Q-tizzle concert

I had a concert for Saxophone Quartet. This is pretty much how I spent about 9 hours every week instead of studying.

It was so much fun playing in Elliot. It was just an amazing experience.
Enjoy

Fuga-Bach
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFD3COgfC0g
JeanJean stuff
1. Something
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LchiCrjZZvI
2. Doux Pasage
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1JMwpKv9GI
3. Papillon
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1eQyj6kbo2I
4. Humoristique
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8g_zDbv6hSg
Strange Humors
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TkpWGr-hB34

I like all the songs that we played, but my favorite is Strange humors. I liked the djembe player. He was just too awesome.
Sorry for the names for the Jean Jean stuff. Its french and I cant remember their exact names atm.
Hurray, 16days till I get back!

Kumi

Correction!

Hi again.

Yes, It is Band related.

I am so sorry I didnt say a single word about my saxophone in that last post.
Yes I had mysaxophone with me in the photo shoot. This is for the Band department.

The concept of these posters are that even though Purdue does not have a music department, you can still enjoy music! kind of thing.

So I was pretending to be a construction engineer and still playing saxophone at uni. Hence, it is a promotional poster thing for the band department here in Purdue..

That was the senario.

Sorry didnt explain too well.

Model'd

Hi.

I just modeled.

It was kinda fun. It was totally a different experience. So many awkward smile.
I posed as a construction engineer. I had to pose in front of a construction site on campus.
I wore a yellow hat on and everything. It was fun actually.
There was this funny guy who kept on making me laugh. I guess that was a good thing for them right?

Apparently, I am the only model for this year and the posters will be distributed for entire high schools in Illinois and Indiana. They said they were printing out 1500 of them... 1500 of ME!!!! wow...

They told me that they will send me some pictures before they go ahead and print them out. So i will show them to you when I receive it.
They also told me that they will send about 5 posters to me in Australia... that will be very interesting...

Anyways, I am freaking out that I am leaving this place in about 3 weeks!!!

Kumi

Heavy start of the weekend.

Hi all. It is Saturday afternoon and the weather outside is quite quite nice. I might got for a walk sometime soon or something.

But anyways. This weekend has started quite intensely for me. On Thursday night, we went to the ONLY night club in the town called NEON CACTUS, first time in the semester. It was quite fun. The bunch that I went with is not really into dancing or anything. So we were siting down talking. It was kind of waste of time actually. I was walking around finding people to talk to so it was okay for me. But if you are not going to dance or anything, what is the point of being in a night club? might as well go to the bar or stay at someone's house to have a drink. That would be so much more fun, in my opinion. Well I had fun though, I like hanging around with those people. We did not get back until about 3 in the morning. I had a uni from 9 in the morning the next day. I went! surprisingly. I was fully awake at about 7:30. I died in the after noon though.

Friday night, there was one of my friends birthday party thing. We went to this quite expensive Korean Restaurant. It was a good food. I enjoyed the company. After dinner, we went back to one of the people that was at the party to have a few drinks... my face was red. Maybe I should not be drinking anymore... It has been ridiculous. Havent thrown up or anything, but still... It is bit uncomfortable. I didnt get back to my room until about 4 in the morning and one of my friends came over to my room to sleep over... So I have not had a proper sleep for about 3 days?
sigh... I guess this is what I get for drinking 2 nights in a row. I will take it easy tonight and stay home, considering everyone will be done to Chicago tonight... No friends!

Happy Easter

Kumi

Super Jazz Jam

Hey.
Last Friday night, I had my first Jazz gig at Loeb playhouse. It is a music theater in one of the university buildings and the sound system in the place is pretty wicked.
We played four pieces
When you are smiling
North Shore Morning
Straight Up and Fly Right
Better Get Hit in Your Soul.




Better Get~ was so cool. this piece went for about 10 minutes, about 4 people had massive solos. hehe they had a clapping section as well! it was so hard! I was trying so hard not to mis clap because that would be really embarassing.

Hehe I think I had a accidental wrong note at the completely wrong place incidence a few times and that gathered a lot of laughs after the gig. Overall I think we played really well and I asked one of my friends to take a video of us playing so it was good :)

After out band played, there were AMRE (American Music Repetoire Ensemble) and Purdue Jazz Band. Both of them were just so impressive. They play hard core Jazz music. Their solos, solis. ahhh just soo good.



But anyway, thats all the news for me.

Bye