Yesterday I performed with the Taiwan Univeristy Alumni Association Chorus at the Winspear Center and out of my many years with the choir, I think yesterday was one of our best concerts. Ironically, yesterday was also one of our worst organized concert as 5 hours before the concert, no one knew who was playing the piano for our finale song. Further, when I opened up my violin case, I was shocked to find my E string missing. In the end, I had to play on 3 strings instead of 4. With ease!
It was a long day for me starting at 12:30 pm with nonstop rehearsals and practicing all the way till the end of the concert. We had a variety of different performances from choir songs, a lot of solos, dances (yes, Mabel was dancing), guest performances from the Children's choir, a Spanish dance group and of course my duet with my brother. I only have a few pictures (most of them during rehearsals) as my brother and I were preoccupied but hopefully in a week or two our photographer/videographer will get the pictures and videos published and I will be able to post them up! For now, check out what I
have. Don't expect any pictures of Mabel...or videos for that matter!
We celebrated our concert with a post dinner party at the old Marco Polo restaurant but there were fewer people than I expected there. Normally, we would fill the entire restaurant but I guess being a Sunday most people had to work the next day so just went home instead. In any case, the 10 tables that we did have there did not generate enough noise to drown out the mahjong playing that was happening in a room at the back of the restaurant. I went to check them out and the players looked intense! Gotta love chinese restaurants!
Pictures.