Monday, wish it were Sunday. Cause that's my fun day...sorry drifted off there for a minute. Well another week has past in it was pretty busy. Most of it was of the boring study variety, but Saturday was pretty interesting.
Okay, so we have a choir concert at Tokyo University's branch campus. I show up up at the main campus about two hours before the concert wondering where everyone is. Through a bunch of texts and cell phone calls I come to realize that I have travelled about 10 miles out of my way and need to backtrack like crazy. I make it there about 10 minutes before the concert.
Luckily, for the purposes of the current concert, I'm not an integral part, rather I am am of the derrivative spectator variety (heh, math humor). I don't have a formal outfit so I couldn't participate, which is all well and good because I currently don't have the songs memorized. I missed to many practices flitting back and forth between Kyoto, Tokyo and the United States. Well, next time maybe I can find some sort of outfit that will work.
Well the concert itself was fun. We gathered 9 chorus group from Tokyo University. Considering that Sirobara (white rose) Chorus group have 70 people in itself, I'm surprised that the college could put together so many. Well, we were good. Out of what I saw, we were the most professionally dressed. Another chorus showed up in street clothes, a decision which I firmly support due to lack of anything but. That group ended there show with "Hail Holy Queen". Yeah, I didn't recognise the title either, but its that one "traditional" church song that you heard in "Sister Act", the one that kicks the tempo up a notch mid-song. Something I hadn't expected while I was in Japan.
The last group I heard (left early with the rest of Sirobara) sang opera. There is just something innately interesting about watching a Japanese person, not the most physically imposing, belt out an Italian solo in fortissimo.
And then that night we drank. If I continue to talk about Sirobara, you'll notice this pattern cropping up.
That's it for this time. Hopefully, I can find stuff to take pictures of next time. I have a few on my cell phone that I plan to upload from the cherry blossom viewing. Given the quality of my digital camera, my cell phone probably has better resolution. Anyhoo, see you next time.
No one commented on this yet? Travesty!
ReplyDeleteGlad you had fun at the concert even though you didn't have a fancy suit. I don't know why the choir didn't provide matching outfits (mine did).
I really need to get back to my paper haha. Have a good one!