Saturday, April 10, 2010
a new world, indeed
on this night on the eve of the acband concert, i sit at my desk with a blank sheet of construction paper in front of me, alongside coloured pens, paper cutter, all the works. and it remains blank, because of the one section member i have, i hardly know, and i don't have anything remotely earnest to say to her. sincere, yes, but nevertheless meaningless.i also thought it'd be good to have a camera, because concerts = camwhoring sessions to the max, and i miss my camera a lot. (i hope all sorts of bad things happen to the person who stole my camera, particularly when using it.) then, my heart sank when i realised i don't really have anyone to take pictures with. not that i don't have friends in the current alumni band, but i think a large part of my band life consisted of the people in my section, and now that they're not around, there's a heartbreak every time i pick up a euphonium.
it is perhaps fitting that the first time i return to play in the alumni without my friends (whom i always hide behind, thx) we are playing dvorak's finale 'from the new world'.
nostalgia aside, i shall be very glad after |5| of finale tomorrow, when i am done butchering the eupho soli accompanying the very nice clarinet part. to benpooi, jlee and other clarinetists, i am profoundly sorry.
