Sunday, October 26, 2003
Singing ACAPPELLA!!!!
Well, it's sunday morning and I've survived TWO acapella concerts and i'm trying to get back down to work now. Still on a high from last night tho'..
THURSDAY NIGHT.
my voice was TOTALLy gone. THe tenors were TOTALLY OFF.. so were the rest of us actually. It was so bad, i was getting real jittery. Even 5 minutes before the start of the jazz band, we were trying to squeeze in last minute pract in a corridor.. Andrew backed into a light switch and threw us into utter darkness and confusion as we hit the opening notes for Mo MO Ai Ni. " are we THAT bad?," Kat wondered .Then Ken discovered the offending lightswitch and cuffed Andrew...right into Wei. The 4 guys got into a scuffle while the gals stood utterly bemused out of harm's way. After a mintue of so, we finally got into the song. Everytime one of the tenors went off, the other would smack the guilty oneand it would end in a shoving match or a giggling match. One base kept singing soprano.
5 minutes before the performance. Wei was screaming at Andrew something about him being a fat ass coz the belt he borrowed wouldn't fit.. and something about someone telling him to wear cargo pants for a concert.. oh that was real funnie. everyone showed up in a suit and him in cargo pants. I decided to wear a hat in case we malued ourselves too badly, then at least i had an outlet to hide my face. And the tenors ... wait. a minute. Where were they? We craned our necks. Van and Jess were wringing their hands, I was worrying about our still less than perfect pitch, the bases and Kat were singing with the choir and we had to make a stage appearence in less than 5 minutes... And the tenors had gone whoop whoop.
FInally they made an appearance... their arms loaded with icecream and sandwiches???!!!!
I was totally tensed thru out mo mo ai ni. We hit the opening chords ok. And WE MADE it through the song without a hitch!!! OMG. we even pulled off the transition with aplomp. something we've never done b4!!! WOW. Coca cola was a hit too, the audience chuckled as we finished with a grand.. Pissssssssssss... I was jumping with joy, exchanging handslaps with the tenors and punches with the basses and hugs with the gals. We did it!!!! OMG. I just love the feeling when you pull off a concert !
The NOrth in Concert
HH and I went to watch the Idea of North at her church. We scooted in early to get front row seats. To me utmost delight, during the first song, the tenor Nic came to shake hands with us. I narrowly missed having my name used in a song. Thank god he didn't do it , coz he needed a name that ended with "een" and i was one of the 3 gals in the front who had a name that ended with that. So he ended up serenading a red race caucasian gal next to HH. The performance was pure magic. This group won teh harmony sweepstakes in US in 2003.. In league with rockapella and the likes. Their harmony was just sooo tight you couldn't rip it apart at all!!!! HH actually Won a Cd in a draw.. yez. the gal next to her drew HH's name. It was so funny. But hell, she got the NOrth's CD.. :) we were bouncing around in delight. Wow!!!! Wat a lucky night! The north ended with a song where they got the audience to harmonise with them. Yez, we were turned into a choir. and boy we sounded good!!! THe audience roared for more at the end of the performance and we gave them TWO encores!!!! . Oh what a night!!!!
Well, it's sunday morning and I've survived TWO acapella concerts and i'm trying to get back down to work now. Still on a high from last night tho'..
THURSDAY NIGHT.
my voice was TOTALLy gone. THe tenors were TOTALLY OFF.. so were the rest of us actually. It was so bad, i was getting real jittery. Even 5 minutes before the start of the jazz band, we were trying to squeeze in last minute pract in a corridor.. Andrew backed into a light switch and threw us into utter darkness and confusion as we hit the opening notes for Mo MO Ai Ni. " are we THAT bad?," Kat wondered .Then Ken discovered the offending lightswitch and cuffed Andrew...right into Wei. The 4 guys got into a scuffle while the gals stood utterly bemused out of harm's way. After a mintue of so, we finally got into the song. Everytime one of the tenors went off, the other would smack the guilty oneand it would end in a shoving match or a giggling match. One base kept singing soprano.
5 minutes before the performance. Wei was screaming at Andrew something about him being a fat ass coz the belt he borrowed wouldn't fit.. and something about someone telling him to wear cargo pants for a concert.. oh that was real funnie. everyone showed up in a suit and him in cargo pants. I decided to wear a hat in case we malued ourselves too badly, then at least i had an outlet to hide my face. And the tenors ... wait. a minute. Where were they? We craned our necks. Van and Jess were wringing their hands, I was worrying about our still less than perfect pitch, the bases and Kat were singing with the choir and we had to make a stage appearence in less than 5 minutes... And the tenors had gone whoop whoop.
FInally they made an appearance... their arms loaded with icecream and sandwiches???!!!!
I was totally tensed thru out mo mo ai ni. We hit the opening chords ok. And WE MADE it through the song without a hitch!!! OMG. we even pulled off the transition with aplomp. something we've never done b4!!! WOW. Coca cola was a hit too, the audience chuckled as we finished with a grand.. Pissssssssssss... I was jumping with joy, exchanging handslaps with the tenors and punches with the basses and hugs with the gals. We did it!!!! OMG. I just love the feeling when you pull off a concert !
The NOrth in Concert
HH and I went to watch the Idea of North at her church. We scooted in early to get front row seats. To me utmost delight, during the first song, the tenor Nic came to shake hands with us. I narrowly missed having my name used in a song. Thank god he didn't do it , coz he needed a name that ended with "een" and i was one of the 3 gals in the front who had a name that ended with that. So he ended up serenading a red race caucasian gal next to HH. The performance was pure magic. This group won teh harmony sweepstakes in US in 2003.. In league with rockapella and the likes. Their harmony was just sooo tight you couldn't rip it apart at all!!!! HH actually Won a Cd in a draw.. yez. the gal next to her drew HH's name. It was so funny. But hell, she got the NOrth's CD.. :) we were bouncing around in delight. Wow!!!! Wat a lucky night! The north ended with a song where they got the audience to harmonise with them. Yez, we were turned into a choir. and boy we sounded good!!! THe audience roared for more at the end of the performance and we gave them TWO encores!!!! . Oh what a night!!!!
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