself a ticket tomorrow, skeptical friends and premonitions of severe jetlag be damned.I mean, if anything is going to keep me up until a reasonable bedtime, this has gotta be it.