::completeing this post which I left off yesterday.. lotsa stuff happening for band as we draw near to the big day.. Monday had PE in the afternoon.. had a throbbing pain in the back of my head on my 4th round.. really did push myself to finish each lap in 2 min, didn't feel as exhausted after 4 laps, but the pain was getting worse.. didn't wanna risk it seeing how my neighbour just went so suddenly 2 years back..
had full band prac afterwards.. worked on more details as a band.. then Tuesday was our 1st rehearsal at SCH.. yea, its Labour Day a public holiday, but we still had to come back.. didn't have breakfast before I came.. had only a 1hr 15min time slot to rehearse in the hall.. the acoustics there obviously much better than our band room.. still only able to marginally hear myself in the recordings for the adante part though.. think its the recording though, the percussion were mighty loud for safari on stage, but the recording they didn't sound as loud..
didn't feel well when we returned from SCH.. felt like throwing up.. Shi Chie asked if I was alright, partly cos he was one of the few guys sitting around at that point in time.. got my dad to fetch me back.. went back to rest, but felt slightly worse when I woke up at 10+.. went back to sleep again and by morning was feeling better already..

Thursday was our lunchtime performance during common lunch break.. asked Yia Chin to help me take some pics of our performance.. the 17-85IS + 400D combo produces some very nice results..


the full band..
17mm isn't wide enough to capture everybody though.. hahaa.. see if you can spot me in the pic.. played our 2 SYF piece.. the glass ceiling of the atrium doesn't project the sound that well, very boomy.. I'm sure lotsa ppl in the canteen had a slight shock when we played Safari.. weird noises from the band, elephant calls, pedal note roars.. I can imagine some ppl going "wth are they playing, so noisy.. sounds like.. (add extra negative remarks from music unappreciative ppl ad. lib.)"


the Clarinet Section with the French Horns behind..
Sinfonia was quite ok.. though there was some very obvious not together parts like the cymbal crash and a saxophone coming in early for the ending.. thats not gonna leave such a good impression on the school population.. but generally, I think we improved tremendously over our last lunchtime performance..


Mr Tan in action..
Mr Quek came to talk to us after we ended our performance.. great to know that we have the support of our principal behind us.. but still feel the general school population isn't that supportive.. of cos for sports CCAs they would be more than happy to go down and support for their finals or something.. cheer and have a fun time.. but for performing arts, its a different kind of support..

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