It still feels very strange to be “done” with my part of the Christmas concert four days before its “premiere.”
Of course, most of the performances were “done” a little over a week ago.
It’s just such a contrast to all my deeply embedded concepts of what it means to perform — especially at Christmas time — as preparations intensify the closer you get to The Big Day. And then the big sigh of relief/release when it’s over.
I find it interesting that I feel almost the same range of feelings afterwards — relief, tiredness, excitement, and so forth — whether it’s “virtual” or “real.”
The fact is that tons of energy still goes out when it’s virtual, maybe even more in some ways.