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General Discussion => Music Talk and Showcase => General Discussion => Topic started by: mapar007 on March 17, 2010, 10:20:03 am
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Hey guys,
'Bout a month ago I auditioned for L'Orfeo (Claudio Monteverdi; the piece is widely regarded as the first real opera, it was written around 1600), in Antwerp. Finally got the feedback: I MADE IT!! Jabadabadoo!
I'll be one of the ensemble singers: tenor for me.
By the way, the theater house organizing the production is actually one of the more 'famous' ones (in Belgium): check transparant.be
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that's some great news! good luck!
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Congratulations!
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wow congrats!
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You live in Belgium? That's cool 'cuz I live near Lille (or Rijsel as the Belgians call it :P ). I might even go to that opera ;D.
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Btw NecroF-_-ckk lives in belgium too, but Idk how close to Mapar and France
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That's pretty cool! Congratz! ;D
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Necrof-_-ckk says he lives in Ninove, which is close to Brussels IIRC, and can't be more than 50 km from where I live (Mechelen). The performances will be in Antwerp ('bout 25 km from Mechelen) and Bruges. (Shadow could reach Bruges in an acceptable amount of time :P )
Anyway, thanks for the congratulations.
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Aaaah I see. It would be fun if one day there was some calc convention/meeting in Belgium or the like. Back in 2005 some MaxCoderz members met in the Netherlands. 3 lived close and the other was on a world trip. I personally met AaroneusTheGreat in person during his french class summer trip in Montreal, while he did a small trip to Quebec City, and I think Super_Speler and Magicdawn both goes at the same school.
Anyway good luck with your opera!
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Belgium? Het gat van de wereld? I'd be great if I still lived to see a calc convention there... :D
I guess it would be real fun. (I know some people in the Netherlands calc community, but even there we couldn't agree on a location. The two admins wanted Groningen, but for most of the others (and all Belgians) it was really far, since it's all up north)
I know, distances are relative. You Americans/Russians/Canadians/... probably don't care about a few hundred miles, but if you grow up in a country as small as Belgium, well.. :P
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I know, distances are relative. You Americans/Russians/Canadians/... probably don't care about a few hundred miles, but if you grow up in a country as small as Belgium, well.. :P
Yeah. My family would go on 8 hour one way (16 hour round trip) weekend trips through 3 states, by leaving on Friday and coming back on Sunday. :)
Is 8 hours really far for Europeans?
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I think the thing is that in Europe, countries are so small compared to North American ones, and because of borders and passport annoyances, people are less used to travel far.
I personally never travelled far, though. The farthest I went to is 250 Km away, in Montreal area, to La Ronde
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Yeah that's pretty far for them. My dad went to visit relatives in the Netherlands when he was younger and he went to the capital city for the day and they thought he was crazy because of how "far away" it was. I'm not going to say how far I've had to travel by car x.x
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..., and because of borders and passport annoyances, people are less used to travel far.
The borders in Europe are open since the foundation of the EU, which is about 50 to 60 years ago, so that shouldn't be a problem. It is true that countries are so small, and certainly so compact, that you hardly need to travel far to 'fulfill your needs', so to speak. By the way, Belgium has some nature too. (Ardennen, if you care)
Last scouting trip we went to the Luxembourg province (which borders on the country bearing the same name), and came over one day after the start of the weekend. We (that's me and a girl who also came over later) were really astonished how 'long' it took: 3h. In a country as small as Belgium, that IS far :P
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Nice :P
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Ah, so I see. To put in perspective, from my house in Michigan to the Canadian border takes about 3 hours too. ;D
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hey btw did that occur yet or is it happening soon in the near future?
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August, and beginning of september.
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ooh I thought it was sooner x.x oh well remind us when it's soon in case ^^
Btw will it be recorded?
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I honestly don't know. Maybe the Belgian radio will come over, so you can listen on klara.be.
Wait a minute, no wishful thinking...
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mhmm ok x.x
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MEGA necropost, but whatever, it's my topic :P
The guys from Transparant uploaded a summary of the first concert on YouTube. Watch here:
Note: as this is a summary, the video and sound don't match. This is on purpose: images from throughout the whole concert are used, while only two pieces of music are presented.
I'm the guy wearing a blue shirt that occasionally plays the recorder, and sings. (NOT the guy with the blue bowler hat, although our costumes are somewhat alike)
Note 2: this is only a semiprofessional choir and orchestra, so don't get all too high expectations.
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Cool, I'll listen soon! I saw some vids of a show or something on your Facebook a while ago and it was nice
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That's really cool. I think I saw which one you are. Did you have shortish hair?
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MEGA necropost, but whatever, it's my topic :P
this is nothing compared to what I did with the pixel art topic. :P
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MEGA necropost, but whatever, it's my topic :P
this is nothing compared to what I did with the pixel art topic. :P
Which one? O.o Also it can't beat my Cemetech and UTI 5 years necroposts :P (the Cemetech one is pretty recent)
Also Mapar007 I watched the video but it appeared to be the exact same as on Facebook. I watched some parts again, though. The video quality is also pretty good
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the one about the pixel art contests from yesterday. :P
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Oh ok. It isn't as bad as that guy in the news section earlier today, though :P
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Yeah, I know it's the same as on Facebook, but I posted anyway for people who don't have acces to FB and/or are not in my friend list. (-18 protection shields my profile from strangers)
And yes, I have short hair, and blue eyebrows in the vid, but you probably won't see that.