You Can't Laugh and Play the Flute at the Same Time
I'm in the midst of some recording sessions with the Wind Ensemble at school.
It's countless hours of sitting still and being quiet and attempting to play perfectly.
Yesterday was 5 hours, today is another 7. And believe me, there will be much celebrating when we're done.
But last night, as we approached hour 5, I lost it.
We were done recording all of our concert music and were working on some educational pieces for elementary school bands.
It wouldn't be long until we were done; we just needed three clean takes.
The piece was called "Chrysalis", and was supposedly about a caterpillar becoming a butterfly. I don't even know what was so funny (maybe the guy in the audience flapping his arms, pretending to be a butterfly?), but I could not stop laughing.
I haven't had a laughing fit like that since I was in a chamber music concert in 11th grade and the violinist's stand kept falling down.
I had tears streaming down my face and I was shaking uncontrollably and I kept trying to play, but I would end up just choking on laughter, unable to make a sound on the flute.
And yeah, I do believe I ruined a take or two.
So, this morning I went for an early run, in the hopes that I'll be more sedated and not get quite as slap-happy. No promises though; sitting still from 10am-5pm on a sunny Spring Saturday has never really been my strong-point.
It's countless hours of sitting still and being quiet and attempting to play perfectly.
Yesterday was 5 hours, today is another 7. And believe me, there will be much celebrating when we're done.
But last night, as we approached hour 5, I lost it.
We were done recording all of our concert music and were working on some educational pieces for elementary school bands.
It wouldn't be long until we were done; we just needed three clean takes.
The piece was called "Chrysalis", and was supposedly about a caterpillar becoming a butterfly. I don't even know what was so funny (maybe the guy in the audience flapping his arms, pretending to be a butterfly?), but I could not stop laughing.
I haven't had a laughing fit like that since I was in a chamber music concert in 11th grade and the violinist's stand kept falling down.
I had tears streaming down my face and I was shaking uncontrollably and I kept trying to play, but I would end up just choking on laughter, unable to make a sound on the flute.
And yeah, I do believe I ruined a take or two.
So, this morning I went for an early run, in the hopes that I'll be more sedated and not get quite as slap-happy. No promises though; sitting still from 10am-5pm on a sunny Spring Saturday has never really been my strong-point.
posted by Curly Su at 3/29/2008 08:31:00 AM
1 Comments:
Hehe. Good one. I played Sax in high school. (Yeh, me and the rest of the slackers.) I don't even remember what set us off, but one night at practice, the whole section was choking on laughter. The drum major and band director were not happy with the sounds coming from our section.
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