Dear lord, last night's concert was a total disaster. On the second tune, a ballad called More Love, the intro in 3/4 was too fast, the 5/4 bar was interrupted by the singer coming in too early, and somehow, Lord I don't know how, the time got all switched around to like a 6/8 thing. It never recovered. Oh man, it was a slow motion train-wreck for the whole tune. Nothing like that has ever happened to me, especially not in a public performance. Man, it was ugly!
Today I woke up nice and late, signed out a practice room, had lunch with a friend, and went to composition forum. Today our guest composer Fabio Nieder presented Stockhausen's Mantra. Well, he kind of just talked about music and music history and development in general, but he kind of tied it in at the very end. He seems like a super smart guy, nearly perfect pitch memory of so many great compositions, and really values tradition and learning from the past. Tomorrow I have a lesson with him at noon, and I am excited/anxious to see what he has to say about my mostly post-minimalist music, since he seems to be of the more post-war European atonality school. I believe they call it the Darmstraat school.
Anyway, other than that, I went souvenir shopping with a friend when I was supposed to be writing, so I have nothing to show for today as far as work on my duet is concerned. I did get some stuff for a few people, and a shirt for my sister, and some Christmas ornaments.
And now, at 8:12pm, I am yawning, listening to house music on my beats, waiting for something fun to happen. I have been blown off, well more politely turned down, by several people with offers to hang out/go out/etc. I know this is one of the last days in Amsterdam, but it seems like that doesn't concern most people as much as it concerns me. I mean, some of them had genuine excuses, such as a final that doesn’t start till 8, being sick, busy. I guess those are excuses not to party, I mean, I have never used any excuse to not hang out myself, haha. But a friend is supposed to come down and hang out in a bit. I don't know exactly what we're gonna do. She doesn't wanna go out, kuz she is lame/tired/too cold. But I am out of drinks and southpark episodes, haha. Oh well, I guess we'll find something to do. Heck, I can't even make food! I am so out of food! But I don't want to buy more kuz some of it will undoubtedly go to waste by the time I leave in less than a week. Guess I'll just have to live off of soup till then. Not that it's a particularly bad thing, since it is so darned cold and windy.
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