Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No. 2 In C Minor

At last it’s finished… Our long awaited day of reckoning… ( well not really ). As each of us performers entered the stage we gave it all… Our passion, determination and desires to bring forth a magnificent set of Piano Concerto…

But what really happened before and during the Concerto? Obviously after the Concerto we will be enjoying ourselves for a night party… So what really happened?

Well… It started first on the day before the Concerto:

The members of Society of Young Musicians Manila first checked everything that’s necessary for the Concerto… Kind of making tune ups for the engine before a race. We checked everything including the chairs looking for some liters under them… Although some of the work we did are not really necessary like setting up Microphones in the stage and seating arrangements for the orchestra… It’s not really our job… Then after were finished placing everything in position we made our last general rehearsals…

Of course we followed our performance plan… Who goes first, next and last…Our Virtuoso Pianist Section and Violinists aren’t really interesting… Including me… Because it’s just plain music… Our main purpose is to accomplish our very first Piano Concerto… We are just a part of it… Like some kind of opening performances ( asungot for short ). Yes… After each rehearsals, then did the pressure came to all of us.
As the story progresses… Let’s recap some previous facts from my previous blog…

Do you remember Annabelle Mercado? Forget about her piano styles… Just bang her music! we didn’t know that natural talents come unnoticed. She’s like a DJ radio with a lot of song to play… Kind of a Mad Playlist… Check that out… Each and after our rehearsals she comes with us and sing a lot of song… Then dance and a lot of Head Bangs! ( xa ung dahilan kung bakit ako nabading nung kalagitnaan nang mga rehearsals… ay bading!!!! ) Yes. And so we continued to our main Story… The Performance Night!
Everyone’s glamorous in each of their outfits and style… Someone call it Hell but to me it was Heaven ( WO Yeah! ) so like we planned we will meet at the  Rondevu point where we will be setting aside every regrets, pressure and nerves… So during the performance we won’t have any regrets… ( no back down MAMA! ) So then we performed and became happy with our results.

Though there are some mistakes, they are unnoticable. ( it’s okay… ) so then came my  came, give it all out and defied all odds… ( Go for Broke! ) then after my turn… A few turns we came to our final set… The Piano Concerto… As Sir Marco gave his preludes and welcomed the UST Symphony orchestra together with Mr. Manuel Casas they Illuminated Our evening ( I want to be like that too! ) anyway everytime I remember that Piano Concerto the pressure for UPCAT 2010 becomes even greater…
So there’s the story… A Piano Concerto, Illuminated Evening and UPCAT 2010…

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