The most exciting part of my week thus far has been the fact that I'm going home on Wednesday. I love New York and school and all my friends here but I'm very much ready to go home. I haven't been home since I left in August and I'm more than ready for a break at this point. Classes have been stressful lately, and there's been a lot on my plate. A good long break is highly called for.
In other news, the Mixtapes performed at the Bronx Botanical Gardens yesterday. That was pretty fun, we sang two half hour sets and we got to see the train show for free. As far as I could tell, it was just a bunch of miniature trains running through fake cityscapes and to-scale versions of historical NYC landmarks. It was cool I suppose, but not really my thing. It was nice that we got to go for free, though. The Gardens paid for our tickets because we were performing there. We sang outside which wasn't too bad for the first set but for the second set we were all FREEZING so I put my jacket and gloves and hat back on. It was definitely a fun experience and a nice way to end my first semester with the Mixtapes.
Sunday, December 14, 2014
Sunday, December 7, 2014
The Mixtapes Who Stole Christmas!
Concert weekend, yay! Yesterday we had our Christmas-themed concert, How the Mixtapes Stole Christmas. It was a blast! We definitely didn't have as big of a crowd as we did for our last concert, but it was a decent crowd and they had good energy. We didn't have an opener for this one, so we added two songs from our last concert repertoire to round out the night and make it a fuller concert. I had a couple solo-y moments in this concert which made me happy. I sang in the trio for our Mariah Carey "All I Want for Christmas/Christmas (Baby Please Come Home" mash-up.
We also had three small group songs where we split the entire Mixtapes into three smaller groups and each group sang a different Christmas song. My group sang "Sleigh Ride". The arrangement was really cool because it was the one song the entire way through, but we change the style in which we were singing, we sang it "in the style of" a bunch of different groups. We started out in the style of Reliant K, then we moved to The Ronettes, then Ella Fitzgerald, then TLC, then Karmin, then a regular section, then we had a 7/8-time section, and we finished with a regular 4/4-time section. The way the piece was arranged meant that everyone in the group got a small solo. I soloed in the Karmin section, and then in the regular section after we traded the solo between Andrew, Sarah, and me. It was nice to have a chance to solo so I was pretty happy.
We tried to live-stream this concert like we did the last one, but when we went to turn it off at the end we realized it wasn't running the entire time. We did have a camera running filming the entire concert, so we'll put videos up soon.
Also, side note, I'm going into my last week of classes for the semester. WHERE DID THIS SEMESTER GO??? I'm genuinely curious, because there's no way that three months have gone by. As hard as it is to believe that the semester's almost up, I'm very much ready to fly home a week from Wednesday. It's been waaaayyyy too long since I've been home, and I'm in need of a good long break.
We also had three small group songs where we split the entire Mixtapes into three smaller groups and each group sang a different Christmas song. My group sang "Sleigh Ride". The arrangement was really cool because it was the one song the entire way through, but we change the style in which we were singing, we sang it "in the style of" a bunch of different groups. We started out in the style of Reliant K, then we moved to The Ronettes, then Ella Fitzgerald, then TLC, then Karmin, then a regular section, then we had a 7/8-time section, and we finished with a regular 4/4-time section. The way the piece was arranged meant that everyone in the group got a small solo. I soloed in the Karmin section, and then in the regular section after we traded the solo between Andrew, Sarah, and me. It was nice to have a chance to solo so I was pretty happy.
We tried to live-stream this concert like we did the last one, but when we went to turn it off at the end we realized it wasn't running the entire time. We did have a camera running filming the entire concert, so we'll put videos up soon.
Also, side note, I'm going into my last week of classes for the semester. WHERE DID THIS SEMESTER GO??? I'm genuinely curious, because there's no way that three months have gone by. As hard as it is to believe that the semester's almost up, I'm very much ready to fly home a week from Wednesday. It's been waaaayyyy too long since I've been home, and I'm in need of a good long break.
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