The Life of Diana: Tsunami Concert in Kings Chapel

Orginially from Ohio, I went to the big city of New York for about 5 years (mainly for school), and now I am working towards my masters at Cambridge in England. I hope this website gives everyone a taste of what my life is like here... and if nothing else I think you will find it fun and entertaining!!

Sunday, February 20, 2005

Tsunami Concert in Kings Chapel

Tonight I went with Rachel, Ness, Shoop, Herb and Dani to the University of Cambridge Tsunami Appeal Concert in Kings Chapel. This was my first concert at Kings, and the acoustics are AMAZING. I have only been in the chapel one other time, and that was when David Marks' mother was here and I helped her to get in for free with my student id card. It was slightly drafty and cold inside, and afterwards we were told that the chapel is heated from heating in the floor... and it turns out that if you touch the floor, it is actually warm!! It must cost a fortune just to heat up the place, even though it was not very well heated. I took some photos before hand with the special night-photo option, so they came out a little blurred since I had no tripod, but you can get the general feel. Also, I somehow accidentally took some videos of the concert, but it is only audio really with VERY little visual since the camera was sitting in my lap. I think the videos with the choral singing is Zadok the Priest by Handel, and the ones with the orchestrated music is the Cello Concert by Dvorak. Although my personal favorite of the night was probably Jupiter by Holst... although I really enjoyed the cello concerto as well. Afterwards, we headed to the city centre to get fries... Ness had just ketchup on hers AWESOME... but rachel had the works... mayo, ketchup and vinegar... and the guy worked at the van of life kept asking her if she was crazy because Americans don't order vinegar!! Then we took a taxi back, because poor Rachel's feet were BLEEDING from her shoes, isn't that horrible?? Ohhh but the good news was that the Tsunami Concert raised about 5,000 pounds I think they said... isn't that amazing?? Nick (Magdalene Nick... I guess his name is Nicholas Clarke from the program??) and Lee Bassett (Dani's Lee) both sang in the CUMS Chorus... hehe CUMS apparently stands for Cambridge Univ Music Society... although when they call it cums, it sounds hilarious. The concert was really awesome... hehe try listening to the music clips. So after we got back to Churchill in a taxi, and after Rachel changed into new shoes, we went to the mcr for biscuits, hot chocolate and great conversation and a game of taboo... now off to bed.

hehe yup we were near the back in the 5 pound seats.

But honestly... I think we saw and heard fine!!

hehe this is the wall that Ness has decided she wants to climb.

Posted by: Diana / 2/20/2005 01:18:00 AM

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Sunday, February 20, 2005

Tsunami Concert in Kings Chapel