I'll tell you what, sometimes I am just absolutely, I mean ABSOLUTELY, amazed at the cool opportunities that come my way simply by being a part of a community choir. It's true, I also do music as a profession, but many people in my choir don't. It is also true that one does need to audition to get into this choir, and for some of the most cool opportunities (full paid trip to NYC to perform with the DSO for example) one must have a second audition, but come on, 99% of us are not professional singers at all. Well, last weekend was another one of those moments that I was like, "Really, just for singing in a choir, I get to do THIS???"
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I got to run down this storied tunnel where members of the winningest teams in the history of college football (although, not as of late, haha), have run down. And, I got to follow a tuba, those football players don't get to do that! (-;
And I landed deep in the largest stadium in the country!
And, I got to quick snap what I think is one of the coolest pictures of my time there. Only marred by the unlit "s" in the word "stadium." There were literally hundreds of people all around me, and the marching band director almost giving me the evil eye because we were supposed to be exiting the field after Friday night's rehearsal at this time, and I'll tell you what, they plan those rehearsals to the minute (we had a four hour itinerary of rehearsal things for a 15 minute half time show!). So, my little linger caused that directors red flags to go up. But, seriously, I could NOT pass up this shot!
When the choir finished rehearsing we got to sit back in the stands and watch the every amazing marching band rehearse. Little known fact maybe...I used to be a band person back in the day, drum major even, not a choir person. That didn't happen until college. I thought this perspective was cool because most people are probably in those stand when that giant M is covered with other people's bottoms, probably never get to see it. (-:
Game Day! I got to see a sector of society that I have zero familiarity with. That would be, people that love, love, love college football. I used to go to this university and I never even went to one game back then. I'll occasionally watch a game or two a year, but, wowza, to pay $50 to park...uhm...!
I mean, look at this business! there was a whole row of RV's parked here, big, HUGE, RV's with loads of people that stay over night for a ball game played by young 20 year olds. It.Is.Very.Foreign.To.Me.
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This is just after our performance for the nation's largest audience ever.
We had to scootch off the field super quick because word had it that we'd get the band department fined $10,000 per second if we went over our allotted time. The band director actually told us that and didn't sound like he was kidding around, but seriously, when we weren't even actually broadcast anywhere? Just in case though, we scootched.
And while we were scootching, these guys had taken the field and were tossing the ol' pig skin around already. Yeah, you know, just hanging around on the Michigan turf while the players do their warm ups, what about it? (-:
And finally, the other Big House on campus. This concert venue used to seat 4,100 people before it's recent renovation and is renowned far and wide for it's exemplary acoustics. Everyone who is anyone in the world wide music arena has performed here and I got to end my night here with a stunning program of Beethoven music, some of which was played by the talented, Andre Watts.
Couldn't beat this day!
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