*Jaw Hits Floor*
Just taking a break from cleaning my room. Again...how is it I'm this messy? Seriously...
So far I've attacked three drawers and my makeup. Found some chapstick where the SPF expired in '04. Along with some ancient concealers. And eyeshadow. Oh, and I've been trying to kill off a bottle of body spray from Bath and Body Works that's half done and I've had since 7th grade. Well, this morning after I sprayed it, I noticed it kind of smells like bananas. It's supposed to be cucumber melon. Um...bye-bye!
Today was my second piano lesson, and they've been going pretty well. Only one left, but I kind of know what major chords are (basically the arpeggios...), and a few intervals (major second, third, fourth...), and I can read bass a little better, and my hands are a little more coordinated, and I can do scales properly. Well, a few of them. Oh and I know where middle C is and I can kind of sight sing! Which is good, as that's a big part of music theory. Anyhoo. My lessons are after my brother's saxophone ones (his teacher does piano and sax and trombone and goodness knows how many other instruments) so I just sit around in the music store during his. Today I thumbed through the sheet music and found Fawkes the Pheonix for piano! So I flipped out and looked at it a lot and started counting my change to buy it as it was only a couple of dollars when the store owner looks up and goes "Would you like to purchase that?" and I said "Yeah!" and he picks it up and looks at it and goes "Well, merry Christmas. That's been sitting there since we first got it. It's a shame to see good music go to waste, so put it to some use. Enjoy" and handed it back to me. =]=]=] And this is probably the most exciting thing ever ever ever...
He continued talking to me, asking me if I was into Harry Potter and how much I liked the soundtracks when he says that he knows the composers for it. I'm pretty sure he knows John Williams, idk about Patrick Doyle but I know he knows Nicholas Hooper. So he starts telling me how when the soundtrack for movie five was being put together Nick sent him an email, asking if he would like to come out to London in a couple of days because he was performing some music for a Lexus commercial/putting it together, and there was enough time in there for an initial run/sight reading of a song for the next movie (movie five). Clyde (the store owner) said he couldn't get out there on such short notice, but apparently the whole thing took place in an old cathedral of some sort and they had the choir in the balcony for the HP song.
*jaw hits floor*
Seriously.
I would give ANYTHING to see that...
But wait! There's more.
Apparently, he goes out there all the time for things like that. And he's been to several John Williams concerts and him and all his composer friends take notes on the songs and compare them after the performance.
Oh, and he's been invited back to England for the composing for movie six. He'll be out there for a whole month and see/hear ALL of it.
He also mentioned how once, during a recording, a trumpet wasn't getting a part right and Chris was there (Columbus?) and he threatened the trumpet with his performing job to get it right.
That's...just...
WOW. Just wow. Amazing.
...I wanna meet a composer...who will invite me to England like that...
1 Comments:
*is jealous*
That is very very awesome! We both gotta get connections like that someday, man! It would ROCK!
*sigh* I want to see John Williams again! He is amazing!
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