Audition / Crazy Opera Day

Monday was a pretty crazy day! I got up early to practice for my seating audition - around 6am. I had just started looking at the excerpts from Mahler the night before and was trying to continue to drill them into my head. When the bus got to the complex I had to audition right away because they scheduled an opera rehearsal to start a half hour after the auditions started. I think I played pretty well considering my lack of preparation - I had never played those excerpts before the night before the audition - haha! I ended up 5th - Mark told me that he wanted to rotate the section and put me in the back since I was a strong player.

After the audition was opera rehearsal and lunch. Then we rehearsed the Mahler in orchestra for the first time - it is so hard!! We had dinner down on the beach - it was pretty good! Here is a picture of us out near the ocean. We had ANOTHER opera rehearsal after dinner! We were getting ready for the performance on Tuesday.

I think I played for more than 10 hours Monday - I was totally exhausted. I'm lucky that I'm not having pain/soreness problems - alot of other people here are having problems with their arms, wrists and shoulders.

I never eneded-up finding my watch :(. I went to look for it on Sunday morning but I think the tide took it.