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Re: Stay at Home Things to Do

Author: Ralph Katz
Date: 2020-03-29 17:26

I am pounding scales every day. This is not all that happy an endeavor; it went best last week after raking leaves for an hour. Without performance opportunities, this is as good as it gets. Like everyone else, all my concerts are cancelled. The program for our community orchestra's May concert contained "Pictures at an Exhibition", "Sorcerer's Apprentice", and our concerto competition winner. I feel sorry for that kid, but we plan to make every effort to work with him and get his performance in next year. Those two orchestra pieces are particularly difficult for me and are still in my daily practice regimen. This has been enough of a daily challenge so far, but probably in another week I will start looking at new things to work on.

Our congregational music director loaned me an arrangement book of liturgical music for 3 voices and keyboard, and I have them all setup now for wind trio fl/cl/bn. Not sure if they will ever get used, but it was good practice familiarizing myself with Noteflight. Now she tells me they are 2 more volumes, but this will have to wait at least a week. I have spent a lot of time in front of the computer with multiple ham radios going.

My wife is a flutist and retired school music teacher. Even she is running etudes a couple of times a day now. A couple of other teachers we know who don't generally have a lot of practice time are doing so now, as well as posting Facebook Live performances, some playing with their cute children.

Yesterday Mark Dover accompanied his wife Lotte on Facebook Live doing “Someone to Watch Over Me” and I can’t tell you how great it was to see them making music.

Post Edited (2020-03-29 17:30)

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