For Suzy's birthday we went as a family to see Tangled, in 3D!! I personally had never seen a movie in 3D before, and it was pretty cool. That aside, I have started a mission to have the whole world go see this movie. It's that great. Now, to uphold my image as a bored-by-everything-that-involves-people-under-the-age-of-12 teenager, I wasn't expecting very much. But it totally defied all my expectations; a super cute movie. I wouldn't mind seeing it again! And, as a plus, it had some really great musical numbers--bonus points!! Seriously, go buy a ticket and see it. :-)
November 30th was my very first orchestra concert ever. It also marked the end of my first semester in the Springfield Youth Symphony. We played lots of well-known pieces: Bach's Tocatta and Fugue in D minor, the Polotsvian Dances No. 17, Sleigh Ride, two movements from Beethoven's 5th, and a few "smaller" pieces. Everything went positively swimmingly until the very last movement in the Beethoven, which was the second to last piece on the program. Now in rehearsals I was/am not very good at counting rests, coming in too late usually and having to race to catch up. But during the concert I hadn't missed a single one and was feeling so pleased with myself (uh huh, pride goeth before a fall, surely!). We came to the last page of the last movement-which was super fun to play-everything was getting ready for the big finale, whennnn......wecametotheverylastrestandIplayedone-halfabeattooearly. There. It's out. Although it probably is rather difficult for you to read what I just said, so I'll say it slower. *clears throat* We came to the very last rest right before the Big Note and I played one-half a beat too early. Yep. Major fail. And of course, I played it the way it was supposed to be played: very loud and long, so the end note instead of being one whole note, was a quarter and a whole note. I'm sure I'll laugh about this someday. But, it was a very good learning experience and I will never do it again. End of story. :-)
Above is the only video I could find on Youtube of us; the video quality is rather bad, but the sound is nice. It's an excerpt from Jubilee, conducted by the fantabulous Carla Wooton.
Welll, there ya have it! A lot more has happened in our house, but I'm out of time for today. Guess you'll have to wait with baited breath.....
