Mixolydians do Chester Winter Carnivale
Chester never disappoints! The little town with its ice-carving competition, cook-out chili, tractor parade, family crowd, street performers (such as ourselves) and oh, free beads! lol So fun.
Bad Island
Ben Bernstein's music senior thesis project, an opera adopted from the children's book Rotten Island (the illustrator is the same as the one who drew all of Roald Dahl's books!). About an island full of ugly monsters who love to hate ("We love our rotten life//we love hating and hissing...") and only know ugliness; until one day a mysterious flower grew in the middle of the island ("a thing of intense ugliness has arisen"), literally freaked the monsters out... They could not compromise on what to do with the flower ("I hate it when I don't know what to think or what to do"). In the end the novel concept of "beauty" created so much fear and confusion on the bad island that war erupted, and in the end all the monsters died ("everyone has succeeded in killing everyone// the island is a gigantic heap of dead...") It's quite intense for a children's story! Ok now I have all the Bad Island music runnign through my head again (hope you realize that all in parenthesis are lyrics...)
Anyways, great production! I learned a lot about running big events and working with people from the production team; these people are awesome and they will go far in the future!
What's left: Another music thesis symphony performance, another music thesis concert that I might be in, and Sweeney Todd pit orchestra. Of course Mixolydians final concert too.
I'm going to Mexico next week :)
Chester never disappoints! The little town with its ice-carving competition, cook-out chili, tractor parade, family crowd, street performers (such as ourselves) and oh, free beads! lol So fun.Bad Island
Ben Bernstein's music senior thesis project, an opera adopted from the children's book Rotten Island (the illustrator is the same as the one who drew all of Roald Dahl's books!). About an island full of ugly monsters who love to hate ("We love our rotten life//we love hating and hissing...") and only know ugliness; until one day a mysterious flower grew in the middle of the island ("a thing of intense ugliness has arisen"), literally freaked the monsters out... They could not compromise on what to do with the flower ("I hate it when I don't know what to think or what to do"). In the end the novel concept of "beauty" created so much fear and confusion on the bad island that war erupted, and in the end all the monsters died ("everyone has succeeded in killing everyone// the island is a gigantic heap of dead...") It's quite intense for a children's story! Ok now I have all the Bad Island music runnign through my head again (hope you realize that all in parenthesis are lyrics...)Anyways, great production! I learned a lot about running big events and working with people from the production team; these people are awesome and they will go far in the future!
What's left: Another music thesis symphony performance, another music thesis concert that I might be in, and Sweeney Todd pit orchestra. Of course Mixolydians final concert too.
I'm going to Mexico next week :)
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