BERLIN PHILHARMONIKER!!!!!!!

First things first.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MDM SHA!!!!! Sheng ri kuai le, Saengil Chukha Hamnida!

1-1APPY B1r+1-1DAY (this is how it's written on the calculator. She's my P6 Math teacher! :D) I want all my P6 teachers back T_T

Hi friends,

NYGH STRING ENSEMBLE GOT TO WATCH THE BERLIN PHILHARMONIKER FOR FREE!

FREE!

FREE!!!

THE PRICE OF THE USUAL TICKET RANGES FROM $80 to $680!!!!!!!!!!

IT'S LIKE THE WORLD'S BEST ORCHESTRA!!!!!!!!!!!!

You're jealous right?...

.......

...I know you aren't.

And it was not the real concert, it was like the rehearsal, so there were some interruptions here and there. And they were filming it in 3D and they were filming the audience too and we got the first row so we had to not fall asleep.

Which is sometimes challenging -

- DON't GET ME WRONG They're really awesome. I MEAN IT. They are like really awesome. And when they play the super loud parts with crazy grandeur you feel like you're being blown off your seat with this wave of awesomeness. Then another wave of awesome comes WHOOSH and I was like WHOAAAAAAAAAAA I'm surfing some awesome. And this tsunami of awesome sweeps you up in this pure awesomeness and crashes on my feeble mind and I'm all like WHOAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA (no I did not say that out loud. Of course not.)

But that was how my friend woke up.

She woke up whenever the grand parts of the symphony were played. And my brain which became hazy from time to time (my sincere apologies to the orchestra because they do not deserve a single sleepy member of the audience at all) woke up during those parts too.

It's not the orchestra's fault. It's just that...some parts sound like lullabies.

I'M REALLY SORRY...they don't deserve an audience like me who feels like sleeping in any part of the symphonies.

But at least I didn't sleep...3 of my friends did XD Then they woke up when they heard the loud clash of the cymbals and the awesomeness tsunami made its greatly anticipated entrance.

The conductor guy is called Sir Simon Rattle but thanks to his hair we preferred to call him Einstein. (The orchestra is German. Okay this is a random insert byebye) so um anyway he looks like a really fun humorous nice guy. All jolly and funny like a German. He looks really cool when he conducts it's like he's a magician and this magical show was performed with perfection.

OH LEMME INTERRUPT. Let's talk about some Asian pride.

The best player is ASIAN! YES THE BEST PLAYER IS THIS ASIAN GUY YAYYYYYYYYY He is in first violin and he gets random small solo parts once in a while. But he plays really loudly and really passionately. I feel my eyes being drawn to him. It's like he consumed some magic powder and his entire body jerks with this crazy powder and the music that pours out of his violin is MAGICAL AND EMOTIONAL AND PASSIONATE AND INTENSE AND I WANNA PLAY LIKE HIM.

Only thing is, he didn't consume any powder. IT'S BECAUSE HE'S ASIAN. The rest of the orchestra, they probably consumed the magic powder...

...Of course they didn't. All of them must have practised really hard. They probably make music their spouse or something. And they all look like very jolly happy people. Who drink their nights away and work like crazy the next morning for music. That's just my German stereotype but I'm pretty sure the guys drink a lot together.

The best part of the performance is seeing their togetherness. Like how they understand each other so much. And their passionfruit really shows. It shows in the way they perform. For example, I'm sitting in the front row so I don't get a very good view of anyone beyond the first row of violinists but I can see the hair of some people beyond the row flying around. Especially the bass guy. There is this bass guy with golden hair and he plays so crazily his hair looks amazing. I do find him inspiring because I feel that good bass players who play with passion are rare. I may be wrong though but all the same I find him inspiring.

I guess the funny part is when the conductor keeps going on and off the stage. In the brochure, one comment by a reviewer was "The ovation just kept going on and on."

This is what happened:

- Symphony ends and conductor bows. Very enthusiastic clapping in response which they truly deserve.

- Conductor leaves and clapping continues.

- Conductor goes up again to bow again or something. Clapping becomes louder.

- Conductor leaves and clapping continues but dies a bit.

- Conductor goes up to shake hands with some players and clapping becomes louder again.

- Conductor leaves and clapping dies a little but still going.

- Conductor goes up again to get flowers and clapping surges. My friend asks why is he going up so many times.

- Conductor leaves and clapping dies very little. My friend stops clapping.

- Conductor goes up and sections of the orchestra rise one by one to loud clapping. My friend shakes her tired arm.

- He goes off permanently.

XD

Do I sound like I'm making fun of them? I hope not...because they did a great job. Tomorrow at CCA Mr Sze's going to ask us why we don't sound like that.

I have no answer...maybe it's because we have no magic powder.

OKAY FINE I DIDN'T PRACTISE AS MUCH AS I SHOULD. Or as much as they did.

*sigh*

Overall I think it was awesome and they would have received a standing ovation if the audience was not a Singaporean one but I wouldn't pay $600 for it. Or maybe I'm just not mature enough to fully appreciate it.

So um yeah that's it.:D

I'll go look for some powder. MWAHAHA.

And um enjoy the rest of your hols? :D

Cheers
Grapesgirl