Dazu Today

Today's dazu is one the most fun dazu ever, although attendance was very bad. The entire orchestra maybe 20 odd ppl came. Pipa had no rep, liuqin only benedict and i were there.

The most exciting part. At about 5 to 5.15pm, chen lao shi came in. I actually thought he was going to stop dazu bcos of the poor attendance. He said he had received two letters from MOE regarding syf. The first letter was the judges' comments. He will be pinning it up on the notice board this friday. Right away, we knew the next one was about syf closing ceremony. We got confirmed for the selection for syf closing ceremony!!! That means we are one of the top 3 orchestras! :) It will be on the 30th of July, at esplanade. The problem now is we have to play Gada and another song. Zhihui suggested we play the entire of gada, take it as two songs. However, could we play the gwh standard once more. Yijing has asked everyone, including sec fours, to turn up for every practice starting this friday.

The other thing that made dazu fun was bcos we played the cut off parts of gada. We started off playing bar 272, erhu ppl dont have their erhus, so zhihui started with tanbo, and we screwed up our parts. But we man lian, and quietly while zhihui talked. We got better subsequently. It wasnt really slow hor, quite fast one. But benedict and I, we were able to play most of the song! Benedict is so pro :) And benedict and I,we stayed back to help ruan and yq with their duty, cos they only had 6 ppl today. So we made a deal, ruan and yq ppl will help us with our duty next week. Please thank benedict, he dont usually stay so late, i feel kinda bad for that.

That's all for now. Oh my gosh, everything has been a total dream come true, from the gwh to the open house performance, and now the syf closing ceremony. You guys totally rock. Looking forward to meeting you all this friday :)

Oh before I end off, tanbo has a very important meeting this friday, not sure what time, but will need everyone to participate.

Yao Zhang