Ah, the end of the spring semester. Which means three things.

Most of the performances are now over [PCN and Carmina Burana]. Finals are coming up [I have one tomorrow]. And summer is almost here.

Here's the weekend recap:

Friday - The SFSU University Chorus' performance of Carl Orff's 'Carmina Burana.' We performed in Knuth Hall, which seats about 300 and almost every seat was filled. Our conductor, David Xiques, was trying to stress that one of the movements is supposed to be like dancing, so in order to put his message across, he started cabbage patching...in the middle of the performance. Almost half of us wanted to bust up laughing but professionalism and good judgement overcame us, although many in the audience could tell that something fishy was going on at that point. There's something about this piece that's like a magnet for people. It's primal and barbaric, while at the same time angelic and playful. As soon as we hit the last chord for the last movement, a man jumped up in the back and yelled, "Bravo!" and then the rest of Knuth joined him in a 5 minute standing ovation. It was the University Chorus' most challenging piece in quite some time, and the hard work paid off. If you ever have the chance to hear it performed, GO!

Sat - PCN @ Archbishop Riordan High School. Riordan has actually a pretty good theater, it seems like it could be McKenna [at SFSU] Theater's cousin. PCN pretty much went according to every year's agenda. The matinee show ends up becoming a big dress rehearsal, and it doesn't seem to go right until the Gala [night] show. Overall I heard good comments from my parents, because they'll tell me what they think. I got my dad to play for the choir's performance of "Nandito Ako" which was kinda different and scary. The members of the PCN choir decided that they wanted to make it from a ballad to an uptempo song. Uh Oh. But it turned out. Afterwards, some of the cast came over to my pad for an afterparty, but since we were so tired, almost everyone fell asleep.

Sunday I found out that Josh Habermann, our choir director may not be around for next year, which means a good possibility that the Chamber Singers won't be going on their 'every other year' international tour. Oh well, I'll still be there, and I hope to see some of you at our performances as well.