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Re: First Time Doubler Needs Help!

Author: oboeidaho
Date: 2007-03-31 14:42

Playing those old scores is a real pain; the Peter Pan scores we got last year looked like someones scratch paper from the recycle bin. But I suppose if they can get the rental fees without bothering to clean them up...

I would definately follow up on the cd or dvd to check tempi, you may be surprised at how fast a lot of that is! Although a lot will depend on the conductor and dancers, we took everything at least as fast as the movie. Be Our Guest was another quickie - always got a standing o for that one!

I think there were two songs not in the show, one is There's Been a Change in Me - which is just gorgeous; the eh comes in on the held notes (of Belle) and I'm getting goosebumps just thinking about it! I think there was a little oboe solo at the end of that one, I know there was a change somewhere. Before the Wolf chase there is a really quick change to eh, I had to leave out some oboe measures because I wanted to cover the really cool low eh part.

Right this minute I'm doing Carousel - there was a part with a change but no rests and I had it all planned to leave out the two bars of mostly whole notes in the eh to prepare for the little woodwind flurry on the oboe; only to find out the whole note was ONLY me! So I leave out the oboe thing (all the winds play anyway, and my part was not unique). Yesterday I got to the theater and discovered I had FORGOTTEN my oboe reed case - had the eh case - but obviously a HUGE problem. I had taken it out to wet the reeds before I came to SAVE TIME. hahahaha I live more than 40 minutes away and there are no oboe players in town (except my own students). Needless to say, I was freaking out (quietly). AND I carpooled so I didn't even have a car! Fortunately my friend let me borrow her car and I went to the TINY music store and thank goodness they had a few oboe reeds (I had way more in my case than they had for sale!) So I bought a nasty reed (the only one they had other than the even nastier plastic ones - sorry Dutchy, I just can't go there!) the type I won't allow my students to buy...and I went tearing back 15 minutes after showtime. By a MIRACLE there was mic problems and they hadn't started!!! So I was able to get in without anyone but the orchestra realizing what happened, but let me tell you I was having an adrenaline rush! The reed was really easy to respond but extremely unstable - but I'm not complaining - it got me through the afternoon. Was never so relived to have my own reeds back for the night show. What a nightmare!

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