Preparation Woes

Once again, Chiok Yen is the only prime junior who faithfully attends my extra Prime sectionals. Well, he's got quite an optimistic character so I think he'll be alright for concert, despite glitches here and there in his playing.

Ensemble was quite unusual, with this practice being the last before concert. Domy was absent, doing sound test for Rondalla (for their Saturday Fringe concert), or so he claims. So we did Handel without both soloists. Much like a scamper though. Haha =) Most of us agreed to do the 4th movement a favour and 送他上路. Can feel that everyone's a little flustered and impatient, perhaps due to concert closing in soon. Attendance was quite under expectations, many juniors were missing from practice. Has NUS work just gotten harder or what? Seems like many of the undergrads are dumped with tons of work. Quite unlike the uni days of mine. Hmmm...

We spent quite some time on 春节序曲, ironing out percussion matters and the loose ends. For more than an hour perhaps. We skimmed through the surface of La Partida, Alex kinda facial-ly decided it was the best there was and we went on. Haha =)

During supper, the issue of the Japan trip came along and we were talking about the pieces to be played there. The group seemed to know of my dislike to let Domy do my pieces, and I feel quite bad about letting this come into the choice of repertoire for the trip. I just don't like the feeling of letting Domy sit there and have pieces prepared and served on his bed while he continues his nonsense with the group. It interferes with the interest of the ensemble, I feel it's just not right letting the vicious cycle go on and on. If he has poor choice of repertoire or concert planning, then it should surface to the CFA people, and hopefully, he changes or gets sacked.