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We didn't suck!!!
Feb. 9th, 2009 12:58 amTechiya went to New York this weekend, in order to participate in JCFPA, the Jewish Collegiate Festival of Performing Arts. We also had a paid performance at the JCC on Saturday. At the JCC we sang everything in our repertoire, and at JCFPA we sang 3 songs since there were a zillion groups.
The concerts went way over on time, and in between each group there were these really bad skits which should have been cut when they realized how late we were running. There were a lot of good groups, but a lot of people sang the same sorts of songs (though the U Chicago group sang a song from Dr. Horrible, which was made of awesome). We sang Melech Shelach (Israeli pop song), Rumania, Rumania (a famous Yiddish theater song) and the Carmen Sandiego theme (complete with parody lyrics). And the audience went crazy when we did Rumania. I had jokingly made a comment earlier "we should try and get the audience to clap during Rumania!" I said this because Rumania is not a song people clap to. But the audience clapped during Rumania!!! WTF?
And Carmen Sandiego wins all ties.
So we stole the show, which was completely unexpected, at least by me.
On the way to the bus, while waiting for the subway/while on the subway we sang. (We were down a few group members at this point but still had all the parts covered.) I thought we should have held out a hat or something, considering we're trying to pay for our CD...
Actually, our website now has MP3s from our concert:
http://web.mit.edu/techiya/www/music.html
But the CD will actually be mixed and stuff and should be good. I hope.
And now I'm home, about to go to bed, since I have class at 10:00 AM. Luckily all the readings are things we read last year in the Paul class, so I'm not behind.
The concerts went way over on time, and in between each group there were these really bad skits which should have been cut when they realized how late we were running. There were a lot of good groups, but a lot of people sang the same sorts of songs (though the U Chicago group sang a song from Dr. Horrible, which was made of awesome). We sang Melech Shelach (Israeli pop song), Rumania, Rumania (a famous Yiddish theater song) and the Carmen Sandiego theme (complete with parody lyrics). And the audience went crazy when we did Rumania. I had jokingly made a comment earlier "we should try and get the audience to clap during Rumania!" I said this because Rumania is not a song people clap to. But the audience clapped during Rumania!!! WTF?
And Carmen Sandiego wins all ties.
So we stole the show, which was completely unexpected, at least by me.
On the way to the bus, while waiting for the subway/while on the subway we sang. (We were down a few group members at this point but still had all the parts covered.) I thought we should have held out a hat or something, considering we're trying to pay for our CD...
Actually, our website now has MP3s from our concert:
http://web.mit.edu/techiya/www/music.html
But the CD will actually be mixed and stuff and should be good. I hope.
And now I'm home, about to go to bed, since I have class at 10:00 AM. Luckily all the readings are things we read last year in the Paul class, so I'm not behind.
