Author: ohsuzan
Date: 2015-02-03 04:44
OK, so, I am maybe looking for some reassurance that I am not completely crazy. Or, on the other hand, guidance toward self-improvement.
I play oboe and sometimes English horn in three orchestrae (all amateur, of varying quality), as well as in two quintets and two trios.
The issue is the demands of the director in the "middling" of my three orchestras. A capable and academically qualified person. Major American university context.
She spends what seems to me an inordinate amount of time during rehearsals going down the line of whichever section has most recently captured her attention, asking for this or that note or chord component to be played individually, commenting as she goes as to "flat", "sharp", or "on".
As a consciousness-raising technique, this might have legs. As a practical maneuver to get whatever objectionable effect corrected, maybe.
But, really. Does anyone actually expect that a note played a certain way at a certain time and then corrected, will actually be MORE likely to be correct the next time?
If I play a "G" above the staff dead in tune this time, does that predict how I will play it a half-bar later?
And what, in fact, constitutes being "in tune"?
Susan (who hasn't been here for a long time, but is an old-timer)
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