May 3, 2005 at 1:39 PM

We're in production week this week. Well, that's what it used to be called. Basically it was a week where people who had rehearsals could rehearse all day for their up-coming production and not have to worry about missing out on classes. Those that weren't involved had a week to catch up on work they hadn't quite completed.

Unfortunately (in some respects) they have changed that this year. We still get a week of no classes, but instead those not involved in rehearsals have other things to do. For me, we have chamber music rehearsals 3 days a week plus a concert on friday. I'm involved in a flute trio - Flute, Violin and Piano. Today the pianist had the music, and he didn't turn up, so S and I practiced some Telemann, of which we both had our parts. It was quite lovely, although we hadn't liked it at first, it has been rather easy to put together and we should be able to get it together, hopefully with piano, for friday.

After about an hour and a half of rehearsal, S went off to his other group, and I went and had some lunch. I found some other string players in the Caf who were in the middle of a b******* session about UWA. I enthusiastically joined in. We've resolved to try and get our own String class started at waapa so that we don't have to go there instead. THere are now enough of us at waapa to merit a string class, so hopefully we can get it started.

I got my bow re-haired over the weekend. it was horrid to play with my spare bow. I'm looking at getting a new bow sometime this year, so my regular bow will become my spare which won't be too bad. But it was nice to pick it up this afternoon and go and practice for a bit. Practiced my Suk, and technical work, and just went through my Bach and Mozart to make sure I at least touched them. Also worked on the Telemann.

I then did some work on my String Orchestra music. Got the viola out.
Yes, I did say viola. I'm playing the viola because I have played it before. When I say "played it before" really I kinda tried to play it and worked really hard to quit from reading in treble and stay in alto. my intonation wasn't all that good. However, this evening, my sight-reading was pretty good, most of the time. Which means this thing might actually work out.

I like the tone of the viola - it's so rich. I know it's way to small for the notes it reaches, but meh, I still think it sounds good. I'm even contemplating buying one one day (after I've bought my own violin that is). I figure it would be useful to have, just in case. You never know.

Well, I think that's just about it for today, I'm off to watch some TV.

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