10-19-2023
The piano concerto used the on-piano microphones and OH MAN DID I GET BLOWN OUT THERE!
So, sorry about that, will reduce my gain by at least 25% for the performance.
10-16-2023
10-9-2023
7:30 Alma Mater
- Focus on: Finale, XI, VII, IV
7:45 Rachmaninoff: tutti sections in all movements
- 1ST mvt
- Opening thru 5 bars after rehearsal 4
- Rehearsal 12 to end
- 2nd mvt:
- Opening thru 19
- 23 to 25
- 4th mvt
- Opening thru 28
- 32 – 14 after 36
- 38 to end
8:15 BREAK
8:40 Elgar
- Bits and pieces
- X, III, VII, V
- First run
NOTES:
1. To recap the beat pattern at the end of the Elgar Finale:
- Rehearsal 79-81: BIG 3 (conducting in 3, each beat = 1 measure)
- Rehearsal 81-four bars after 82: BIG 4 (conducting in 4, each beat = 1 measure)
- 5th bar of 82 to the end: BIG 2 (conducting in 2, each beat = 1 measure)
2. Alma Mater: another correction
10-2-2023
- 7:30 Enigma
- Focus on: Finale, XI, VII, IV
- 8:20 Rachmaninoff
- 1ST mvt, rehearsal 8 to end
- 4th mvt, Presto after rehearsal 33 to end
- Trombones and tuba are done for the night.
- 8:40 BREAK
- 9:00 Rachmaninoff
- – 3rd movement
- 9:20 Elgar
- Focus on: II, III, V, VI, XII
- NOTES:
- 1. To recap the beat pattern at the end of the Elgar Finale:
- Rehearsal 79-81: BIG 3 (conducting in 3, each beat = 1 measure)
- Rehearsal 81-four bars after 82: BIG 4 (conducting in 4, each beat = 1 measure)
- 5th bar of 82 to the end: BIG 2 (conducting in 2, each beat = 1 measure)
- 2. Alma Mater: another correction
- String parts, 2 measures before B, accent pattern should be:
9-25-2023
- 7:30 Morales Matos Alma Mater
- 8:00 Rachmaninoff, 3rd movement
- 8:30 BREAK (30 minutes)
- – The annual cookie break to welcome new members to our merry band
- 9:00 Elgar: focus on
- – Finale-Theme – 7
9-18-2023
- 7:30 Morales Matos Alma Mater
- 8:10 Elgar Enigma: back to front
- 8:30 BREAK
- 8:50 More Elgar
9-11-2023
- 7:30 Morales Matos Alma Mater
- 8:00 Elgar Enigma
- 8:30 BREAK
- 8:50 More Elgar
- 9:15 Rachmaninoff Concerto, 1st movement