Monday, April 03, 2006
Soundscape 2006.
Successful? Depends on how you see it.
Most of the participants (a.k.a the kids) seem to think it was. In fact I'll say all of them thought they did great! All the teachers thought they did great as well. So did Ai Hooi. So did many of the seniors who were there watching.
Makes me wonder, what would Ashleigh think of the concert if she had been there?
I wonder what yardstick they use when they deem Soundscape 2006 a success.
If it's about ticketing, sure, 90+% filled LT5 is pretty good in my book. As I told Angela and Stef, our batch and our seniors could not even fill LT1 back in 2003.
If it's about pleasing the crowd, it was successful too. They obviously loved the A cappella groups, and the Amos solo show.
If it's about the logistics of things, it was rather successful too, save for a few (expected) hiccups here and there. Nothing too serious.
If it's about show the world that they could run a concert all by themselves, well they certainly did.
And if it's about the music?
People always like to say, "it doesn't matter what the end result is, so long as we've tried our best and enjoyed ourselves in the process".
Technically I can't disagree with that, if I want to remain "politically soccret", so to speak.
But really, people just seem to use it as a crutch.
The music wasn't fantastic. I don't think anyone will disagree with me on that. What worries me is that everyone seemed to be happy with their performance. Why is that? Are they all that easily contented? Teachers aside, is Ai Hooi so easily contented as well? I'm quite sure if I had been singing, I would not have been happy about the performance. At all.
This is why we will never match up to the standard of VJC, or ACJC, or VC. Because we are too easily contented with ourselves.
And I actually have alumni members saying "I'm interested in singing for Cantab, but I'm not really keen on coming for practices." I mean, really, you want to sing, but don't want to practice?
/boggle
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