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Sunday, May 22, 2005
Yokohama F Marinos vs Urawa Reds @ Nissan Stadium and TWE Ensemble Festival
The whole gang outside the stadium...
btw, the stump that we were posing the with is a memorial of the World Cup 2002.... the finals between brazil and germany was held in this very stadium. and the person with the sexy leg sticking out is chee keong... signs of warm weather when someone is wearing shorts out.
well finally today i have a day all to myself... it's been a long long while... it feels real good when you can wake up at 3 pm! ha... finally...
and something tells me that i should take this chance to sort photos, which i have not done since the last time you guys saw any on this blog... (and that is some pretty long time)... but, this being my one holiday after a long while.. think i will take a break from ANY work instead... (yeah sorting photos is tedius work, at least for me)... but to give you guys a treat, i have uploaded the solitary photo above, since it lies conveniently in my desktop.. hehe. (yeah, big deal)
regarding yesterday's ensemble festival (or enfest, as they call it), well i did perform in 3 groups out of 10... and my groups came in 4th, 5th, 8th... well... not expecting wins anyway.. at least i got a chocolate for ending up 4th... hehe... but the 1st was real good though... think the usual japanese doing fast semis in perfect unison and harmony.... yeah... that was about it.. most ppl gave them 10/10 (but i gave them 9.5, since there's always room for improvement, no?), so how to beat that?
anyways some comments on my playing... (you guys back there who knows my clarinet standard will be laughing your heads off...)
1. 凄い、上手、うまい、etc. the usual japanese praise that isn't worth a cent (or so i think)...
2. my sound has some quality in it that japanese somehow lack...
3. i play very delicately (unlike japanese), which is nice, but my sound and the others dun really match, which is not so good...
4. my vibrato is very nice, sounds sophisticated. heard some clarinettist with the same vibrato in a czech philharmonic orchestra before... again something that japanese dun really have.
hmm... with the above praises, i should be happy, no? what's more these are coming from my conductor (a professional, not like all of us, amatuers)... but i know my own standard lah (and so do some of you)... so well... last nite keep saying "no lah" and thank yous lor... what else can i do?
so anyway that's that... and i just realised that i have practice next saturday too! @#$# and the band is going to buy a new romeo and juliet score, the one which has the crazy running notes all throughout the movement... cos they feel that the current de meij one, no impact.
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whatever.
兵来将挡
Updates:
for those who can read japanese, here are the exact comments (only listed those related to me)... for those who can't read, pls use a language translator or something:
1. ウィンストンさんの音色がすごくきれいでびっくりしました。
2. ウィンストン君のヴィブラート、Clでは難しいようですが。雰囲気を出すために使用していたのが良かったです。
3. 渡辺さんWinstonさん1st頑張ってましたね。 バランスもよく、Good.
posted by winz at 4:55 PM
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