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Rehearsals, both good and bad...

October 15, 2005 at 10:49 PM

Yesterday I had two rehearsals. One was the rehearsal for the orchestra I'm in. We've got a concert next week, so we were basically running through everything.
It was a fairly good rehearsal, in that we got everything that we needed done and it sounds pretty good. It was bad in that I was totally shot afterwards. We finished off with a piece by Delius, "On hearing the first cuckoo of spring" which is a really quiet piece which requires so much control that my body was absolutely spent. I had to cancel my student's lesson that day because there was no way I would be in any shape to give a lesson.

The other rehearsal I had was much nicer. It was the first run through of my composition, Instinctus et Magnus (which I have talked about previously in these blogs). It went pretty well. Very well, I might say. Two sections that we need to work on to put together, the beginning and the end. Apart from that it's sounding pretty good.

I'm hoping to record it and place it on my website, however I think I need to get permission of the performers, which means I'll need to do some research into what is neccessary to ask them to sign.