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Re: phones in rehearsal

Author: davyd
Date: 2019-05-16 07:28

In the community band I'm in, the conductor writes the playlist for the evening on the whiteboard, and several players take pictures of it. I'm informed that this is because of their vision difficulties: they can't read what's on the board, but they can enlarge the picture and read the playlist that way.

In the community orchestra I'm in, it's not unusual to see wind and brass players on phones or Kindles while the conductor and string players work out bowings.

These kinds of issues with electronic devices are not new. I used to play for community theatrical productions. Once we hit the second or third weekend of the run and players knew their parts, it wasn't unusual to see players plugged into portable radios or TVs, watching ballgames.

What can you do? You can't fire volunteers.

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