A Symphony of Mishaps
Well, the orchestra concert was this night and while both orchestras sounded awesome (Symphony too), there were some things that could have gone better:
1) I'm in the restroom changing into my tux, when suddenly I realize that I don't have my pants. Now it's like 20 mins until I have to be somewhere, so I jet home and still can't find them. So I throw on a dark pair that's as close as I'm going to get. For reference, they were in my closet, I just for some reason couldn't find them.
2) The stage was hot and bright. You could barely see the conductor, and it was really really really hot.
3) My bow was cracked before the concert. After Sinfonietta got through and I got my bow, it was in really bad shape. And during the second to last song it broke, leaving me bowless. So I had to dash as fast as I could back to the Orchestra room to get another, which had no rosin on it anyways so it wasn't making much more noise than I would have without a bow. This process of course left me winded, since I was running really fast and I have no endurance.
Beyond these little incidents, it was a good performance at least. Though we did rush our last string piece to an extreme tempo, but that's typical of us.