Wind Chamber

Today went to Conservatory for wind chamber musics, with the biggest group of 5. The biggest group I have gone there with, before this, consist of ONE person. That's why I so happy when I "succeeded" in inviting the harpist to cellissimo.

So I was playing English horn in CFA until 6.45 (stopped halfway because of disgusting tone), then three of us went to YIH to have dinner. We then walked to conservatory and saw the other two there.

This one was quite a good one. Throughout the concert, Khee Nguen was giving me "wah, very good leh" look. His face was rather happy in the beginning, but was getting more and more "down" after that. I think he simply cannot accept that "clarinet can play like that meh". Yeda said, "I never knew clarinet can reach that high leh."

But I was distracted when the English horn came in. I was just looking at it, almost throughout the whole piece, and only hear the music when the English horn part was being played. Anyhow, I didn't find the oboe as impressive as the last (or maybe the last last) concert I had heard, though the tone was equally perfect. I think I was just too sick on English horn.

After the concert, I went back to CFA, while others went home. Tried English horn again. This time, the tone quality was a lot better.

Quote from Dennis:

You have been improving a lot leh.

Quote from Kian Wee:

Your English horn sounds nicer than flute leh.

Then I started to think, is my flute tone that bad? Come on, I have just played English horn for a week, and it's already sounding better than my flute?

I must be the most useless flute player on earth.