My dog Offenbachs at Debussy Haydn round the Korner

Carl Friedrich Wagner

Soooo, I just came back from Meet the Music, which is the amazing and freakin' awesome thing where all these schools get to go to the Sydney Opera House and see the Sydney Symphony Orchestra (SSO) play all these incredible pieces, and tonight it was Wagner's The Ring of the Nibelung. You probably are just like, wait what is she talking about? 

WELL, let me explain. Do you know the Ride of the Valkyries? Cause if you don't your missing out. Anyway, basically, The Ring of the Nibelung is 20 (!) hours of music (spread over four different operas) and is based largely upon Norse mythology. There wasn't any singing tonight, and it sure wasn't 20 hours long, but it was still amazing.
The effort put into these shows is just insane. It was so loud and exhilarating and magnificent and insane and brilliant and loud and amazing and loud and loud but so so so good! Eight double basses, nine french horns, five trombones, a bagizzilion strings, and sooo much more. We were right behind the horns so we got the full blast, it was pretty insane. But the way it all just clicks together. It just makes me wonder, how can people write things like this? Take Beethoven for example, he was deaf for most of his career but still carried on. When he began to go deaf, he still had seven of his nine symphonies unfinished! What a ledgend, yeah?
Anyway, apart from MTM, I have another question. What are y'all who live in Sydney doing on the first of April? What's that? Nothing, you say? Oh, well, I can change that. If you are like me and get excited every single year for the Royal Easter Show, then this is for you. My school's Senior Stage Band, which I'm in, is playing there at night. So, perhaps, I think that you should all come and hear us! We're playing late, around dinner time if you want, but it will be a show you'll never ever forget, ha! So round up, round up, for maybe not the show of your life, but a damn good one that will totally be worth. You know want to!