OK, now that I’ve played for 5+ hours of auditions, I have West Side Story music permanently embedded in my brain. (This condition, of course, will last through the end of the show – and probably a bit longer than that – in late April. Sigh.) Can’t you hear it? Snap, snap, snap, snap… Anyway. [...]
We had the first of two holiday concerts this evening. It went well enough – it’s always hard to play in the mall with all the noise and echoes. We have another concert next week in one of the school auditoriums, so that should be better. Since Denis brought Carrie to this concert (it’s much [...]
I went to a pre-production meeting for this years’ musical this afternoon. We’re doing West Side Story. I probably ought to Netflix it and watch it again, since the last time I saw it I was in it. (And that was…mumblesixteenmumble…years ago.) Actually, I have a funny story about that. I was cast in the [...]
I think I need to bring my horn to the repair shop. The trigger that switches from the F horn to the B flat horn isn’t working properly. I thought it was just that I hadn’t oiled the valve recently enough (though I knew I had) but my band director thinks it’s actually something mechanical [...]
The show went really well this weekend. I’m proud of all the kids, and will miss all the seniors graduating this year. I can’t wait to find out what show they’re doing next year (and I hope they invite me back!) The producer gave all the adults that worked on the show a thank you [...]
You know someone must have touched many, many lives when an entire auditorium goes completely silent at the announcement of his death. My piano teacher from many years ago, who also worked on the musicals I was in during high school, passed away two days ago. He had moved across the country a few years [...]
For Christmas, Santa gave Carrie Philadelphia Chickens and Dog Train. These are both excellent children’s albums (with great lyric books) by Sandra Boynton. My absolute favorite songs off the two albums are “I Need a Nap”, “Fifteen Animals”, “Belly Button”, and “Snuggle Puppy”. But there are so many others that are just so fantastic, it’s [...]
Jenny has passed me a musical baton. I answer these questions and pass them on… Total volume of music files on my computer: 5.13 GB The last CD I bought was: The “Spamalot!” soundtrack. Song playing right now: I wasn’t actually listening to music, but I just put my entire iTunes library on shuffle and [...]
Carolyn’s music library is pretty big already – she has three Baby Einstein CDs, a Veggie Tales CD, two lullaby CDs given to her by the cast of Anything Goes, and two more lullaby CDs from my parents. One of the CDs from my parents, The Planet Sleeps is absolutely amazing. We play it every [...]
Anything Goes is done! It was fantastic! I skipped out on the cast party though – I think I’m getting too old to stay out that late… Besides, the fewer adults there, the happier the kids will be, I’m sure! I’m so touched by all the little gifties I got from the directors and the [...]