Today I went with le bf to Fous Desserts for the Buche-tasting day... which was a real pleasure for my taste buds. However, I started to taste the Buches in the wrong order. I started with one that totally stunned me to the point of nearly discarding all the followings. Oh my god... So good. That subtle mix of chocolate and berries that just melted in my mouth second by second..... I can't wait for that Buche to be at dinner table.
Other nice point of the day, I met T there who was hanging out with some of her friends. She introduced me to that half-Singaporian-half-Quebecois girl who is really into opera and we got to talk loads about that. I finally found myself a buddy to discuss these things which make me look totally weird to half of my friends! lol She was a pianist/violinist but actually wants to become an opera singer, she said. She loves the stage, got great musicality (according to her Mom, who was also present). I hope I get to hear her sing/ play violin someday. I'm actually really looking forward to watching opera with her too!
Negative point of the day, and be prepared for immense bashing of a terrible choir: Handel's Messiah (or maybe in this case, it should be called, Handel's desperate cry for the end of the world) sang by the Korean church choir. I love Koreans, I do. And I always argued that Koreans have awesome voices and I have number of my friends who have such nice voices that they could become popular singers if they tried, like honestly.... But to undertake such a difficult and classical piece as Handel's Messiah is NOT for amateurs. I grew up listening to that piece at home so for me, to hear the massacre of such a work of musical art was absolutely dreadful and unbearable. I'll give 10 pts for the efforts, because it takes a LOT of guts to try something so hard. However, I would advise that choir not to ever try it again, unless they want Handel himself to turn around in his tomb and come back from the deads regretting to ever have written that piece.
Sopranos were especially horrible, followed by basses. When they had to reach higher notes, they just basically screamed. Hello? This is not Karaoke, you're on a stage with an audience who paid to hear singing, not screaming. The soloists were somewhat decent, since they're supposed to be professionals... but the Tenor sounded like the mix of a goat and a eunuch trying to compensate for his lack of manliness and musicality by adding notes where there were none originally.... meaning he sometimes started at the wrong place, which must have been very embarrassing for a "professional". They say he took major roles before as Alfredo in la Traviata or as Ottavio in Don Giovanni, but he has NO vocal power, NO musicality, NO expression, nothing attractive. He sounded basically like the poorer version of Bhota. (Wow, that's saying how bad he was...) What else. The freggin violins. Some of them were fine, of course. But there was definitely one violonist, if not two, that were OFF KEY like BIG TIME. Everytime I heard the cringing of the strings, I felt like my head was gonna explode. I could've murdered someone.
Oh you think I'm done? No, got some more! The conductor was stiff... The Hallelujah, which is THE most famous Christmas piece of all time, was a utter DISASTER. Even people who didn't know the piece, or even music, should have been able to tell the unmentionable HORROR that they turned this piece into. For the first time in my life, I wished I had been deaf. At that point, even the sound of a harpsicord sounded pleasant to my ear, and God knows I'm not so fond of harpsicords.......................
Now for the good things. I saw H unni whom I hadn't seen for so long. The bass soloist had a beautiful voice tone and he was quite good. He was the only singer that I could totally point at and say "wow, what a voice". Other than that, the drummer was awesome, but he didn't look at the conductor once, except for the final note. The choir had a lot of energy, even though it was badly controlled... They tried real hard, so we should really mention their efforts.... Another good thing about this concert is that I laughed a lot and S unni was also very entertained at the witnessing of such poor musical performance. No honestly, a clown on a stage would have been just as funny, but at least we did have a good time.... It reminded me that even if I fail my studies, I couldn't stoop as low as that choir. Basically, the very good effect of this lousy concert, was to make me feel better about myself....
In other words. I saw the LIGHT.............................................
Tomorrow will be a better day.
5 Comments:
omg I can't stop laughing at your review of the choir XD
I was in a concentration musique program in high school for give years and I really feared whenever we had concerts since the younger were put in the choir... young teenagers = des garçons qui mues. C'était épouvantable!!!
I wasn't there with you but I can totally imagine how it was like... Messiah is a classic that is too sacred to be stepped on the way you described it...
I feel your pain T__T
Glad you like my review of the choir. A bit harsh, perhaps, but honest opinion. If my Dad had been there, he would've been harsher.
Garçons qui muent + chorale, jamais un bon mix....
I hope you can't even imagine what I lived, you'd have nightmares just thinking about it. lol
格好良いなあ。you're so down to earth that sometimes i forget you have a really cultured side :P it's really cool that you grew up listening to that stuff and can pinpoint exactly where they went wrong and how.
このPost大好き。
チョーうける。
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