The Spring Festival Gala Audience: People who are looking for a ticket to go to the Spring Festival Gala. It's Chinese Spring Festival again. Each university are having their own Spring Festival Gala. I went to the one at Michigan Theater by University of Michigan. And it was not great. The show does not have a lot of traditional Chinese elements. And don't have enough monkeys, which was the animal for the year. The actors were great, they all really got talent. All the dancer really works hard especially for the elder group. But the language type show really gives me the feeling of the actors were trying too hard to make the audience laugh. It's kind of like saying:" Come. Look at me. I'm so funny." The other thing that the show need to work on is that the management of the audience. None of the tickets have seats numbers on them. So every one were crowed at the gate. There's no line what so ever. Everyone just rush into the theater and try to get the best seat. And the results are there's a lot of empty seats between peoples. But all those people who want to sit with their friends can not find a seat. So, I really hope the Spring Festival Gala group at the University of Michigan can work on those things and bring on a better show next year.

Solo ensemble festival Audience: anyone who are learning an instrument and want to get advice from professionals in Ann Arbor. Yesterday, I went to the district 12 solo ensemble festival at Pioneer High School. I played 2 trio with me friends and a solo. The trio we played were called Song of The Watchman and Entr'acte. I really like these two pieces they are slow and both has lots of dynamic changes. Both piece was not hard for individual players and it was easy put up together, but it is hard to express the music, especially for Entr'acte. We really have a hard time to understand what the composer what to show the audience with that piece, but we find how we want to play the piece and we got a I rating, which was the highest rating. The solo I did was called Nocturne. It was a much harder piece compare to the trios. And it was a pretty long piece. I was really out of breath at the end of the piece and get a 2 rating for it. So how does the whole thing works? First pick a piece that you like to play and submit a request form to AAPS music department. Next, practice your music, remember it must be longer than 2:00 minutes. Then you will get a time for the solo or ensemble time. And will have a section number as well. When the date for solo ensemble festival arrived. Go to the location of the event and look for the section number. The first room is the section number plus W. For example the section number I got was 10, so I went to 10W first. W Stands for warm up, every player will have 30 mins warm up time before performance. After warm up, there will be a student to show the way to the next room, which was the section number plus P. For example !0P. P stand for performance. There will be one judge in the performance room. He or she will be the judge and will give out the score. Each player will be graded on five different aspect. And will have the final grade from the average of the five. And the score sheet with judge's comments will be sent by mail. Those comments were really useful to me. And it really tells me what I should work on more. And what I was doing great.