Its not as boring as i thought it would be, reason is because there are less than 10 people that showed up and majority are 1st violins.
Now why did I say "not as boring"?
A little info on how the string orchestra "status" works:
1st violins-- more "professional" (majority higher grades)
2nd & 3rd violins-- less "professional" (majority lower grades)
Wondering what about cello and double bass? They're not so much of my concern.
So...working in an amateur orchestra team (even though I'm in the Kedah Symphony Orchestra) is quite tiring. I dreaded the practices last year especially because the conductor had to focus more on the 2nd and 3rd violins, resulting a bored bunch of 1st violins texting, chatting, snoozing, dreaming......
PLUS, playing the violin long makes your shoulder and back ache.
Now why am I blogging this? Read on.
Mr. Lee (conductor): Playing music in an orchestra should be 1 tone, 1 music; and not playing individually. Lets say, you have Nescafe, Coffee Mate, and sugar, what will you get?
Student: Powder.
Mr. Lee: *blinks a bit~
Student: Because you haven't added water.
*Everyone laughs~
Mr. Lee: Okay, so lets say we added water, we get coffee right?
Student: We still can't get coffee if you add cold water, you'll get it if you put in hot water.
......We're talking about music okay. Not coffee.
haha..there is a conductor joke..
ReplyDeleteThere was a harsh conductor of an orchestra who would always speak sarcastically against the percussionists. One day after a very long unsuccessful rendition of an orchestral piece the conductor got very angry and said,
Conductor : Do you know what I heard the other day? I heard that if you join an orchestra and suck at every instrument, they give you 2 sticks and call you a percussionist.
In retaliation as a final straw, the head percussionist stood up and packed his bag. Before walking out the door he turned around and said,
Head percussionist : Do you know what I heard the other day? I heard that after they give you 2 sticks and call you a percussionist and if you still suck at it, they take away one stick, put you up front and call you a conductor.
With that he left.
Talk about a sucker punch to the ego man..=)