Tonight is our holiday concert. We didn’t get to perform the Halloween concert last October due to the remnants of Hurricane Sandy taking out local power that night, so this will also be our season opener. I’m sort of nervous which is silly. It’s Christmas music for goodness sake. But of course, not just any Christmas music; some of it is challenging.
After an 11 hour work day yesterday I practiced for about 30 minutes last night. The ‘few measures’ I had planned on working on morphed into almost all of the works. And it wasn’t pretty. I know, I know. The worst dress rehearsal can sometimes mean the best concert.
Here’s hoping that holds true for me tonight.
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December 14, 2012 at 7:09 am
I’m sure the concert will be wonderful! What a great way to end a long work week.
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December 14, 2012 at 7:34 am
Deep breaths and it will all come together! I promise. It has to. It’s Christmas! xoxo
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December 14, 2012 at 8:26 am
I’m smiling happily just thinking of your concert, Dawn–and seeing you there in your Santa cap, too! It will be a lovely evening, and all your blog readers will be with you in spirit–and looking forward to hearing all about it.
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December 14, 2012 at 8:26 am
When you play with your heart the music is always beautiful
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December 14, 2012 at 12:19 pm
Good luck, but most importantly, have a great time!
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December 14, 2012 at 12:34 pm
Who cares what you sound like? You’re cute!
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December 14, 2012 at 4:46 pm
You’ll be just wonderful. Love the Santa hat.
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December 15, 2012 at 7:22 am
Hope the concert went fabulously. Mommy has been helping her niece with the trombone. They play a seasons greetings medley of songs. For some reason mommy just can’t get jingle bells right. Oh come on mommy, how hard can jingle bells be. So mommys nieces school concert is Wednesday. Hope they can figure it out in time.
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December 15, 2012 at 12:33 pm
We did a piece call the Trombone something or other….that featured the trombones doing the melody…was lots of fun. Santa directed it!
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December 15, 2012 at 8:46 am
Hope you had a great concert!
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December 15, 2012 at 12:34 pm
It was OK. Some of it was good…a couple places were entirely horrible…but it’s over and I’m glad. We were quite distracted by the tragedy in Connecticut but I can’t say that was the only reason we had bad stretches.
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December 16, 2012 at 7:22 pm
I played clarinet, too! Hope your concert went well.
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