December Concert
This was it. The night that everyone had been practicing for months for. All of our hard work will be projected and shown off on this very night. Everything that we have worked for. As we entered the high school my heart was pounding. We entered the room where we were supposed to wait, and seeing friendly faces calmed my nerves a little bit. We shared small talk and discussed how nervous we all were, as if hearing someone else admit they were just as nervous as you would make you feel better. We all walked out and took our seats as the pre-music started. Marlee and Jessica performed beautiful peices on the piano. You could tell how much they cared about what they were playing because you could feel the energy radiating off of them. I wish I could say that I payed attention to the other pre-music, but I couldn't seem to focus on anything. I was replaying every song and dance move over and over again in my head to make sure it was all there. I didn't trust myself enough to rely on muscle memory. I knew that I had down the dance moves and I knew that I had down all the notes but I couln't seem to think about anything other than the room full of people that would be watching my every move. I took several deep breaths before we had to take the stage.
When it was the choirs turn to sing, we all stood up (as calmly as we could) and proceeded to make our way to the stage. The few steps to get up onto stage seemed much larger than they did before. My body felt almost ready to explode from the adrenaline that was flowing through my veins, but I kept myself contained and focused. Tiger choir took the stage first, then Black and Gold followed. We all joined as a group to sing our first song. My eyebrows shot up and I tried to hold myself with the best posture possible. I opened my jaw and the notes somehow flooded out of my mouth by memory. I watched Mrs G as she gave us reashuring looks. The first song went by quickly, as Tiger choir left the stage to go back to their seats as Black and Gold stayed to perform first. One of my favorite songs that they performed was The Bear Necessities. Almost evryone was bobbing up and down with excitement and had great facial expression. I spotted some people who were either extremely nervous or didn't want to be there, or maybe both, but the majority of the choir did a wonderful job expressing emotion and projecting their voices to fill the entire room. They sounded fantastic and they were perfectly on key. I could tell that they were bouncing on their toes and really having fun with their songs. They made me want to get up and start singing along with them, which is exactly what Mrs G wanted them to sing like.
Time flew by watching them perform, because you could tell they were having fun. Soon enough it was Tiger Choir's time to perform. The lights shone brightly, blinding us temporaraly. Everyone was smiling and eager to perform. The music started and muscle memory took over. We fought to keep up our facial expression. When I felt the energy slip a little, I bounced on my toes more. I thought that our group did very well, but we could have gave it more. We know what we can do in the classroom and in my opinion we could have done better. I felt like we could have put more energy into the pieces we sang.
This critique is rather hard for me, because since I participatied in the performance, it is dificult to really judge the group without being too hard on myself. Many of my grandma's friends (who love to come and watch all of our performances) tells me that we sounded fantastic for a middle school choir. I felt like I could have done more to bring the group up. Being in the back row, it is hard to hear the rest of the group so you feel like you are singing alone. I knew I was not singing alone, so I tried to sing louder but I kept backing off because I thought I was too loud. When we were done performing I knew I could have done better and I promised myself I would give my everything while performing for Tiger Pride.
The energy that was radiating through my body while Tiger Pride was waiting to perform was exhilarating. I had to bounce up and down on my feet to keep calm. I closed my eyes and took several deep breaths waiting for the cue. The second the music started I knew it was game time. I stuck on a smile and stepped out into the intimidating stage lights. With each dance move I tried to be fast and smooth. About halfway into our performance, I noticed that the group should be lower. I looked into the blinging lights and could feel the energy radiating off of the group. When bows came, I realized that we were almost done. Our first performance was almost over already. I smiled bigger, and our row quickly hustled off stage. Once backstage, people started jumping up and down and celebrating. I knew we had to keep quiet because the audiance could still hear us, but the feeling inside me was unforgetable. It felt like déjà vu from last year. I feel like for our very first time performing that show infront of an audiance, it was very satisfying. I know that I tried really hard to put my everything into the show, but I had some slip up moments. There were times where I could feel that I lost my face, but I pulled it back up in a matter of seconds. I tried really hard and I think that my teamates tried really hard also. I know for a fact that we are in way better shape than we were at last years December Concert. I am very proud of the groups that I am in and I know that from here we can only go up.
If I was watching our performance as a bystander, I would probably rate our performance a 7 out of 10 stars. I think we did very well for our skill level that we are on, but I know we did not put everything we had into this performance. We tried hard, but we could have tried just a little bit harder to really turn our "that was really good" show into "wow that was amazing".
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