WHOA... omg.... miracle boy was in the bottom three today. it scared me sooooo much. i was in the living room by myself, literally yelling at the tv. oh man..... him in the bottom three is SO not cool. but he was the first one to go back, so that was better. anyway, i was right, and mikalah is out. about damn time! *rolls eyes*

ok, so new music concert review. it's not gonna be that long because ... it will take me forever if i went through every piece. the actual concert was close to 4 hours. yes... 4. and i did indeed stay for the whole concert. paahh... anywhoo *pulls out program*
okay... so the first two pieces were by kevin saltarelli and kyle brenders, played by none other than the WLU symphony orchestra. both of them went really well, although cheryl kinda lost her place in 7:5:3 (kevin's piece). and kevin's piece was also the more popular one. i personally loved playing it. i really do enjoy kevin's compositions a lot. he is very talented indeed. i asked kevin, after the concert, if he was going to write anymore pieces for symphony, and he said probably not cuz it takes too long, and it's not good to work on a piece for too long, cuz you get too used to it. i totally understand. i composed tihs piece during reading week, took me like three days, but i was already kinda bored of it. anyway, kyle's piece went really well too, much better than rehersal, i thought. good balance of sound and all that jazz.

skip forward 4 compositions (which were all good, in varying degrees) to mr. glenn james' piece. by far one of my favourites in the entire concert. played by jen brimson, becky, melissa, joni glidden and matt waldon on piano. oh man... this piece blew my mind! it was fuckin amazzzing. just how each of the instruments worked with each other, and the piano. the performance was awesome as well, as expected each time melissa and joni are playing. (by the way, i feel the need to mention, joni was SMOKIN' HOT in his leather attire. OMG. sooooooo hot!) becky and others are super good musicians as well, don't get me wrong, but i don't often hear them, since they're winds... soo....yeah.

paul pulford and nick storring's improv piece was definately interesting. nick is a genius with his computer, i swear. it's hard to explain what was going on, becuase i don't really know nick did, but paul's cello was plugged into an amp and nick's computer at the same time, and it was just a lot of digital sounds and stuff. you had to be there.

ok... D-Wight's piece was also another one of my favourite. it was a percussion composition, performed by the percussion ensemble. olaf later told me, at Duke's, that they messed up and lori wasn't even ready but didn't say anything. but honestly, it sounded so good to me. eric woolston ROCKS at that tom toms, or whatever he was playing.

another one of kevin's pieces, titled I Wonder If You'll Smile was really interesting. it was performed by him and brandon, on the snare. and kevin (who used to bake) had this huge lump of dough and was kneading it on a table, while him and brandon took turns narrating. it was.... kinda weird. i'm sure there's a deeper meaning to that, but i didn't really know what it was. but i could tell kevin's really good at kneading dough. :D i'm gona make him bake me bread one day. haha! (seriously... he used work at the huether, baking stuff).

Funeral Blues, written by cynthia johnston (whom i don't know), and played by olaf and pete lamont. that piece started off really well, with pete on the tubular bell (church bells), and then olaf came in, first really slow. when they got to the fast part, they kinda messed up a bit, and it was obvious pete was trying to follow olaf, and olaf was just goin away with it. it was good though, for real. a nice, different sound. i like vibraphones a lot.

Chris Reich's percussion piece ROCKED. oh man.. i LOVE percussion performances. this was awesome. wood blocks, heather on marimba (although she didn't play often), cute mike on bongos (i don't know his last name, sorry. haha i met him at Duke's last time), and this other person, whom i don't know playing a nail. yeah mian.. it was coool. i highly enjoyed listening to that.

okay... Perception, by sally norris was another one of my fav's played by strings. amy, justin, liz, laura and andrea stuart. okay what was realllllly cool about it was that everyone except justin was sitting in a circle, like how you would expect them to. but justin was wayyy up in the stands. and there was no melody to tihs piece, just long long notes, mostly dissonant chords, all the way through. but the first note "supposedly" played by liz, but ACTUALLY played by justin. liz was moving her bow. but yea, mian, it was cool. sometimes i actually wouldn't know who was playing and who was pretending. but i could tell most of the time. it was long, and continuous legato sound, but it was soooo cool.

olaf's string quartet piece was pretty cool too. melissa, james, adam riggs and robin (viola). it wasn't a very melodic piece, but it was played really well. the BEST part of this performance was james' jeremy bell cues. hahaha!! you know how jeremy cues with his butt, and it's soooo dramatic? haha! yea, james was kinda doing that. and he was also clearly conducting with his violin. it was awesome, i applaude him for that. hahaha it seriously made me chuckle inside.

Ruth's and Colin's brass quintets were meeehhh...
i mean, they were good compositions, but i think being a string person, iiiiii dunno. they had good sound most of the time, but like, for trumpet, personally, i like really piercing trumpet sounds, and i didn't think cam and ian did that. good playing though! and honestly, by that time, my mind was just sooo tired from sitting through like over 3 hours of music. paahhh... i couldn't really concentrate on the details. and the majority of the audience left as well. after the second intermission, it felt as if everyone left, and only actualy student stayed to watch. well... there were some real audience, but a lot less.

yea....... anyways.... there was one more piece, but i honestly don't even remember much of that one. i was sooo tired by that time.

holy shit... this review is long. believe me... the concert was even longer. pahhh... anyways... before the concert, me, laura, andres, lorna and lucas were talking about apocalyptica and hot cellists. and lorna was telling us how one of them kept looking at her when she went to their concert and went to her right when they finished playing. and we were like "lorna! you should've went for him! screw the bf! take the hot cellist!!" and lorna was like "nooo! i have a bf!" and then lucas was like "damn... if a girl on stage playing the cello kept looking at me, i'd go for her for sure" hahaha omg... apparently, apocalyptica came to toronto recently. i don't really remember what andres said. but yeah.... OMG!!! i wanna see them sooooo bad. ahhhh... ok i am starting to really obsess with them. oh man.... celllooooossss..... are soooooooo seeeexxxxxyyyyyyy..... mmmmmmmmmmmmmm........ *listening to apocalyptica's master of puppets* mmmmmmmllllahhhhhahahahhhhh haop haop haop!!

ok i'm gonna go before i start drooling and orgasming all over my laptop and break it.