DC concert

So this last Saturday, I'm enjoying a nice long sleep-in until 10:30, when my mom comes into my room and says that something having to do with Springroll is short one cello, and would i like to do it.  There's a rehearsal today at 1:00pm.  I say sure, why not, and go back to sleep.  Once i wake up again, i go into the family room and ask what exactly i agreed to.  One of Springroll's friends from MCYO (maryland classical youth orchestra) wrote a suite for strings to be performed for some fancy benefit thing in DC.  Turns out, the wife of the secretary of defense for the clinton administration wrote a play called Anne and Emmett, it was Anne Frank and some black guy that got killed cuz of racism in the south, and it was a fictional conversation between the 2.  So the play that she wrote has a score written for violin, and that's it.  Springroll's friend got to play the violin part for the play and then surprised the lady who wrote it with his whole suite for strings, another score for the play.  He got a bunch of his friends to play it while he conducted.  So i thought it was pretty awesome.  We came out on stage and played it and everyone was so surprised. it was cool.  The woman who wrote the play was a lawyer or business woman or something really big, and her husband was a major politician (obviously.) So she's black and he's jewish and it caused a huge controversy when the got married and they both put their careers on the line.  So they're really cool people.  So they were at the charity thing, and the charity was to send kids who can't afford it to let them go to performing arts camps.  And i'd always gone to performing arts camps cuz my family has money, so i thot that was really cool.  So it was just... cool.  The concert turned out GREAT, and it will probably be in magazines all over the world cuz famous people were there, and the surprise will probably get caught up my the media.  Thats being optimistic, tho.  I'm glad i got to do it.

Oh yeah, and i have like TONS more confidence in my cello-playing ability now.  Cuz the cello section consisted of me, Springroll, and this other guy from MCYO.  The other guy made first chair in All-State orchestra.  And i was better than him, at least in an orchestra setting.  I have a feeling he was trained as a soloist, unlike me who was trained as an orch dork.  Thats why he does so well on auditions, but not so well in an orchestra.  As much as Springroll talks up MCYO, i don't think its a hard as i originally thought it was.  Theres a more advanced orchestra and a less advanced one in MCYO, and i was planning on trying out for the less-advanced one, but now i really think i can do the more advanced one.  I really think i'm completely up to it.  I may be like 15th chair, but i would still be in the ADVANCED PART OF THE MARYLAND CLASSICAL YOUTH ORCHESTRA. that would be so awesome. XD

*hugs*

~MC singing out<3