Comments on the CD. [journal]

[kyrasantae]

Hawkwood Elementary may not sing completely in tune (expected; I mean, they're little kids!) but their sound is so much better on the CD. And their handbells are really nice. And one of their songs got the pop song treatment (i.e. with some drums and pop-ification of the piano part). And their school song is really cute! And here we are with the really obvious out-of-tuneage with the piano, going flat on the a capella stuff, and other mangling. Some of the dynamics aren't blended really well especially in the piano, so sometimes it suddenly gets louder and stuff. And the distinct voices. Jeff sticks out in the men's part, Emily and I stick out in the altos, and I don't know the sopranos enough to figure out who sort of leads them though I'm sure someone does. But realistically each section does have a de facto leader who is secure with the part and can read music. It's just the way it was. (Ooh you can really hear me in the a capella part in 'Amazing Grace.') And we totally screwed up one of the words in that first hymn. I thought we had fixed that in a second take. Hrmph. Guess he didn't realize that. Actually you can hear me on most of the songs. I'm the one belting out all the loud parts with the vibrato. Heck, at some parts it sounds like there's only my voice in my part :s So yeah, our CD is so creepy.

We were hanging out at Dairy Queen today and there were two boys who walked by outside flipping around twenty- and five-dollar bills in their hands. We were seriously considering mugging them before someone else did, but I didn't think that Viv and I could take them on.

I overheard part of my sister's piano exam today and it's almost unimaginable what her nerves must have been because she was playing so much faster than she usually does -- like so fast one probably couldn't see her fingers. But still very well! It wasn't all messed up or anything!