Powell River, Day 11

"O Canada! Our home and native land ..."

To celebrate Canada Day and the beginning of HST - Powell River rained heavily today. :-P

The faculty of SOAP has kindly packed our day solid because they know there wouldn't be a lot of things opened in PR in this public holiday. In the first part of the percussion class this morning we ran through the rags for tomorrow's concert. I will be playing the solo part for "Rainbow Ripples". I have not played this piece since I was 1st year undergrad. That's 8 years ago. Boy, it's another of those "favorite number collection" incident (if you wonder what I mean by "favorite number collection", go to this post http://musicmonster47.blogspot.com/2009/04/favorite-number-collection.html) - it took 8 years for it to come back. I am quite amazed that I can put this piece back together in less than a week.

We went to McDonald's today at coffee break because the cafe we usually go to is not opened today. Good thing McD has cheaper tea so it didn't hurt my wallet too much ... :-P After coffee break, Bill went over the pile of timpani excerpts that he photocopied for us. Thanks Bill for providing amazing resources - apparently it cost him $80+ for photocopying everything for us. *bow*

After lunch I again spent some quality time with my lovely snare drum, for I was not needed for the first part of the orchestra rehearsal. It felt good to have some real practice time. We tried to play through Shosty 6 and Capriccio Italien non-stop at the rehearsal but both attempts failed. I wonder if we are even ready for the show tomorrow night.

Speaking of shows, tonight the faculty held another chamber concert. It was of course fabulous. My mind wandered in the second half of the concert though. I am drained after spending more than 12 hours in the same building for the past couple of days. Tomorrow will be another one of those long days. It would be even more tiring given I have two performances ...

Having said that, I should go to bed.