Yep, I’m ready for this to be over, too. And, finally, here we are.
Thirty-three percent of the people came to a morning meeting I run. And then there were two morning shows to oversee in the studio. That was interrupted by a tour. Immediately after I handed off the prospective new faculty member to someone else the singing show people stepped up with the latest news.
Two of the 18 people won’t be singing. That’s just live programming. Something will happen. But it requires a few changes to the script. So I had to go through the thing I set up yesterday and remove two people, and all the references to numbers. (The seventh contest was now the sixth, and the 11 was now the ninth and so on.)
This also allowed us to change the conclusion of the show, which was good. It was going to be too complicated, and this made it simpler.
And then suddenly it was time to do the show.
The singers came from campuses across the state, at least three of them. They were all good. Some of them were really quite spectacular. Goosebumps were given twice.
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Some of the singers.
She sang Puccini.
I wish I had the chance to photograph the other 11, but, again, they were all quite talented and they gave the judges a lot to work with.
The best part of the show is listening to the professional artists being so kind to the younger singers. Everything was a dose of encouragement.
There were two technical issues, and the usual sort of adrenaline a live show brings while you’re trying to wrap it up. Most importantly, everyone seemed pleased.
Before we’d even struck the studio they were already asking us to do it again next year.
Second-most importantly, I left campus at 5:30 today.
After 50.5 hours, eight shows, a field shoot, a photo shoot and meetings, editing, rewriting, meetings, tour-giving, other meetings and toner-fighting, the week was mercifully done.
I’m going to sleep until Monday.
