Saturday, April 01, 2006

hey everyone! this is schezn. :)

as xinyu's said in the email, there's REALLY ALOT TO DO. did anyone else go for the choir concert? it was very inspiring and heart-lifting. i hope our concert will be just as impactful. :)

i'm linking our concert to the choir one because the choir concert was also in lt5. it makes a big difference where the concert's held - the atmosphere, i guess. until today, i had this idea that our concert's really small and kinda casual/informal. sitting in the lt for soundscape today made me realize that because of the location itself, the lt's an auditorium, we can actually up the quality of our concert to make it even more impressive/grand.

since it's our first public appearance, we can use this chance to make piano ensemble look really really really good and it'll be our first step to establishing ourselves in Nj!

here're some thoughts i have about making our concert more impressive -twiggles eyebrows :

name of concert *urgent!*
ushers - for soundscape, the ushers made me feel really welcome. believe it or not, the place seemed warmer with them at the door.
MCs - good MCs will help our ensemble engage with the audience. the choir already had many fans in the audience. for us, we have, well, none, YET! so. if we have good MCing, we can become more personal with the audience and win their hearts over! *we can start telling our friends to come support us and cheer, to create a warmer atmosphere :)
decoration - choir had a banner, nice and big and attractive. to make one for piano ensemble may be a lil difficult cos of time, but we could think of decoration like flowers for the stage..?
lighting - do any of us know how to operate the PA room? im hoping to learn cos guitar ensemble's having a concert too and i volunteered to help with lighting. may not learn in time for our concert, so in that case, do any of us have friends in PA in j2 that can help? we'll also need PA support for mikes!
posters/pictures - have we seen the posters for SSO and other concerts before? they always have a picture of the soloist or the orchestra, like posing with the instru or something. we didn't get to do our last photoshoot, but we could take a really NICE photo with all of us posing at the piano and use it on the poster. just a suggestion. :)
format of concert - the 2nd half of choir concert was in the form of a "lecture". they had MCing between every small group's performance. so.. how should we do our concert? like the MCing wise?
rehearsals - we'll need alot of rehearsals to practice all the wallking in and the MCing and PA and lighting, etc etc.
pubstunts - since we're new, and since we'll be eating into the audience's lunchtime, guess we should do more to persuade them that giving us 30 minutes of their precious lunchtime is worth it. notice our audience'll hafta go hungry just to attend our concert. :( and we have to do this FAST cos we need to tell council more than 2 weeks in advance or something, and we need mrs koh to vet and approve of it.

as of today, 1st april, we have only 26 days left to the day of our concert. and that was not an april fool's joke. let's call for an urgent meeting! :
last thing, how about every time we blog, we introduce who we are first? so we don't get confused once more people post. :D just a suggestion.
THE PIANISTS. 12:08 AM
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