::another tiring 2 days of band.. suppose to be a long weekend with our off-in-lieu holiday on friday.. but had to come back for band practice.. had our workshop with Dr Stotter, used An American Elegy and Songs of Sailor and Sea to work on.. worked on dynamics, phrasing, expression etc on American Elegy.. sounded as good if not better than for AE.. like cresendoes have to start softer, a expontenial cresendo instead of a gradual one for more impact.. actually knew some of these since sec sch, of course, what use is this info to a person compared to a band..
had our lunch, the another practice with YPSB.. can't remember anything from that practice, only that it ended quite late.. then had a commitee meeting with Mr Neo.. oh yea, don't think I mentioned this, but coincidentally, Mr Neo who recently joined the school, was also a Montfortian.. knew him in sec 1 when he came back to help the band for M5, he was the BM for the 96 batch I think.. who knew 5 years later we'll meet again..
then sat had the percussion concert.. had practice from 9 to 6.. ya I know, it was a extremely long day.. at least we went out to have our lunch and dinner together..


Gloria and Kok Wey, the MCs for the night..
starting to get a hold on how to cover events already.. the 30D had only half batt left so was kinda worried if it were to run out of batt halfway.. luckily it managed to survive to the very end of everything, just nice ran out of batt when I wanted to do a review of all the pics..


started off with a marimba solo by Mr Pan, the instructor for the percussion.. then some duets and a combined piece where everybody played entitled Consortium.. quite an appropriate title since it's a combined percussion section from 4 schools..


there was also a snare drum quartet by the 4 guest players.. quite fun to watch.. a mixture of percussion and acting.. somewhat like what Canadian Brass did..
also had a percussion and flute duet..





its tango for flute and percussion, so can feel the salsa/dance style in it.. also had a suprise piece, the super mario theme song on the marimba..
thats about the whole concert, not exactly the best summary/review of it.. then they wanted to take some group shots after the audience left.. had the 50mm 1.8 on and the kit lens was still in the band room.. nice, can't even frame half of the group in.. luckily I brought my S80, another incident where wide-angle saves the day..
reached back home quite late, had a committee meeting debrief till 10.. each person had to make some comments on today.. some admin stuff were brought up, then came to my turn.. brought up the issue of lighting, which turned out to be quite a valid point.. think only me and Mr Neo noticed the lighting was quite bad, like there wasn't much light on the performers..

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