{"id":4817,"date":"2012-03-31T21:54:49","date_gmt":"2012-04-01T02:54:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amadeusacademy.com\/family\/?p=4817"},"modified":"2012-03-31T21:54:49","modified_gmt":"2012-04-01T02:54:49","slug":"mozart-requiem-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/?p=4817","title":{"rendered":"Mozart Requiem"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Program Cover<\/p><\/div>\n

Now that I’m relaxing for the night I thought I would take a moment and write a little more about the requiem.\u00a0 After all, it did take up quite a bit of my time and energy (and definitely raised my stress level!) for the past month and a half. \u00a0 \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

I arrived on Thursday afternoon and Mom and I quick ran through all the music (and when I say quick–it takes an hour to get through it all… so as quick as we could anyway!) before getting ready and hitting the road.\u00a0 We were both a bit nervous so we decided to just pack a light sandwich to have later in the evening if we got hungry.\u00a0 We pulled in to the university just before 6:00 and got set up for the evening.\u00a0 Then we ran through pretty much everything again with the conductor as their warm-up.\u00a0 We had a 30 min. break to stretch our legs–and for me, especially stretching out my back<\/span>, which was starting to get quite sore, from driving and then rehearsing at home then driving and rehearsing again… so it was nice to be able to walk around.\u00a0 We met Dad and decided that we should eat our sandwiches while we waited.\u00a0 It turns out I was a bit hungrier than I though because I downed<\/span> the sandwich.<\/p>\n

The concert started at 7:30.\u00a0 All the hours of practice came down to this.<\/p>\n

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Dad took these pictures from the audience<\/p><\/div>\n

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I stole these pictures from my Mom's website--and as she so accurately says "I know we don\u2019t have the most pleasant looks on our faces, but we were concentrating!"<\/p><\/div>\n

It was so much fun to actually hear the choir with my piano part.\u00a0 So often while practicing I would forget that I was just the accompaniment and not the main event!\u00a0 Plus it was always a bit lop-sided in the melody (or lack of melody) since it was a piano duet.\u00a0 It was so much fun to hear everything in the full arrangement.\u00a0 It’s also such a treat to be able to make music with other people–to really work to help the music come alive.\u00a0 That’s fun.<\/p>\n

The concert itself went just fine.\u00a0 I already mentioned yesterday that I botched up the intro to one of the songs, but I know that I’m not a skilled performer so I expected it.\u00a0 Luckily it was in one of the middle songs so I doubt many people remembered it by the end.\u00a0 When we were talking about everything afterwards it was highly amusing to hear that we both started to lose our concentration about three-quarters of the way through the concert.\u00a0 I guess it’s bound to happen when you’re focusing so hard for so long.\u00a0 I knew it was bad news when I started to think about how “pretty” the notes were on the page!\u00a0 \ud83d\ude42\u00a0 Luckily we were both able to keep it together.<\/p>\n

After the concert we went out for a celebratory supper (since by then we were REALLY hungry!).\u00a0 There is something so wonderful to me about getting special food after a major event.\u00a0 I just LOVE it!<\/p>\n

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I ordered a SCRUMPTIOUS strawberry Belgian waffle. Doesn't it look amazing!?! <\/p><\/div>\n

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Mom & Dad both got a meat lovers "skillet"--which also looked AMAZING! <\/p><\/div>\n

All in all, it was a fantastic day.\u00a0 I enjoyed learning and performing the music.\u00a0 I enjoyed being able to hang out with my parents and just chat.\u00a0 I enjoyed playing piano with my Mom.\u00a0 And I must say, in spite of all that, I’m enjoying being done.\u00a0 \ud83d\ude42\u00a0 At least for now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Now that I’m relaxing for the night I thought I would take a moment and write a little more about the requiem.\u00a0 After all, it did take up quite a bit of my time and energy (and definitely raised my stress level!) for the past month and a half. \u00a0 \ud83d\ude42 I arrived on Thursday […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[43],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4817"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4817"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4826,"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4817\/revisions\/4826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}