One Down, Two To Go

I just finished my first of three performances and it went well. I'm looking forward to completing these and starting the Beethoven quartet. I'm also looking forward to this next weekend when we will be performing a side-by-side concert with the Cleveland Orchestra. We each sit with a member of the orchestra and perform two pieces, Capriccio Espangnol by Rimsky-Korsakov and The Three-Cornered Hat by Manuel de Falla. We (Kent/Blossom chamber orchestra) will also be playing Schubert's 3rd symphony and Ravel's Le Tombeau de Couperin by our selves that same night.

We had to leave our dorm today because of a fire alarm going off. It went off around 3:00 and our performance was at 3:30 so most of us were just getting ready to change into our concert dress but few of us had. Apparently someone on the third floor likes their food to be really well done. It wasn't major and we were able to get back into the dorm at 3:25. We hurriedly got dressed and were able to start the performance "fashionably" late (whatever that means).

My roommate from Bulgaria wonders why we say that the "alarm went off." Wouldn't it make more sense to say "went on?"