Music and Movies

Howdy y'all, how ya doin' t'night?!

Short post coz I'm watching Rent with my old roommate who's visiting me this weekend!!! And being really awesome and coming to the Wind Symphony concert on tuesday! Yay!

Anywhooo, music and movies. This thought was spurred on by watching Rent, the movie version. I've seen the Broadway version twice and listen to the Original Broadway Cast on my iTunes and iPod. Not saying that I don't like the movie, I do (Adam Pascal, ZOMG), I just wish they hadn't cut some songs and rearranged some of the scenes/songs. Granted, I didn't expect them to throw the orgasm scene in there but "Goodbye Love" and "Halloween" are awesome! They would have been what, five minutes extra to the movie? I've noticed this with other movie versions of musicals. Like Hairspray. Who sings to a photo? She needs to be in jail and they need to sing together and whatnot. Wasn't happy with that order of things either.

Now, chronology of things is not only messed up in musicals but I also noticed many things I didn't like in Twilight. We saw this movie tonight on campus and I remembered how much I disagreed with several parts of the movie. But alas, I'm not a film major and have no desire to be a movie director or producer, so my thoughts shan't be heard or obeyed haha.

Music, however, I can control (mwahahaha sorry students of the future). I had one of the most amazing oboe lessons this morning! Sorry this post is sorta random haha. My professor was being super strict with me today but in a good way! She got me to produce the most amazing tone! Started working on double and triple tonguing today too, I think I can do it, now that I know what to actually do. :) I need to stop being lazy and practice, but now that I'm working on the Mozart Concerto in C for oboe, chances are, I'll practice haha. I LOVE this concerto. A lot. I also really really enjoy most of the pieces we're playing on tuesday's concert. (8 pm. Concert hall, GMU. Go. KTHNX) We're playing a couple of pieces. We're playing a piece called Cathedrals by Kathryn Salfelder, based off of Gabrieli’s Canzon Primi Toni. This is a pretty interesting piece, lots of cool brass choir. We're also playing a Prokofiev March, a piece called Festivo (Gesualdo), Morro Lasso (Gregson) (P.s. i may have reversed Gesualdo and Gregson), and a really cool piece that I really like called “Concerto Fantasy for Two Timpanists & Orchestra” by Philip Glass. We're having two guest artists -well technically one because one's a professor here, but alas, I digress- playing fourteen timpani drums upstage. It's a three movement piece and it's awesome! The guest artists are Jonathan Hass and our very own John Kilkenny. It's gonna be super cool and you should definately come see it.

Ok so I think I'll let you go about your ways and go annoy the crap out of my floor with singing :D I'm sure I'll ramble about music again some time in the near future! Nightnight!

Until next time, somthing for you to ponder: why the hell does college cost so much!?