Klarinet Archive - Posting 001257.txt from 2000/10

From: alevin@-----. Levin)
Subj: Re: [kl] Call me Maestro....
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2000 14:31:51 -0400

Walter:

1. It's not a concert - its a rehearsal.

2. You know the music better than you admit. Think back to other
rehearsals for messy passages and work on them. In fact, do a few of them
in a movement - then, when the musicians are sick of short passages, do the
entire movement. then move on to another movement. Save the least
problematic movement for last. Give the orchestra a good feeling to go
home with.

3. No matter what, those musicians who respect you now will still respect
you. Those who don't aren't going to change their minds - ESPECIALLY if
you do a good job. Only a handful will care - and that may or may not
include the blond in the second violins you secretly want to impress.

4. Worry about clear downbeats. You'll never match the internal cues of
the regular conductor, so just do what works.

5. Look sincere. Don't lecture. Don't stab anyone.

Allen

At 11:39 PM 10/25/00 EDT, you wrote:
>I have a new avocation.....or descended to new levels of
Hades........depends
>on your point of view.
>
>Our resident Conductor for the Skokie Valley Symphony, Dr. Donald Chen
>(Roosevelt University, North Shore Choral Society), has to miss a rehearsal
>tomorrow night.
>
>Guess who got asked to take the rehearsal........and who was foolish enough
>to accept.
>
>So tomorrow night, I'm leading a full orchestra rehearsal of Brahms Second
>Symphony and the Double Concerto.
>
>Been ransacking old drawers looking for my baton!
>
>Wish me luck...I'll need it.
>
>Walter ..... who is frantically studying scores........how the heck do you
>read a horn part in E? ....oh heck, get out the Piston Orchestration
>book......where's my Elizabeth Green book........should I subdivide the
>beginning of the second mvt......HELPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPp
>
>
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