i had a fun girls night out last night. dinner was with phoebe, jeanette, sri, sandra & aileen at perche'no where we ate yummy italian food. then we walked over to the oliver mccaw hall where susan joined us to see the pacific northwest ballet's version of carmina burana. quite interesting and just as i would have visualized the choral piece---starting off very raw and then evolving into a frolicking dance with lots of colors..and then to a harem-like setting. overall, i loved it; however, i wasn't very impressed by the seattle choral company. i felt like this piece needed twice the amount of voices that were present. the sopranos were weak, the tenors were overbearing with individual voices sticking out too much. i was especially disappointed by the tonality of the sopranos during tempus est iocundum with the recurring "o o o...tortus floreo.." passage. i'm curious how well the choral company could see the conductor down below. in the beginning, i felt like there were many synchronization problems between the voices and the instruments. hmm. otherwise, the soloists had magnificent voices. overall, truly a performance that i enjoyed. i'm just picky with voices ;-) after the show, sri, sandra, aileen & i got a drink together at the sitting room until it closed. so much fun!



i haven't done as much prep work for my party tomorrow night as i had hoped this week. eeks. need to take a trip to costco tonight.