April 22, 2004 at 10:28 AM

Saw "The Pianist" at my flutist friend Maureen's dorm last night. Wow, now I know why all of my Serbian/Croatian friends loved it.

Had a bad attack of the guilty-asian-child-sydrome at my last gig in Rome. After dress rehearsal, which is the same day as the concert, the woman who'd gotten me the gig told me, "You weren't playing all the notes for that section in the (insert symphony). You really need to practice that, you're supporting the whole second violin section." A pang shot through me, and while the rest of the orchestra got drunk (what else is there to do in the pulsing heart of Rome, Georgia?), I spent 2-1/2 hours working on the harder sections of two of the pieces we were performing.

I could argue that they had only given me the music the night before, but...bah.