I think I’m finally coming down from the post-concert-weekend high. The performances went really well, as evidenced by the endless gushing on Facebook – from performers as well as audience members.
After Sunday night’s performance, a number of us descended on Kendall’s for the afterglow, patting each other on the back and congratulating the wonderful soloists. I felt pretty good about my own performance, despite the mistakes I made. (It’s more than an hour of Bach, so there are bound to be mistakes, right?) Nevertheless, it was a lot of intense work that more than paid off in the end with 2 sold out performances, each ending in wild applause.
I left the bar “early,” at about 10:45… but I was up until past 2am, still wired from such a successful and gratifying weekend. A few hours later, I hit the road at 5:20am, heading back to Oakland. Even though I was exhausted physically and mentally, I was still very awake and very alert, with hundreds of notes still happily singing in my head.
How fortunate that THIS was my very first Bach B Minor Mass run, with Maestro Grant Gershon and my fellow LAMC musicians. What a thrill… though I fear (with devilish delight) these will be the performances to which I will measure any future BBmM experiences.
Here are a couple reviews:
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