My Concert -vid

[Lintini]

Here are the videos from my concert on Tuesday. We played David Maslanka’s 4th Symphony. I started off the entire symphony with my horn solo. This is a major  piece and we worked extremely hard on it. David Maslanka came out to California to work on the piece with us and help us through it. The concert was amazing. I hope you enjoy my solo. The Church is amazing – I LOVED the pipe organist. He sounded AWESOME.

[mocha200]

those are So beautiful! love your solo!

[Lintini]

Thank you <3 <3  I was scared to death. I was breathing in and out and holding it to calm myself so I wouldn't panic in the middle of it. I was all nerves. That was a lot of pressure to have on one person lol.

[Monkeybun]

That was just awesome. You have tons of talent!!!

[Lintini]

My mom said the entire church was shaking. Our director Dr. Broadnax was thinking maybe we were giving California another earthquake. That pipe organ set it over the top. I wish you could hear him more in these videos. We heard him playing by himself on the rehearsal before and my jaw was on the ground lol!

[jerseygirl]

Such a massive sound!

was breathing in and out and holding it to calm myself so I wouldn’t panic in the middle of it.

Well Girl, you did great!! I could hear that last note of your solo carry as the others joined in – seemed like ages. I would have fainted from lack of breath.
In the final part what instrument is playing the “eerie” part? It was sort of like air raid siren cross wolf howl. Sorry, my best description/ Anyway, you saw people react to it. Was it flute and strings?
Also, I recognised the hymn in there. I had to look the peice up to find out what it was but the name wasn’t familiar. The melody was though.

Thanks for posting this Lin. What a wonderful thing to be a part of !

[Lintini]

I believe that was the piccolo trumpet at the end you are talking about at the very very end?

Or were you talking about the weird …weird part that sounds like crying? That is the clarinets taking off their mouthpiece and sticking their fingers in it to make the different pitches.

Ahh yes, the Old 100 Hymn. Very interesting too – that church is on it’s 100th year anniversary of being built.

[jerseygirl]

Must be the clarinets then. Spooky sound!
The hymn 100 – I don’t know it by that name but can’t figure what I do know it by.
btw, I sees you at the end. In the middle?

[Lintini]

Yup! That’s me! I get to stand up first My dad has the recording zoomed in on me, I am tearful and so so so happy. Did you hear the audience get louder when I stood up? I can’t believe I was a part of this and I don’t feel like I deserve it but somehow I do. What a joyful joyful night. Like I said to run to my dad after the concert when he was in the parking lot settling my grandfather in the car – and run to hug him and I just start crying and laughing at the same time, to see tears in his eyes and what he told me…I’m seriously on cloud 9. You guys this isn’t some amazing school known for the music department, but by golly we will be now!!! My good friend wrote something after our dress rehearsal:
Go for it!!!! A compelling reason to come and watch the CSUEB Symphonic Band find its heart.
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Sunday, May 30, 2010 at 10:01pm
This is the classic underdog story.

Take a ragtag group of misfits, give them a seemingly impossible challenge and watch as they surprise everyone INCLUDING themselves to come out the other side as better people.

We are the CSU East Bay Symphonic Band.

We are students, not students, musicians, fathers, grandfathers, technicians, brothers, sisters. We all have played music for 1 year, 10 years, 50 years and we all are going to discover our hearts on Tuesday, June 1st.

We do not deserve to play Maslanka’s 4th Symphony. Or rather, we shouldn’t be playing this piece. This is Grade V+/VI stuff and it demands the very most from each individual player. A single lapse, a single broken chain can bring the entire symphony to a halt. A university such as East Bay, with its commuters, teachers, students, cannot support a musical ensemble dedicated enough to WANT to do such a piece.

And yet, we are going to do it. And we are going to do it well!

Why?

Because we are. Because the music exists to be played and damn it why NOT us!? Why shouldn’t we be able to come together, once, in time and in spirit and in harmony and dedicate ourselves to the impossible?! Give the music its respect, give it everything we’ve got? Allow the music, as Dr. Maslanka succinctly put it tonight, “to move YOU through its intertwines?” Allow the music to move YOU. To play YOU. You are the medium through which the music flows, it cannot exist without you but it does not care about you, it simply is and must be! You MUST dedicate your entire being, your whole concentration, your first, last and everything (thanks Barry White) towards allowing the music to cry out amongst ourselves and be heard!

And when the piece is over. When the last notes of that glorious C Major chord dissipate through the ceiling and pillars of the wonderful church we will be playing in you shall look upon your neighbor and smile and breathe and sigh.

You will have just discovered exactly what music is and was and forever will be and this happened because you CHOSE for it to happen, because you WANTED it to happen and because you gave yourself up towards the greater good, because you SACRIFICED yourself to the music and allowed the music to speak through you! And when it’s all over we will all be better people, better musicians, better simply because we tried!

So GO FOR IT! Sing out through the notes, play the dynamics, accent the accents and feel the energy! Because this is it! This is our task and we are going to see ourselves to the end come hell or high water and WE WILL BE GREAT!

So what if we miss notes? The energy of the rhythm and the sound in our heads and the love in our hearts for this beautiful music shall overcome our deficiencies! We will NOT SURRENDER ourselves to bad intonation! We will NOT SETTLE FOR BAD RHYTHM! We will dedicate every fabric of our being to the music and we shall triumph!

We will win if we CHOOSE to win! We will triumph if we CHOOSE to triumph and we are GOING to rock the patrons of the church with music that has NEVER been heard in those halls and NEVER been played by these musicians! WE WILL LOVE!

So go for it!

[jerseygirl]

I did hear! You got “woo-hoots” !

Your friend is an inspiring writer. Was that for an internal publication? I really liked this:
 

You will have just discovered exactly what music is and was and forever will be and this happened because you CHOSE for it to happen, because you WANTED it to happen and because you gave yourself up towards the greater good, because you SACRIFICED yourself to the music and allowed the music to speak through you! And when it’s all over we will all be better people, better musicians, better simply because we tried!

[Monkeybun]

Wish I could have been there in person to see it. I’ll have to drive down sometime, if I can talk the hubby person thing into it lol.

[LoveChaCha]

Your solo was amazing Lin
It relaxed me.. I’m about to head to bed -_- ;;

[Lintini]

Jacob is our amazing baritone/euphonium player. He is one of the most kindest, lovable and most amazing person I have ever met in college. He is an amazing musician, and amazing writer as you can see. He wrote that to all of us on Facebook believe it or not!

[Lintini]

Thank you – I am so proud.

My friends teased me some what before the concert —what if I sat there and played the opening on my didgeridoo instead of horn LOL?! They also told me to think of my bunnies. But I will tell you what I did.

I spoke to my grandmother before we played. I told her…please…PLEASE…do not let me crack any notes (as a french horn player that is 99.9% of our fears) and I asked her if she was there…give me strength. Help me. I feel so weak please oh please help me. Please help me start this piece out for these wonderful students and friends that have worked their butt off…PLEASE. Let me make them proud. I held onto her necklace that was passed down to me and I asked her – I begged her. Please hear me – please listen to me. Let me do this, perfectly. She let me. She was there. Listening to me.

[Elrohwen]

Totally gorgeous! Your solo gave me chills.

What kind of group is this? College based? Local? You’re all very good!

[Lintini]

It’s a state college!

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