A friend was telling me she (and another mutual friend) were at the Sibelius concert. She said we sounded good (both with the symphony and out in the lobby.) Nice validation, you don't always get feedback, I do a lot of choral singing, I don't do it for the validation, but you know...it's nice to get it anyway. (Also, most of the time, you haven't a clue what you sound like as a whole; in most rooms, you can't hear it. When we sang in the lobby, I ended up way out on the end, and couldn't really hear any of the other parts. I always enjoy when we move around in rehearsal either changing places, or once one of the directors had as all walk around the room and sing, both practices enabling the ability to hear the mix of all the voices.) And sometimes this singing-creation-writing-performance-art thing, feels like existing in a vacuum; it's not just ego, we all need feedback and encouragement now and again. I need it.
Went to this playwright group's reading of new short works (excerpts) last night. All took place in a movie theatre. Good writing, good acting. (My favorite was the first one, where two people meet in a movie theatre because the man tells the woman that she is wearing his ex-friend's dress. By the end you don't know if this is really the first time they are meeting, or if they are starting their relationship over. That was a nice twist. I think that was by Stephanie Timm. The two other writers that presented work were Frank Basloe and Emily Conbere, I enjoyed all of it.) It was closer to an actual performance than a staged reading; the actors sat in the theatre seats (rather than behind a stand), and though they were holding scripts, they interacted with one another, and looked up most of the time. (Not always the case.) Took forever to get home. Traffic had been backed up all afternoon, and the buses were still off schedule. The bus I ended up eventually catching was 25 minutes late, but that worked for me (I thought it was early.) Traffic was bad this morning as well. Took 40 minutes to get to work. (Usually, it's about 15.) Traffic wasn't moving much, and then there was an unannounced reroute. Apparently, a road is closed.
Have a wicked headache, seems to be going around today.
More water pictures...still attracted to reflections. Oh, and a duck.
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| Tree, March 25/L Herlevi 2015 |
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| Sky, March 25/L Herlevi 2015 |
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| Proud, March 25/L Herlevi 2015 |
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| More Clouds, March 25/L Herlevi 2015 |
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