Do YOU listen?

Sometimes I wish there were cameras installed in each room at Eidman. Unless you've claimed the hallway outside the Master Chorale room or the bench just next to the one of the brass practice halls, you just don't know the what comes out of those rooms: amazingly rich sounds as well as a few clunkers here and there. Nonetheless, it's preparation for a quality performance.

Today, our first rehersal of the week, we hammered out some difficult spots in a few songs. Of course, for me, it's all a tiny bit over my head since I'm out of practice but I'm gradually getting back in the swing of things. I'll have to work on my own during my free time to make sure I know what I'm doing when we rehearse again on Wednesday but as much as that takes away from time I could use to do something "fun", this is my fun.

That, specifically, is something that's always bugged me. When we leave Eidman, we become another person in the sea of students at UTB. Unless I tell someone I'm a part of an "elite musical organization" (my director's words, not mine!) I'm just another student, no different than, say, a math major. People have no idea the extra hard work we put into rehearsal time, and on top of that the intense thinking process you have to maintain.

There's really no better way to show a stranger to the music world the passion people have for music than to tell you to sit outside a room in Eidman and do nothing but listen, really listen and feel.

“Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and cannot remain silent” - Victor Hugo